Re: LilyPond EPS renders, but EPS-to-PDF conversion with Ghostscript produces empty PDF / parsecff rangecheck

Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sorry for the late reply.

> I recently took over maintenance of the LaTeX package lyluatex and
> noticed that several users have reported issues on Windows with
> MiKTeX.  [...]
>
> In short: I am seeing Ghostscript `/rangecheck` errors in
> `--.parsecff--` when converting LilyPond-generated EPS files to PDF
> on Windows.

Please provide such an EPS file (created by LilyPond while running on
Windows) for further inspection.

> 1. Is this a known version compatibility issue between LilyPond
>    2.26.0 and Ghostscript 10.07.1 on Windows?

I'm not aware of any special gs behaviour on Windows.

> 2. Which Ghostscript versions are expected/supported for LilyPond
>    EPS/PDF generation on Windows?

You are the first who reports this particular problem, AFAIK.

> 3. Should MiKTeX users pin LilyPond/Ghostscript versions, or configure
>    LilyPond font/resource paths explicitly?

They shouldn't.


    Werner
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