Upon hearing last week that RedHat would bring CentOS offically under its wing, I set up a 'minimal desktop' of Centos 6.5 in VirtualBox to take a look around. When after installing lilypond I found it failed to compile with the apparently very common excuse of: warning: `(gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=./test.pdf -c.setpdfwrite -ftest.ps)' failed (256)
And furthermore that simply repeating the command standalone succeeds in producing a PDF: gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=./test.pdf -c.setpdfwrite -ftest.ps This made me rather sad. After some digging, I opened the file `/usr/share/ghostscript/8.70/Resource/Init/Fontmap`, which initially appeared like so: %! % See Fontmap.GS for the syntax of real Fontmap files. %% Replace 1 (Fontmap.GS) (Fontmap.GS) .runlibfile % must be at the bottom of line to allow people overriding everything. (Fontmap.local) .runlibfileifexists In this syntax, `%` is a comment (removes code from programmatic evaluation). I commented the last line, like so: %! % See Fontmap.GS for the syntax of real Fontmap files. %% Replace 1 (Fontmap.GS) (Fontmap.GS) .runlibfile % must be at the bottom of line to allow people overriding everything. %(Fontmap.local) .runlibfileifexists Now lilypond compilation succeeds. I hope this information is useful to someone. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
