Windows: LilyPond EPS renders, but EPS-to-PDF conversion with Ghostscript produces empty PDF / parsecff rangecheck
Erik Nijenhuis via bug-lilypond <[email protected]> Mon, 25 May 2026 13:22:17 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi, I recently took over maintenance of the LaTeX package lyluatex and noticed = that several users have reported issues on Windows with MiKTeX. I do not have a Windows machine myself, but I tried to reproduce the situation using GitHub Actions, and I hope I have gathered some useful information. In short: I am seeing Ghostscript `/rangecheck` errors in `--.parsecff--` w= hen converting LilyPond-generated EPS files to PDF on Windows. The generated EP= S files appear to contain the expected music, but the resulting PDFs are empt= y or unusable. My main questions are: 1. Is this a known version compatibility issue between LilyPond 2.26.0 and Ghostscript 10.07.1 on Windows? 2. Which Ghostscript versions are expected/supported for LilyPond EPS/PDF generation on Windows? 3. Should MiKTeX users pin LilyPond/Ghostscript versions, or configure LilyPond font/resource paths explicitly? Version info: * LilyPond 2.26.0 * Ghostscript 10.07.1 * Windows Server 2022 GitHub Actions runner * MiKTeX 26.5 present, but the minimal reproducer is outside lyluatex Reference of the run: https://github.com/jperon/lyluatex/actions/runs/26399582268/job/77708351465= ?pr=3D3 33 Best, Erik Nijenhuis