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Re: Lilypond not rendering PDF on Mac
From: |
Michael Hendry |
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Re: Lilypond not rendering PDF on Mac |
Date: |
Tue, 8 Jan 2019 22:18:10 +0000 |
> On 8 Jan 2019, at 17:32, Stephen Wilkinson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Sorry, not sure if I've posted this twice
>
> I've recently installed Lilypond (2.18.2) onto a new Mac (OS X 14.2), but
> have run into a problem at the beginning. Lilypond hangs when rendering a
> file at the 'Converting to .pdf.' stage.
>
> I've tried this both with the default test file and scores I've already got,
> and both through and without Frescobaldi. I've got it rendering to SVGs as a
> workaround, but Frescobaldi's handling of them isn't quite as fluent, so it
> would be nice to be able to make PDFs as normal. Any ideas? Thanks
Hi, Stephen.
This is all sounding very familiar - I switched to Mac in 2013, and I’m sorry
to say I solved this or a similar problem without taking note of how I did it.
I think it may have had to do with the installation of (the right version of?)
GhostScript.
I would suggest you check that you can run Lilypond in command-line mode using
the “-ps” switch to generate a PostScript file.
See: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/usage.pdf
If that works, and inspection of the resulting .ps file with a text editor
looks credible, the conversion of PS to PDF is your problem.
You should already have a copy of “ps2pdf” installed, along with lilypond.
Try entering...
which ps2pdf
…on the command-line and see what you get.
On my Mac I get:
| => which ps2pdf
ps2pdf is /usr/local/bin/ps2pdf
ps2pdf is /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ps2pdf
ps2pdf is /usr/local/bin/ps2pdf
I’m not sure how lilypond finds ps2pdf (or equivalent) when it converts a PS to
a PDF file, but if you have a working copy of ps2pdf on your Mac it needs to be
in the path that lilypond searches for executables.
Sorry not to be more specific, hope this helps.
Regards,
Michael