Uh. I wonder if the resulting pdf, notwithstanding the directions to embed the fonts, also requires something like nosafer to work...
On Sun, 29 Sept 2024, 09:31 Luca Fascione, <l.fasci...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using the same options that gv uses, nosafer and all, and gv displays > the file just fine. I've not fiddled with it enough to make gs > DRIVER=display work, because WSL2 and that driver don't seem to be on good > terms. But I'll spend some time on that today. > Because I'm still experimenting with things, I'd rather have under control > how to go from a vector representation to a raster (I'dlike to > investigatethe effects of resolution and AA settings, for example), can I > use Cairo in pdf mode? > > On Sun, 29 Sept 2024, 09:26 Han-Wen Nienhuys, <hanw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The EPS files have some tricks to keep sizes small (load font files >> directly from the FS), which requires -dNOSAFER, and makes them more >> fiddly. >> >> If you are trying to get up to speed with regression testing, you >> could try running the whole thing (baseline and test) with >> -dbackend=cairo which produces PNG files directly. >> >> On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 12:08 AM Luca Fascione <l.fasci...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > I'm trying to convert this file >> > >> $build/input/regression/out-test/tuplet-number-shift-along-kneed-beam.eps >> > to pdf >> > using epstopdf. >> > This doesn't fail, and in fact gv shows the contents (using -dNOSAFER). >> > But the pdf produced seems to be an empty file. >> > Or rather has some data in it, but gv displays the message >> > >> > Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion >> > >> > And all pixels render white. >> > >> > I'm using GhostScript 9.55 and just remembered something about a minimum >> > version of GS being needed for lilypond EPS files. >> > >> > FWIW, if I read it correctly, epstopdf ends up doing just about this: >> > cat >> > >> /home/lukes/src/lilypond-build/input/regression/out-test/tuplet-number-shift-along-kneed-beam.eps >> > | gs -dNOSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dCompatibilityLevel=1.5 >> -sDEVICE=pdfwrite >> > >> -sOutputFile=/tmp/lukes/lilypond/input/regression/out-test/tuplet-number-shift-along-kneed-beam.pdf >> > -dPDFSETTINGS#/prepress -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dEmbedAllFonts=true >> > -dAutoRotatePages#/None -dDEBUG - -c quit >> > >> > Which I also tried on cmdline with the same result. >> > >> > I see on this page >> > >> > >> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/contributor/requirements-for-running-lilypond >> > >> > that minimum GS is 9.03, though. >> > >> > Any clues? >> > Cheers >> > Luca >> > >> > -- >> > Luca Fascione >> >> >> >> -- >> Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanw...@gmail.com - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen >> >
