Re: Ghostscipt failure 256

[David Wright]

On Thu 06 Apr 2017 at 13:07:24 (+0200), N. Andrew Walsh wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I ran into Error 256 a while back. I solved it by using a newer version of
> Lily (the 2.19 branch) installed from the package from the website.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> A

I didn't see a report that you'd fixed this. I thought you were
already running verion 2.19.54 when you had this problem back in
February.

> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 9:31 PM, Pieter Terpstra <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Dear people,
> > With one file that i wanted to reedit today gives now a failure, it worked
> > fine in june, 2016.
> >
> > Will not post it here because it is 1274 lines long.
> >
> > The log says this:
> > Layout output to `120-Arpeggios.ps'...
> > Converting to `./120-Arpeggios.pdf'...
> > warning: `(gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=612.00
> > -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=792.00 -
> > dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> > -sOutputFile=./120-
> > Arpeggios.pdf -c.setpdfwrite -f120-Arpeggios.ps)' failed (256)
> >
> > fatal error: failed files: "/home/neljor/LLP/Giuliani/
> > Opus1/120-Arpeggios.ly"
> > Exited with return code 1.
> >
> > Version ghostscript is 9.15, have also tried 9.20 with the same result.
> > Lilypond version is  2.18.2
> >
> > Any ideas??
> >
> > Thank you so much in advance!
> >
> > Peter

Cheers,
David.