Thank you, Jean, that makes sense and will help. all the best,
Abe On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 12:53 AM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote: > I'm having the same problem.There's already a thread about this: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2023-06/msg00135.html > Joshua Armenta posted a solution, something to do with Ghostscript, but I > couldn't make it to work. > > That thread is not about the same problem as this thread. > > Your specific Ghostscript error is > > Error: /undefined in finddevice > > The problem is that recently, Ghostscript (the software used by LilyPond > to convert its PostScript output to PDF) had a “security fix release”, > version 10.02.1, which removed a function that was used by LilyPond > (apparently because it was somehow found to be insecure). See issue 6675 > <https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6675>. > > Since security fix releases are always assumed not to break anything, > packagers pick them up without much thought. In this case, Homebrew was > quick to upgrade to 10.02.1 and LilyPond broke. > > LilyPond has already been changed to avoid using it, but Homebrew doesn't > have that fix yet. > > I don't know enough about Homebrew to say whether it's possible to > downgrade Ghostscript to 10.02.0. You could try the official binaries > <https://lilypond.org/download.html>, which do work. > > Best, > > Jean >
