Re: Converting lilypond-output to gif/png

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Dominic Sacré <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm trying to convert the postscript-file generated by lilypond to gifs or 
> pngs using the ps-to-gifs.sh script, but it doesn't work. I always get the 
> error messages below (and I get a similar error if I try to open the ps-file 
> with gv or ghostview).
> 
> What exactly is the problem, and how do I solve it?


That's a bit hard to tell.  What's the version of lilypond?  Maybe you
need to set the fontpath for ghostscript.

19:50:57 appel ~/usr/src/lilypond$ echo $GS_FONTPATH 
/home/fred/usr/src/lilypond/mf/out
19:51:08 appel ~/usr/src/lilypond$ echo $GS_LIB 
/home/fred/usr/src/lilypond/ps

But this

> Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusMonL-Regu.
> Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusMonL-Regu.

is quite strange: it seems that your ghostscript installation is
broken.  What operating system/distribution do you use?  Maybe you
should also send your .ly input: we normally only use cm, feta and
Times-Roman fonts.  Do you have NimbusMonL at all:

19:53:03 appel ~/usr/src/lilypond$ grep NimbusMonL-Regu 
/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/*
/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/Fontmap:/NimbusMonL-Regu     (n022003l.pfb)  ;
/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/Fontmap:/NimbusMonL-ReguObli (n022023l.pfb)  ;
/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/Fontmap:/Courier                     
/NimbusMonL-Regu        ;
/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/Fontmap:/Courier-Oblique             
/NimbusMonL-ReguObli    ;
/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/n022003l.afm:FontName NimbusMonL-Regu
Binary file /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/n022003l.pfb matches
/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/n022023l.afm:FontName NimbusMonL-ReguObli
Binary file /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/n022023l.pfb matches

What does this say:

x.ps:
%!PS-Adobe-1.0

/times { /Times-Roman findfont 36 scalefont setfont } bind def 
/nimbus { /NimbusMonL-Regu findfont 36 scalefont setfont } bind def 

20 500 moveto
times (\101)  show
times (\20)  show
times (\102)  show

20 400 moveto
nimbus (\102)  show
showpage


19:58:07 appel ~/usr/src/lilypond$ gs x.ps
GNU Ghostscript 5.10 (1998-12-17)
Copyright (C) 1997 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/n021003l.pfb... 
1873900 560938 1300092 13493 0 done.
Loading NimbusMonL-Regu font from /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/n022003l.pfb... 
1934176 606253 1300092 13695 0 done.
>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<
GS>



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