On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 9:32 AM 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?
You can use Cairo if you add LOCAL_LILYPOND_FLAGS=-dbackend=cairo local.make, and apply the following commit e48daf754a323eca0c5b15f8677d4c9574c98ad4 (HEAD -> top) Author: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanw...@gmail.com> Date: Sun Sep 29 10:56:46 2024 +0200 pdf diff --git a/make/lysdoc-targets.make b/make/lysdoc-targets.make index 453b449575..f425c9de32 100644 --- a/make/lysdoc-targets.make +++ b/make/lysdoc-targets.make @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ lysdoc-test: # Removing it works around incomplete dependencies. rm -f $(outdir)/collated-files.texi time $(MAKE) LILYPOND_BOOK_LILYPOND_FLAGS=" \ --dseparate-page-formats=ps $(LILYPOND_JOBS) -dseparate-log-files \ +-dseparate-page-formats=ps,pdf,png $(LILYPOND_JOBS) -dseparate-log-files \ -ddeterministic \ -dinclude-eps-fonts -dgs-load-fonts --header=texidoc \ -dcheck-internal-types \ @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ lysdoc-test: $(LOCAL_LILYPOND_FLAGS)" \ LILYPOND_BOOK_WARN= \ LYS_OUTPUT_DIR=$(top-build-dir)/out/lybook-testdb \ - $(outdir)/collated-files.html + $(outdir)/collated-files.pdf # Later testing will find fonts via this link. ( cd $(outdir) && \ rm -rf share && \ > 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 -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanw...@gmail.com - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen