Hi Alasdair,
Just in case, Sumatra PDF viewer does not cause such issue.
Cheers,
Pierre

Le dim. 24 mai 2020 à 17:11, Alasdair McAndrew <[email protected]> a écrit :

> Many thanks - yes, that's what it was.  I'm using VSCode and its Lilypond
> extension, and I had installed the vscode-pdf viewer, which clashed with my
> LaTeX-Workshop extension, which has its own PDF viewer in it.  Anyway,
> after a bit of fiddling and a few VSCode restarts I was able to use the
> LaTeX pdf viewer for the Lilypond output.  All good now!
>
> As it's now 1am, and I have been wrestling with some 17th century music
> (full of huge leaps and multiple changes of clef), time for whisky... and
> sleep!
>
> Thank you again,
> Alasdair
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 11:56 PM Phil Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> You get this sort of error if the PDF from the previous compilation is
>> still open in many PDF viewers - they lock the file.  Try closing your PDF
>> viewer and trying again.
>>
>> --
>> Phil Holmes
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Alasdair McAndrew <[email protected]>
>> *To:* lilypond-user Mailinglist <[email protected]>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, May 24, 2020 1:43 PM
>> *Subject:* A fatal error with a new installation
>>
>> I have just installed Lilypond on Windows 10, following the instructions
>> to basically download, install, and add its path to the environment
>> variable.
>>
>> However, it won't compile; on a simple file; the log finishes with:
>>
>> warning: `(gs -q -dNOSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28
>>  -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4
>>
>> -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dAutoRotatePages=/None -dPrinted=
>> false -sOutputFile=/Users/amca/Lilypond/Butler_divisions_D_major.pdf
>> -c.setpdfwrite -f./tmp-lilypond-c5ihri)' failed (1)
>>
>> fatal error: failed files:
>> "C:\\Users\\amca\\Lilypond\\Butler_divisions_D_major.ly"
>>
>>
>> When I changed the name of the file it compiled once, and then wouldn't
>> compile again - it threw the same error message.
>>
>> As I say, this is a new installation - just installed this afternoon, and
>> there were no previous versions of Lilypond on this system.  I've checked a
>> few times, and the only way I can get a new compilation is to rename the
>> file.
>>
>> What's going on here and how can I fix it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alasdair
>>
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