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Re: Cygwin and Gs
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Gerrit P. Haase |
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Re: Cygwin and Gs |
Date: |
Sun, 12 May 2002 14:23:29 +0200 |
Hallo Greg,
Am Donnerstag, 9. Mai 2002 um 02:52 schriebst du:
> IMHO it is best for Windows users to get ghostscript separately. I had it
> before I got cygwin - lilypond and in my case lilypond did download a
> version of gs.
> However the two versions confused each other, and the way I solved the
> problem was to delete the version of gs that came with the lilypond and use
> the stand alone one.
> Also, although I have not done anything terribly complicated, I have had no
> trouble converting ps files to pdf using ghostscript or GSview which even
> has a menu option for it.
Huh? Try the Cygwin version:
$ ps2pdf input.ps
Works like a champ.
> Also, IMHO, and as someone who has recently succeeded in getting lilypond
> onto a linux box, I think the best advice is to tell everyone just to make a
> linux partition. Cygwin dvips takes a HUGE amount of time to run.
Gerrit
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- Cygwin and Gs, Greg Guest, 2002/05/08
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