Re: Maximum ghostscript input filesize? Adjustable parameter?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Trevor Baca wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'd like to introduce myself and then ask a question. My name's Trevor
> Baca and I'm a composer working in Austin, Texas. I just started using
> LilyPond for the very first time at the beginning of July, and I'm
> already completelly blown away. I model notation algorithmically in
> Mathematica and, for this reason, I've been working in SCORE for a
> couple of years due to the availability of SCORE's cleartext .pmx
> input format. But I can't even begin to express how much better
> LilyPond's input format is! I wish I had discovered LilyPond about
> three years ago ... And then there's the fact that Lily's output just
> *looks* so good ...

thanks!

> And thank you, everybody, for the snippets in the snippet repository
> and for the examples in the regression battery. Learning's been a
> breeze because of the tons of examples and the fact that the docs read
> great.


> B. Simply calling "open test.ps" on Lily's ps file (which summons
> Apple's pdf creator) works fine!
>
> So I suppose the work-around is simply to have Lily bypass the call to
> gs altogether and always use Apple's "open" utility to create the pdf,
> at least for this large file ... but two questions:

That surprises me; Apple's PS to PDF convertor consistently crashes on 
Lily's PS files - which is also why MacOS version by default erases them.

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