RE: Lilypond not working on Win7 sp1

[James Lowe]

Hello,

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)Behalf Of Colin Campbell
)Sent: 22 March 2011 13:07
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)Subject: Re: Lilypond not working on Win7 sp1
)
)On 11-03-22 05:40 AM, James Lowe wrote:
)> Robbie (and Bugsquad!)
)>
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)> )Behalf Of Robbie Rousseau
)> )Sent: 22 March 2011 00:07
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)> )Subject: Re: Lilypond not working on Win7 sp1
)> )
)> )The first line works just fine. But the second line throws the same
)> error. In )my existing LP files it's failing when I use the
)> \ChordNames markup. If I )just use \chordmode it works, but not when
)I
)> start using the ChordNames )stuff.
)> )
)>
)> --
)>
)> Thanks for the clarification, it is more than just \ChordNames - in my
)> case it was when I used \sans but also some other specific markups
)> that I was unable to precisely define (\sans was the simplest to
)> report)
)>
)> I had opened this as a bug
)>
)> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1562
)>
)> However when I tried to reproduce this on a clean install I could not and
)I thought I was going mad,  but it was only when you said 'SP'1 that a light
)went on in my head!
)>
)> I had forgotten that I had installed SP1 on these two machines a few
)> weeks back (I had the RC1 installed), I have literally just finished
)> installing the released version of SP1 on my clean installations and
)> have indeed reproduced this with my simple example
)>
)> I also get
)>
)> # -*-compilation-*-
)> Processing `C:/Users/dcsw/Desktop/blah.ly.ly'
)> Parsing...
)> Interpreting music...
)> Preprocessing graphical objects...
)> Finding the ideal number of pages...
)> Fitting music on 1 page...
)> Drawing systems...
)> Layout output to `/Users/dcsw/Desktop/blah.ly.ps'...
)> Converting to `/Users/dcsw/Desktop/blah.ly.pdf'...
)> `(gs -q -dNOSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28
)> -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -
)dBATCH
)> -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -
)sOutputFile=/Users/dcsw/Desktop/blah.ly.pdf
)> -c.setpdfwrite -f/Users/dcsw/Desktop/blah.ly.ps)' failed (1)
)> error: failed files: "C:\\Users\\dcsw\\Desktop\\blah.ly.ly"
)>
)> So the issue is with Windows 7 SP1 specifically rather than a LP bug - it
)maybe GhostScript incompatibility but I don't have the skills to easily
)debug this.
)>
)> Could we re-open this Tracker with an appropriate priority (it may no
)longer be build critical)?
)>
)> James
)>
)> _______________________________________________
)I've re-opened #1562, James, and made note of the temporary
)workaround:
)avoid \sans til the bug gets squashed.
)

I think it is more specific than that - it maybe 'sans font' related but the 
other reporter found his issue in chordmode which prints chord names which are 
in 'sans'.

It may also be something entirely different - just so as to not confuse the bug.

James