Re: PDF Viewing / Updating a score

[Trent Johnston]

Thanks Mats,

For testing this also.. thought I was going a bit mad... I use Musixtex as
well (although working hard to migrate over to lilypond) and I have no
trouble with using gsview to look at the postscript files produced.

As I've said before there doesn't seem to be any other postcript viewer for
windows.

I see your point Mats if ghostscript is used to create the postscript file
and gsview uses the very same ghostscript to display files I don't no the
reason for these errors.

I thought of posting a message to the creators of gsview with a sample .ps
file maybe they could diagnose why their software is unable to display these
ps files.

Strange, too I can use ps2pdf in version 8.00 of the Ghostscript already
installed on my system which works perfectly so the ps file isn't corrupt in
any way. So I suppose the fault seems to rest with gsview.

Should I contact the creators of gsview? Has anyone else had success in
viewing a ps file?

Trent

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mats Bengtsson" <address@hidden>
To: "Trent J" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>; "lilypond
devel" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: PDF Viewing / Updating a score


> In Linux, you can view the Postscript file if you use a
> recent version of Ghostscript (note that GSView in Windows
> and gv and ghostview in Linux just are interface programs
> that internally use ghostscript to actually show the postscript).
> So, I tried to upgrade ghostscript (and the corresponding GSView)
> in Windows, but it didn't help. I tried both AFPL version 8.51 and
> GPL version 8.15 but both give error messages (included below).
> Finally, I tried to let GSView use the ghostscript included in
> the LilyPond package, but still got similar error messages.
>
> I don't realize why one and the same ghostscript version works
> well in Linux but fails in Windows for the LilyPond generated PS
> files. Can anyone provide a hint?
>
> The error message when using AFPL version 8.51 was:
>
> GSview 4.7 2005-03-26
> 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: Thu Aug  4 21:39:14 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.
> AFPL Ghostscript 8.51 (2005-04-18)
> Copyright (C) 2005 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> Displaying DSC file C:/Documents and Settings/mabe/Desktop/a.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:1129/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:125/200(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Last OS error: No such file or directory
>
> --- Begin offending input ---
> ace glyphshow
>   /L glyphshow
>   /i glyphshow
>   /l glyphshow
>   /y glyphshow
>   /P glyphshow
>   /o glyphshow
>   /n glyphshow
>   /d glyphshow
>   grestore } place-box
> 061.8237 -163.0777 { gsave 1 output-scale div 1 output-scale div scale
>    /CenturySchL-Roma  findfont 3.865234375 scalefont setfont
>   /two glyphshow
>   /period glyphshow
>   /six glyphshow
>   /period glyphshow
>   /three glyphshow
>   grestore } place-box
> 067.2038 -163.0777 { gsave 1 output-scale div 1 output-scale div scale
>    /CenturySchL-Roma  findfont 3.865234375 scalefont setfont
>   /emdash glyphshow
>   grestore } place-box
> 069.9890 -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
>
>
>
>     /Mats
>
>
> Trent J wrote:
> > Hi Bertalan,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.
> >
> > Using the PDF file is not possible for updating since Lilypond deletes
> > the old PDF before writing the new one which means closing the pdf
> > before running lilypond. So viewing the postscript file is the way to
> > go. As I said before gsview for some reason is unable to display
> > lilypond .ps files and as far as I can see is really the only postscript
> > viewer for windows.
> >
> > VSD replied earlier saying there was a view postscript command in
> > lily4jedit which I use with lilypond. He said that this is doesn't work
> > with the latest lily4jedit version (0.2.8-6) which I'm also using...
> > with windows native version 2.7 of lilypond.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Trent
> >
>
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >     From:  /Bertalan Fodor <address@hidden>/
> >     To:  /VSD <address@hidden>/
> >     CC:  /Trent J <address@hidden>, address@hidden/
> >     Subject:  /Re: PDF Viewing / Updating a score/
> >     Date:  /Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:47:15 +0200/
> >     Regarding PDF viewing, I'm trying to embed multivalent
> >     (www.sourceforge.net/projects/multivalent) into lily4jedit, but its
> >     developer just don't release his latest version, which I would need.
> >     Perhaps you should write some feature request or into the general
> >     discussion forums, to make him release.
> >
> >     Another possible solution is to use gsview (GhostScript viewer) to
> >     view the PDF (setting it as the external PDF viewer in lily4jedit).
> >     However, I don't know how to configure it to use point-and-click.
> >     (It would be very-very good if someone gave a  hint.)
> >
> >      >Unfortunately this seems to be broken in the last lily4jedit
version
> >      >  (0.2.8-6), at least with lily 2.7.X windows native, because it
> >      >seems to  mix cygwin paths (using "/" and prefixed with
> >      >"/cygdrive/") in the call to  the ghostscript which comes with
> >      >lilypond.
> >
> >     Please make a bug tracker at www.sourceforge.net/projects/lily4jedit
> >
> >     Bert
> >
> >
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