Re: Lilypond not working on Win7 sp1

[Colin Campbell]

On 11-03-22 05:40 AM, James Lowe wrote:
> Robbie (and Bugsquad!)
>
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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.

Colin

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