W98SE PDF's successful: was Re: DOS-based Windows users, please test

[Paul Scott]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> Paul Scott writes:
>
>  
>
> > > Please send failure/success reports for your flavour of windows here.
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > MS Windows 98SE using the 2.6.2-1 upgrade:
> >
> > Double-clicking on the .ly file or right-clicking and choosing
> > "Generate PDF"
> > No PDF.
> > A new file - nul$ which contains "GNU LilyPond 2.6.1
> >
> > Executing <path-to-lilypond>\lilypond --pdf test2.ly from a DOS prompt
> > seems to give the same result.
> >    
>
> Thanks for testing.  Too bad it doesn't work.  Someone will have to
> put some effort into windows 98.  I'm really wondering if this works
> on windows me...
>  
Ok.  Going back to our previous attempt.  I have attached a batch file
which corrects the GS_LIB problem and successfully creates a PDF on MS
Windows 98SE.

Paul

set lily=c:\progra~1\lilypond\usr
set GS_LIB=%lily%\share\gs\lib
set GS_FONTPATH=c:\windows\fonts
%lily%\bin\gs -dCompatibilityLevel#1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 
-sDEVICE#pdfwrite -sOutputFile#"simple.pdf" -c .setpdfwrite -f "simple.ps"