Re: lyp

[David Wright]

On Tue 17 Mar 2020 at 07:10:42 (-0700), Sami Amiris wrote:
> On Tue 17 Mar 2020 at 13:02:07 (+0100), Francisco Vila wrote:
> > El 16/3/20 a las 18:39, Sami Amiris escribió:
> > > I installed all packages as well. To my dismay, it did not
> > > print at all.
> > 
> > Here you should tell exactly which stage of the whole printing process
> > you reached. "Printing" is sometimes used in the manuals for
> > "rendering" but there are intermediate PS files which could be correct
> > even if latest Ghostscript command fails.
> > 
> When using the lyp-installed lilypond 2.20, it fails to produce a pdf,
> producing this message instead:
> 
> "
> ...
> Converting to `experiment.pdf'...
> warning: `(gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28
> -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH
> -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dAutoRotatePages=/None -dPrinted=false
> -sOutputFile=experiment.pdf -c.setpdfwrite -f/tmp/lilypond-rX8aP4)' failed
> (139)
> 
> fatal error: failed files: "/tmp/lyp/wrappers/experiment.ly"
> "

So did the PostScript file look OK? (In this case, it's the file
/tmp/lilypond-rX8aP4, but you might have to repeat the run if /tmp has
since been cleaned.) There are various PostScript viewers about,
such as atril, evince, okular and zathura/zathura-ps as well as
ghostscript/gv itself.

Cheers,
David.