Re: Help getting dvips working please

[Mats Bengtsson]

Please search the mailing list archives for details, but if I recall
correctly, there was a problem with certain versions of the
ec-fonts-mftrace package.

   /Mats

Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just started using Lilypond. Thanks for all the work you've put in!
>
> I have a slight problem. When I run lilypond, I get a valid dvi file 
> that I can view in xdvi, but it fails to produce a postscript file. I 
> think there's something wrong with dvips finding ec-mftrace.map, but I 
> don't know what. Partial output from a lilypond --verbose run follows.
>
> I've tried using kpswhich to find ec-mftrace.map, which fails, but it is 
> in the ls-R file :-(
>
> -------------
>
> Element count 
> 786.[0][[/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/ec-fonts-mftraced/ecrm6.tfm][/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/ec-share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/ec-fonts-mftraced/ecrm10.tfm][/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/ec-fonts-mftraced/ecti7.tfm][/onts-mftraced/ecti10.tfm]3][4][5][/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/ec-fonts-mftraced/ecbx12.tfm][/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tf][/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/ec-fonts-mftraced/eccc10.tfm]Layout 
> output to `ComeSee.tex'...
> Invoking `latex \\nonstopmode \\input ComeSee.tex'...
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
> LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
> Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, 
> ngerman, n
> ohyphenation, loaded.
>
> (./ComeSee.tex (/usr/share/lilypond/2.4.2/tex/lilyponddefs.tex
> (/usr/share/lilypond/2.4.2/tex/lily-ps-defs.tex))
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> No auxiliary output files.
>
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def))
> No file ComeSee.aux.
> [1] )
> Output written on ComeSee.dvi (1 page, 28148 bytes).
> Transcript written on ComeSee.log.
> Invoking `dvips  -t "a4"   -u+ec-mftrace.map -u+lilypond.map -Ppdf 
> ComeSee'...
> This is dvips(k) 5.92b Copyright 2002 Radical Eye Software 
> (www.radicaleye.com <http://www.radicaleye.com>)
> ' TeX output 2005.03.02:1218' -> ComeSee.ps
> dvips: ! Couldn't find header file ecrm10
> Error invoking `dvips  -t "a4"   -u+ec-mftrace.map -u+lilypond.map -Ppdf 
> ComeSee'. Return value 256
> Converting to `ComeSee.pdf'...Invoking `ps2pdf  -sPAPERSIZE="a4" 
> ComeSee.ps'...
> Error: /undefinedfilename in (ComeSee.ps)
>
> --
> Ruth Ivimey-Cook <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>
>
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