Re: LP 2.6 on Win98 -- question on Ghostview & on PS file size

[Mats Bengtsson]

It certainly works on Win XP for me (i.e. I do get a PDF file as
well), but apparently not for Sacha who also uses Win XP.

   /Mats

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> > As noted in two previous posts, LilyPond 2.6 for Windows produces
> > a  .PS  file, not a  .PDF  file.
>
>
> This is an unfortunate bug, that should have been solved in one of the
> many 2.5 test releases.
>
>
> > A) To use Ghostview 4.7 plus Ghostscript 8.51, should I try to find all
> > the font files scattered throughout the LilyPond distribution and copy
> > them to a subdirectory which I will then add to Ghostview's Include List
> > for Ghostscript? This way I would wind up having two Fontmap files, one
> > Fontmap that came with the Ghostview 4.7 distribution (from the WISC.EDU
> > Ghostscript mirror), and another Fontmap that came with LilyPond; can I
> > merge these two, manually eliminating duplications and conflicts?
>
>
> No, the feta fonts are embedded, just set GS_FONTPATH to c:/windows/fonts.
>
>
> > B) The .PS file produced by LilyPond is very large (684K), and perusing
> > blocks.  Why should these fonts have to be
> > embedded in the  .PS  file, since the 3 font-files in question exist (in
> > LilyPond subdirectories) and therefore could be referenced (one way or
> > another).
>
>
> We keep improving and adding to the LilyPond fonts all the time, so
> the output must be self contained.  The PS is intermediate anyway.
>
> Jan.

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