Re: Lilypond not rendering PDF on Mac

[Tyler Mitchell]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 05:32:11PM +0000, Stephen Wilkinson wrote:
> Sorry, not sure if I've posted this twice

Yes.

> I've recently installed Lilypond (2.18.2) onto a new Mac (OS X
> 14.2), but have run into a problem at the beginning. Lilypond
> hangs when rendering a file at the 'Converting to .pdf.' stage.

I would try running something like:

        $ lilypond -V --ps --pdf test.ly

It will show the command it's using to convert the .ps file to PDF,
eg:

        gs -dNOSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 
-dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite 
-sOutputFile=./test.pdf -c.setpdfwrite -ftest.ps

And, you'll be left with the original .ps file.

So then you could try that gs command, perhaps even adding -dDEBUG
to see what's going on.

Cheers,
Tyler