On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:49:42AM +0000, Peter Toye wrote: > Brian, > > Thanks - that was it! Not a very helpful error message, is it?
You get a slightly better one if you add the -V flag (verbose): Converting to `./test.pdf'... Invoking `gs -dNOSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=./test.pdf -c.setpdfwrite -ftest.ps'... GPL Ghostscript 8.70 (2009-07-31) Copyright (C) 2009 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting. GPL Ghostscript 8.70: **** Could not open the file ./test.pdf . warning: `(gs -dNOSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=./test.pdf -c.setpdfwrite -ftest.ps)' failed (1) fatal error: failed files: "test.ly" Cheers, Tyler _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user