[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Daniel Johnson wrote: > > Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> I just installed lilypond 2.5.11 on my amd64 and it works fine. > >> Thanks! There is one thing that does not work: > >> Whenever I call lilypond -f pdf (or use the default as that creates > >> pdf as well) lilypond hangs indefinitly: if I kill it with ctrl-c I get: > >> > >> Konvertierung nach »CatStevens-FatherAndSon.pdf«...Error invoking > >> `ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE="a4" CatStevens-FatherAndSon.ps > /dev/null 2>&1 > >> '. Return value 2 > >> > >> I use ghostscript-7.07.1 <the one from aladdin>, and ps2pdf will also > >> hang if I call it like this on the command line. > >> > > Have you tried upgrading to ghostscript 8.x? Newer versions of Lilypond > > are known to have certain problems with the 7.x series. Unfortunately > > ESP ghostscript is stuck at 7.07, but GPL/Aladdin is up to 8.5 (with > > 8.15 being latest stable). > > > I stand corrected: Not even > ps2pdf CatStevens-FatherAndSon.ps CatStevens-FatherAndSon.pdf > returns. It hangs as well, so my proposed solution would not work > anyway. I switched to afpl-ghostscript and that it works fine now. > > Still, what do we do if it hangs? Lilypond is supposed to be "robust". > Can we protect outselves from hanging when a subcommand does?
I plan to build direct PDF output in Lily shortly. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
