Re: Ghostscript

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2022-02-19 at 06:09 +0000, Joe Wilkinson wrote:
> 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

yes, it's a bad situation: in the Unix world you would install the
executable with its versioned name at a versioned place and point a
universal name (such as gs.exe) in a universal place to the current
version. That way people don't have to search it out afresh at every
update. I guess this may not be possible in Windows (Windows shortcuts
are text files, I'm not sure you can launch without the help of
command.com).
So this will break if you upgrade Ghostscript, and you will need to set
your pref to the new location.

sigh!

Richard



>  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
> > 
>