Re: Ghostscript

[Joe Wilkinson]

Hi Richard,
It worked, compiling score and 5 parts into a pdf 1.8MB in size.
Congratulations!
(I downloaded Ghostscript and it went into the place Edit Preferences 
pointed to and after that it was simple enough. The information came 
through that I was adding pages, and the number incremented properly too.)
Best wishes
Joe

On 18/02/2022 17:45, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-02-18 at 16:51 +0000, Joe Wilkinson wrote:
> > I just downloaded from the Download page.
> > There is no "gswin64c.exe" in the download.
> Yes, you have to install it as a separate program (as you do with
> inkscape). I tried pointing the Edit->Change Preferences->Externals-
> > ghostscript to gs.exe which *is* packaged with the binary (for
> LilyPond's use) but either I have messed my version of it up with my
> experimentation or (more likely) it needs some environment variables
> set for it to work. (You could test it out on your untarnished
> download).
>
> Bottom line though: install ghostscript for windows and if you install
> to the default place it should then work out of the box. (Otherwise
> adjust the ghostscript pref).
>
> Richard
>
>
> > Joe
> >
> > On 17/02/2022 17:32, Richard Shann wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2022-02-15 at 16:27 +0000, angelaandjoe.wilkinson wrote:
> > > >    Hi Richard,
> > > >    Beginners page tells me that perhaps we need a different
> > > > version of
> > > > Ghostscript, not gs.exe?
> > > Well, those are pre-built versions of ghostscript with whatever
> > > name
> > > Artifex's build system chooses to give them, the gs.exe that is
> > > shipped
> > > with Denemo is built from source. It is there as part of the
> > > LilyPond
> > > which is also built from source, but it may well need some
> > > environment
> > > variables set to get it going, which LilyPond will be taking care
> > > of.
> > >
> > > After a hard battle I've got the export of a book of layouts
> > > working on
> > > a windows laptop using a installed version of ghostscript; I've not
> > > tested it on the internal version, but it would be worth doing
> > > that.
> > > You choose what to use in Edit->Change Preferences->ghostscript
> > > putting the full path to gswin64c.exe should work.
> > > Remarkably, despite all assurances in chatter on the internet
> > > ghostscript was barfing on the windows backslash path separator, I
> > > had
> > > to switch them to forward slashes to get it working.
> > >
> > > It will be built tonight as usual.
> > >
> > > Richard
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >    Joe
> > > >       System Invocation Name  Unix gs  VMS gs  MS Windows 95 and
> > > > later
> > > > gswin32.exe
> > > >    gswin32c.exe
> > > >    gswin64.exe
> > > >    gswin64c.exe  OS/2 gsos2