Re: weird error engraving two files with 2.23.14

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno gio 13 ott 2022 alle 10:06:47 +0000, Kevin Barry 
<barrykp@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> Hi Federico,
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 01:06:17AM +0200, Federico Bruni wrote:
> >  Hi folks
> >
> >  I've recently used convert-ly to update my private music sheet 
> > library and
> >  test version 2.23.14 (official binaries).
> >  Two files are failing with the same error message:
>
> Did this work with 2.23.13? Or what was the last version it worked on?

I tried 2.23.12 and I got the same error.


> >  Any idea about the cause? I'm using a different font for tablature 
> > numbers,
> >  but commenting that line still triggers this error.
> >  These two files are copyrighted and I can't share them here, but I 
> > will send
> >  privately to anyone interested in debugging this issue.
>
> On the surface it looks like a problem with ghostscript, but it's not
> clear. If you remove all font changes does the error still occur? Can
> you send on the verbose log for that?
>
> Also, if you are willing to try it, see if adding the option
> -dbackend=cairo (which should avoid calling ghostscript) also fails 
> (you
> may need libcairo or some such installed on your system for this).

It works great using the cairo backend!
I wanted to test it so I think I'll set it as default for all my 
scores. What are the current drawbacks? There's any page in the docs 
about cairo?

$ git grep -ni cairo Documentation/en/
Documentation/en/web/introduction.itexi:1435:a score editor based on 
the @uref{https://www.cairographics.org,Cairo}