lilypond 2.6.0 on win98SE makes ps but not pdf file (but thinks it does)

[Dave and Laura Robertson]

Dear Lilypond developers:
I have recently downloaded LilyPond 2.6.0 for Windows from your website,
and have found two oddities (may not be bugs??) in its operation, that you
may be interested in, as the behavior is not explained or noted in the
html file containing the user's manual.  (This document is only titled
Lilypond the Music Typesetter (for version 2.6.1).
I am running Windows 98 Second Edition (no, that's not the first oddity),
and have the lilypond\usr\bin directory in my path.  I then shelled out
to the dos box to run it.
Oddity 1: when typing "lilypond --help", the prompt simply reappears
with no output from the app.  Is the help info being sent out somewhere
else?
Oddity 2: Still shelled out to dos, I copied the Welcome.ly sample program
(after editing the version number at the end from 2.5.25 to 2.6.0) to dave.ly
in my working directory c:\work, and then typed "lilypond dave.ly".
The app appeared to run the sample ok, and when done, the log contained:
  # -*-compilation-*-
  Processing `dave.ly'
  Parsing...
  Interpreting music... [2]
  Preprocessing graphical objects...
  Calculating line breaks...
  Calculating page breaks...
  Layout output to `dave.ps'...
  Converting to `dave.pdf'...
and my directory now contained dave.ps, but not dave.pdf.
So I ran ghostview (gsview32.exe version 4.4, with gs 8.00) and loaded
dave.ps, and got an error display, as listed below.
A lot of the info in this dump seems to be about the century schoolbook
font, but I have that font in ghostview, so I don't know what it's
complaining about.  (Also I am not including the .ps output file in
this email since it is about 700k, but I have it if you are interested).
After closing the error info window, the image was not displayed, but I
found that even so, I could make a pdf output file using gsview's
Convert command (using the pdfwrite device).
Then I loaded the pdf file into gsview and it displayed fine.  It also
displayed fine using acrobat reader.
Also, I found I could use Ghostscript's ps2pdf batch file to make a pdf
file.
So really, the fact that Lilypond was not able to go from ps to pdf is
not a hindrance, but still I'm wondering what's wrong, since the
"out of box experience" did not complete, using the main sample file
as input.
One other thing could perhaps be a clue: prior to this version, I have
used Lilypond 1.6.8 under Cygwin (entirely different directories of
course), but could there be some strange leftovers somewhere in the
registry that might confuse the new Lilypond or Ghostscript?  I searched
the registry without finding anything significant, and also changed the
directory name of cygwin to xcygwin, but to no effect.
Not really knowing what's going on, of course, I would suggest that if
these two oddities are commonly seen under windows, you might note them
somewhere along with workarounds.
Other than these two very minor issues, I'm glad to be able to use your
program directly, without cygwin in the way.
Thank you for your wonderful efforts in producing Lilypond, especially
the windows port.  I know that windows users are more or less used to
sitting in the back of the bus when it comes to unix apps on their
platforms, so I was pleased to find your windows version on the web.
Very truly yours,
Dave Robertson
address@hidden

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GSVIEW32 error display:

GSview 4.4 2003-04-04
Unknown in Comments section at line 7:
  %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font CenturySchL-Bold
Unknown in Comments section at line 8:
  %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font CenturySchL-Roma
Unknown in Comments section at line 9:
  %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font PFAEmmentaler-20
Unknown in Prolog section at line 14:
  %%Title: CenturySchL-Bold
Unknown in Prolog section at line 15:
  %%CreationDate: Fri Nov 22 10:58:25 2002
Unknown in Prolog section at line 16:
  %%Creator: frob
Unknown in Prolog section at line 17:
  %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font CenturySchL-Bold
Unknown in Prolog section at line 27:
  %%EndComments
Unknown in Prolog section at line 3699:
  %%Title: CenturySchL-Roma
Unknown in Prolog section at line 3700:
  %%CreationDate: Fri Nov 22 10:58:15 2002
Unknown in Prolog section at line 3701:
  %%Creator: frob
Unknown in Prolog section at line 3702:
  %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font CenturySchL-Roma
Unknown in Prolog section at line 3712:
  %%EndComments
Unknown in Prolog section at line 7319:
  %%DocumentSuppliedResources: font PFAEmmentaler-20
Unknown in Prolog section at line 7320:
  %%Title: PFAEmmentaler-20
Unknown in Prolog section at line 7321:
  %%Version: @TOPLEVEL_VERSION@
Unknown in Prolog section at line 7322:
  %%CreationDate: Mon Jun 27 13:53:39 2005
Unknown in Prolog section at line 7323:
  %%Creator: Jan Nieuwenhuizen,,,
Unknown in Prolog section at line 7332:
  %%EndComments

DSC Information
At line 7347:
   /Notice (This font is distributed under the GNU General Public License. As a 
special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and embed 
this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this font does 
not by itself cause th
Lines in DSC documents must be shorter than 255 characters.
GPL Ghostscript 8.15 (2004-09-22)
Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Displaying DSC file C:/work/dave.ps
Displaying page 1
%GSVIEW_PDF_MARK: /ANN /Subtype /Link /Action -dict- /Border Error: /typecheck 
in --length--
Operand stack:
   --nostringval--   Rect   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   0.0   0.0   0.0 
  4.98132   0   0
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false 
  1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   
%oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   1   --nostringval--   
%repeat_continue   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1123/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:124/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: No such file or directory
--- Begin offending input ---
 div scale
  /CenturySchL-Roma  findfont 3.865234375 scalefont setfont
 /emdash glyphshow
 grestore } place-box
070.0061 -163.0777 { gsave 1 output-scale div 1 output-scale div scale
  /CenturySchL-Roma  findfont 3.865234375 scalefont setfont
 /w glyphshow
 /w glyphshow
 /w glyphshow
 /period glyphshow
 /l glyphshow
 /i glyphshow
 /l glyphshow
 /y glyphshow
 /p glyphshow
 /o glyphshow
 /n glyphshow
 /d glyphshow
 /period glyphshow
 /o glyphshow
 /r glyphshow
 /g glyphshow
 grestore } place-box
} stop-system
showpage
--- End offending input ---
file offset = 0
gsapi_run_string_continue returns -101

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