Re: ps to pdf conversion fails

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Orm Finnendahl" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 10:00 AM
Subject: ps to pdf conversion fails


> Hi,
>
> a file I could typeset yesterday now fails on the conversion to pdf
> with the following error:
>
> `gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=841.89 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=1190.55 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 
>  -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="./schnell-pno01.pdf" 
>  -c .setpdfwrite -f "schnell-pno01.ps"' failed (256)
> error: failed files: 
> "/home/orm/work/kompositionen/2kl/lilypond/schnell-pno01.ly"
>
> The postscript file looks fine and I can't even remember having
> changed anything in the source (I even did a couple of undos until I
> was sure it had worked before). Is there any way to detect the
> problem? Maybe there is a strange mistyped control character
> somewhere, but I have no clue how to track down the problem.
>
> --
> Orm

This normally occurs when it's not possible to delete the previous version 
of the PDF - often because it's open in a PDF viewer.  Try deleting the old 
version and see if that fixes it.


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Phil Holmes