Werner: > >> "taking care of PostScript" is not related to converting LilyPond's > >> graphics internals to Cairo since LilyPond's graphics internals are > >> not written in PostScript. > > > > Ok, forget it then, you are not listening. [...] > > Why such a hostile tone, Karl? There is no reason for this.
No, that is not a hostile tone, it's a tired tone. > I have to agree with David: While having well readable PS is nice, > this is just a by-product of the conversion process from a .ly to a > .pdf file. Essentially, the formatting of the PS stuff is of *no > importance* to a vast majority of users. I don't argue about that, save if you just want the ps file. > > I use the PS as is, [...] > > So tell us what you are doing with the PS stuff. Mostly the same thing you do with your pdf's, I guess, like psnup, psselect, pstops, a patched version of psbook (so the paper curves the right way when I fold them out of the printer), includegraphics from latex, and probably some more. And my printers doesn't take pdf. > > And my interest was in reading pdf's, so I can write programs to > > extract the info I want from pdf's. > > Have you tried `pdftk' to uncompress a PDF file? It's then almost as > readable as a plain PS file (see attachments). No, it looks promising, thanks, now I have to find out how it does that. Though, my conclusion was that pdf is not better than ps regarding postprocessing, and yes I know that pdf (depending on pdf version) has some features that ps don't have. Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57 _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
