> On 8 Jan 2019, at 17:32, Stephen Wilkinson <[email protected]> > 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
Hi, Stephen. This is all sounding very familiar - I switched to Mac in 2013, and I’m sorry to say I solved this or a similar problem without taking note of how I did it. I think it may have had to do with the installation of (the right version of?) GhostScript. I would suggest you check that you can run Lilypond in command-line mode using the “-ps” switch to generate a PostScript file. See: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/usage.pdf If that works, and inspection of the resulting .ps file with a text editor looks credible, the conversion of PS to PDF is your problem. You should already have a copy of “ps2pdf” installed, along with lilypond. Try entering... which ps2pdf …on the command-line and see what you get. On my Mac I get: | => which ps2pdf ps2pdf is /usr/local/bin/ps2pdf ps2pdf is /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ps2pdf ps2pdf is /usr/local/bin/ps2pdf I’m not sure how lilypond finds ps2pdf (or equivalent) when it converts a PS to a PDF file, but if you have a working copy of ps2pdf on your Mac it needs to be in the path that lilypond searches for executables. Sorry not to be more specific, hope this helps. Regards, Michael _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
