Han-Wen wrote: > > So I suppose the work-around is simply to have Lily bypass the call to > > gs altogether and always use Apple's "open" utility to create the pdf, > > at least for this large file ... but two questions: > > That surprises me; Apple's PS to PDF convertor consistently crashes on > Lily's PS files - which is also why MacOS version by default erases them.
My mistake -- you're completely correct. In the intervening week or so since I wrote the original post I ran up against the fact that nearly any amount of \markup in lily file will make Apple's pdf renderer explode on the resulting .ps. If you have *no* \markup, then, by all means, use Apple's pdf renderer; but for real work I'll definitely be using ps2pdf's call to ghostscript. So, please disregard my earlier observation about using Apple's pdf renderer; bad suggestion. On the other hand, the point about turning off point-and-click is still a good one -- using -dno-point-and-click combined with lily's default call to ghostscript works perfectly under OS X, including for large, complex files with plenty of \markup. Trevor. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
