William Zeitler wrote:
It fails to compile: Processing `C:/Users/william/Documents/Untitled.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... Preprocessing graphical objects... Finding the ideal number of pages... Fitting music on 1 page... Drawing systems... Layout output to `Untitled.ps'... Converting to `./Untitled.pdf'... warning: `(gs -q -dNOSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=./Untitled.pdf -c.setpdfwrite -fUntitled.ps)' failed (1) fatal error: failed files: "Untitled.ly"
This is a newbie problem. You are using a pdf viewer such as Adobe Reader which locks the file it is displaying. In the above log, LilyPond compiles successfully, producing a .ps. But the subsequent ghostscript conversion from .ps to .pdf fails, because Adobe Reader won't let it write to the .pdf. The .ps file is partly readable; the gibberish parts are the fonts. Your case is mentioned at the bottom of this page: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/web/windows The same page is in the Learning Manual (required reading) at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/windows So always terminate Adobe Reader before recompiling. Or use a non-blocking viewer such as SumatraPDF. Cheers, Robin _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
