xpdf won't show lily's PDF file

[Laura Conrad]

My system in currently in dependency hell, so I'm sure this isn't either
a lilypond problem or an xpdf problem, but an  ubuntu package manager
problem.  (If anyone tells you ubuntu has 32-bit executables installing
seamlessly on a 64-bit system, they haven't tested it much.)

But if someone knows off the top of their heads why evince and gv can
read the lilypond output with no problem, but xpdf comes up and then
gives pages and pages of errors like:

re 3930.24 340.711 2.48828 161.008
S
q
cm 10 0 0 10 0 0
BT
Tf /R14 19.9253
  font: tag=R14 name='LKBZYR+Emmentaler-20' 19.9253
Tm 1 0 0 1 393.473 50.1719
Tj ()
ET
Q
re 3871.16 0 2.49219 57.4805
f
re 3871.16 -2.99219 2.48828 60.4727
S
Q

and then segfaults, it might help me fix the dependency problem.

Don't ask me to check acroread, because I think that's what triggered the
dependency hell.  I did finally manage to remove it this morning, so the
hell is somewhat cooler than it was last night.

And if anyone has point-and-click working (with emacs) with any other
pdf reader besides xpdf, that would be useful, too.

Thanks,

-- 
Laura   (mailto:address@hidden, twitter: @serpentplayer)
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Mr. Barenboim recalled observing Mr. Boulez lead Schoenberg's "Pelleas
und Melisande" with the BBC Symphony in the early 1960s.

"I sat with the score during the rehearsal," he said. "At the
beginning there is quite a lot of chromaticism, and at a certain point
there was a chord out of tune and Pierre said, 'No, no, this is sharp,
this is flat.' I was amazed.

"As a pianist I had no idea how he heard all that. I mean, when I
thought my piano was out of tune, I just called the tuner. So I asked
Pierre how he did it. I was starting to conduct, and I wanted to know
if this was something I could learn.

"Pierre said: 'You have to have the courage to say what you hear and
think when you conduct. Either the player will correct you and say
it's not me out of tune, it's the second oboe, or you will be
right. But in any case you will learn. Don't put your ego above the
music. Do what you have to do for the sake of the music, and only in
that way will you make progress.' "

Quoted by Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times, January 10, 2010