Re: Generating EPS with lilypond

[Mats Bengtsson]

Try to add --verbose to the call to LilyPond, to get a more informative
error message. Clearly, Ghostscript fails, but
it's hard to tell why from the current printouts.

  /Mats

Quoting Trevor Bača <address@hidden>:

> I'm having trouble invoking the eps backend in the first place.
>
> 2.9.16 under OS X Intel with this helper script to call lily.
>
> %%% HELPER SCRIPT %%%
>
> #! /bin/sh
>
> export LILYPOND_DESTDIR=`pwd`
> export
> GS_LIB="/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/ghostscript/8.50/lib"
> date
> python "/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lilycall.py"
> "/Applications/LilyPond.app/" "--backend=eps" $1
> echo 'debug'
>
> %%% END HELPER SCRIPT %%%
>
>
> Here's the test file.
>
> %%% TEST FILE%%%
>
> \version "2.9.16"
>
> \new Staff {
>   c'4
> }
>
> %%% END TEST FILE %%%
>
>
>
> And here's the result of running the helper script against the test file.
>
> %%% OUTPUT %%%
>
> Sun Aug 27 23:44:35 CDT 2006
> GNU LilyPond 2.9.16
> Processing `300.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music...
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Calculating line breaks... [2]
> Drawing systems...
> Calculating page breaks...
> Writing 300-systems.tex...
> Writing 300-systems.texi...
> Layout output to `300-1.eps'...
> Converting to `300-1.pdf'...
> `gs -q  -dSAFER   -dEPSCrop  -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4  -dNOPAUSE
> -dBATCH -r1200  -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="300-1.pdf" -c
> .setpdfwrite -f "300-1.eps"' failed (256)
> error: failed files: "300.ly"
> debug
>
> %%% END OUTPUT %%%
>
>
> I'm missing something obvious since nobody else is having trouble
> invoking the eps backend in the first place ... any clues? (I haven't
> yet worked in the -dno-gs-font-load option because I'm wanting to get
> the eps stuff working first ...)
>
>
>
> --
> Trevor Bača
> address@hidden
> ... like the dew, or like lightning ...