Ok, weirdly enough just running ps2pdf on the generated PDFs does work - both the version in the Lilypond app and the new Ghostscript version. But Lilypond is still hanging when doing the conversion itself
On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 9:39 PM Stephen Wilkinson < stephen.wilkinson...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, spoke too soon, got it working again now. So, almost back where we > started. I can confirm though that the generated .ps files do open fine in > other programs. So I guess the problem must be the pstopdf stage. > > On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 9:29 PM Stephen Wilkinson < > stephen.wilkinson...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >While it doesn’t help much to have someone tell you it works on their >> machine, it does at least tell you it's possible. >> Good to know, thanks! >> >> I've been playing around with a few of the suggestions, including >> Homebrew and updating Ghostscript, and have now helpfully got to the point >> where Lilypond won't open at all, on its own or in Frescobaldi. Using --V >> comes up with the same 'unsupported compressor' errors as before, and then >> it just hangs without fully opening. So, fun times... >> >> On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 8:47 PM Stan Sanderson <stans...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I’m running Mac OS 10.14.2 with Lilypond 2.19.82 installed from the >>> site’s disk image and using Fescobaldi 2.20.0, Frescobaldi is set to output >>> pdf and does so without a problem. ps2pdf is located in >>> /usr/local/bin/ps2pdf. >>> >>> Compiling a file directly from the Lilypond app also produces the >>> expected pdf file. >>> >>> While it doesn’t help much to have someone tell you it works on their >>> machine, it does at least tell you it's possible. >>> >>> In my case, I have been using Lilypond somewhat continuously on Macs >>> over the years and upgrading the OS as it comes. I have never experienced >>> the problem you mentioned. >>> >>> (off-topic: The only concern I have is that the next version of the OS >>> will require 64-bit apps; Lilypond is 32) >>> >>> >>> > On Jan 8, 2019, at 11:32 AM, Stephen Wilkinson < >>> stephen.wilkinson...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > Sorry, not sure if I've posted this twice >>> > >>> > I've recently installed Lilypond (2.18.2) onto a new Mac (OS X 14.2), >>> but have run into a problem at the beginning. Lilypond hangs when rendering >>> a file at the 'Converting to .pdf.' stage. >>> > >>> > I've tried this both with the default test file and scores I've >>> already got, and both through and without Frescobaldi. I've got it >>> rendering to SVGs as a workaround, but Frescobaldi's handling of them isn't >>> quite as fluent, so it would be nice to be able to make PDFs as normal. Any >>> ideas? Thanks >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > lilypond-user mailing list >>> > lilypond-user@gnu.org >>> > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >>> >>>
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