Re: Chordmode breaks in 2.10 and 2.11

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Ed Catmur escreveu:
> On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 19:42 +1100, Brett Duncan wrote:
>> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>>> I looked at the .ps file that Brett sent me, and couldn't notice 
>>> anything strange
>>> there. The problems seems somehow to be related to the Verdana TrueType
>>> font that's used for the chord names, but I don't understand why your 
>>> Ghostscript
>>> (which should be the one included in the LilyPond distribution) fails 
>>> to handle it.
>>> Over here, there are no problems to convert your PS file to PDF.
>>>
>>>   /Mats
>> Thanks for looking at this, Mats.
>>
>> I am completely baffled by this problem. I've checked all the instances 
>> of the Verdana font I can find on my laptop, and they all check out 
>> okay. Maybe there's another instance of the font somewhere I can't find. 
>> I thought maybe the wrong version of GS was being triggered, but running 
>> with --verbose shows that GPL Ghostscript SVN PRE-RELEASE 8.56 
>> (2006-05-20) is the version called. And when I tried using ps2pdf 
>> directly to process the .ps file, it choked - "invalid font in 
>> --glyphshow--".
> 
> I have no idea whether this is related, but that error message reminds
> me of http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688536 - perhaps you
> might try the patch there?

Unlikely. Lily ships with GS r7665, which is more recent.


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