Hi Lance I'm probably not the best person to help as I don't have Windows 7, but here's a couple of things that might help.
First, LilyPond is correctly installed. Running test.ly from within Program Files will not work as you expect, as under Windows Program Files is protected. Files created there by an application are saved within AppData under your user ID, I believe. I don't think the installation procedure sets the Path variable to point to the executable. As you're familiar with the command prompt you may be also familiar with setting the Path variable. Try echo %PATH% to see if it includes the path to ...\LilyPond\usr\bin. Once this is set you can compile a file from anywhere using the command prompt. Finally, if you want to use LilyPond (rather than just test it out briefly) you will find it much easier to use the Frescobaldi editor, which is specifically tailored for LilyPond. You can find it here: http://www.frescobaldi.org/ Good luck! Trevor ----- Original Message ----- From: SonusProj . To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 10:23 PM Subject: New install issue Just installed the latest (Stable) version 2.18.2-1 for Windows 7. Install indicated all went fine. Testing installing by following tutorial. Save as test.ly, drag and drop onto lilypond icon. I do this and no pdf or log file is created. I moved the test.ly to c:\program files (x86)\lilypond\usr\bin directory. I ran lilypond test.ly from command prompt and received the following feedback: GNU LilyPond 2.18.2 Processing `test.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... Preprocessing graphical objects... Finding the ideal number of pages... Fitting music on 1 page... Drawing systems... Layout output to `test.ps'... Converting to `./test.pdf'... Success: compilation successfully completed However, I never see a PDF open nor can I locate a test.pdf or log file anywhere. Suggestions? Thanks, Lance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
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