Re: pdf files

[Paul Scott]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> Paul Scott writes:
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> > After dealing with the ancient DOS shell (command line) here it is.
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> Thanks.
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> > This also brings up another point that I have seen briefly mentioned
> > either here or on the devel list.  Is there a problem with setting the
> > environment variables so that LilyPond.exe can be found while working
> > in another directory?
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> Not that I know of.  What problem are you referring to?
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Many installation programs modify autoexec.bat (or maybe autoexec.nt for 
W2K or WXP) to set the paths to the executables.  This might have helped 
the problem I discovered below as the next step.

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> > Invoking `gs    -dCompatibilityLevel#1.4  -sPAPERSIZE#"a4" -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200  
> > -sDEVICE#pdfwrite -sOutputFile#"simple.pdf" -c .setpdfwrite -f "simple.ps"'...
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> Ok, now please try running the gs command manually, first setting the
> appropriate env vars (set LILYPOND_VERBOSE=1 to see the values that lp uses)
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> set GS_LIB=C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/ghostscript/fonts  # ? check
> set GS_FONTHPATH=C:/WINDOWS/FONTS
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> gs    -dCompatibilityLevel#1.4  -sPAPERSIZE#"a4" -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200  -sDEVICE#pdfwrite 
> -sOutputFile#"simple.pdf" -c .setpdfwrite -f "simple.ps"
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I had to prepend the path to "gs" above.  Since it's not in the current 
directory it doesn't get found.  Then I get:

GPL Ghostscript 8.15: Can't find initialization file gs_init.ps

Paul