Re: Fontmap entry for Fontmap.local ends prematurely!

[James Lowe]

Hello Karl,

On 30/11/15 00:43, Karl Berry wrote:
> I installed lilypond from your lilypond-2.18.2-1.linux-x86.sh (from
> http://www.lilypond.org/unix.html) on centos 6.7.  Running lilypond -V --pdf
> test.ly with the test.ly file from that same page ends with:
> ----
> Converting to `./newtest.pdf'...
> Invoking `gs -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89
> -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> -sOutputFile=./newtest.pdf -c.setpdfwrite -fnewtest.ps'...
>
> GPL Ghostscript 8.70 (2009-07-31)
> Copyright (C) 2009 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> Fontmap entry for Fontmap.local ends prematurely!  Giving up.
> warning: `(gs -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89
> -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> -sOutputFile=./newtest.pdf -c.setpdfwrite -fnewtest.ps)' failed (256)
>
> fatal error: failed files: "newtest.ly"
> ----
>
> The /etc/ghostscript/8.70/Fontmap.local on my system is just an empty file.
>  I suppose Lilypond is using some Fontmap.local of its own in its own gs's
> Resource/Init or whatever.
>
> When I run the stated gs command from the command line, explicitly using the
> lilypond-provided gs, it runs fine.  (it also runs fine with the
> system-provided gs, and the latest gs-9.18 release which I compiled myself.)
>
> No problem getting on with things, but I just thought I'd report that the
> stated first recipe failed.  If I can do anything useful for further
> debugging, just let me know.  

We have no plans for any more 2.18.x releases, so ca you confirm if you
still get the same problem when using the lastest development (2.19.x)
available download?

http://lilypond.org/development.html

Regards

James

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