To all, This "bug" is apparently a problem on my Windows 2000 machine only. I retried my experiment on a newer Windows XP computer and backend EPS works flawlessly.
Beautiful sharp output, that blows away the PNG's. Still no wysiwyg in MSWord, but when I render my MSWord doc to PDF all the snippets show up, my pre-press will be PDF anyway, MSWord is just a word processor... wysiwyg is not a big issue I know what all the rectangles mean anyway. Please disregard my earlier post. Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: > > V.2.9.22 fresh install after running uninstall of 2.9.21, on Win 2000... > > I've been encountering some issues using backend EPS output in my Word > processor documents and subsequent gs processing. I am using the > following command options to create small musical fragments for inclusion > in other documents: > > > > lilypond -b eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts myfile.ly > > > > Here are the issues, some have work-arounds others don’t: > > 1) When I include the lily produced EPS in my Word document, it just > appears as a blank rectangle (of proper size). This is OK because when I > actually print the document, or "virtual print" it to a ghostscript > virtual PDF converter like CutePDF. The EPS rectangle does print the > music (beautifully but partially) see next point. > > 2) The EPS rectangle contains the music however many "parts" are simply > missing, for example note heads are missing, but stems are there, ties are > there, but accidentals are missing, grace note heads are missing, clef is > present, as well as time signature and the staff symbol itself is there, > etc. I have not documented all the "pieces" that are missing, but > obviously something is awry in the font-embedding to cause random missing > characters, I assume. > > 3) The third issues occurs when viewing the gs prduced PDF through Adobe > reader. If I click on the area of the page where the EPS rectangle is, > Adobe says that it is attempting to "contact a web site" then gives a > normal file path to a path on the machine that created the original EPS. > I'm assuming it's probably looking for the missing fonts? When I click > that rectangle of music in Adobe Reader it launches a DOS window (maybe > gs, don’t know?), but the document does not change. I would rather not > see any click behavior with a non-interactive PDF print document. > > 4) Finally if I take one of the backend EPS files created by lily and just > use ghostscript to convert it to PDF, the same issues (2 and 3) above > still occur in Adobe Reader. I think this kind of eliminates MSWord as > the culprit. I use CutePDF to convert Windows applications print output > to PDF, CutePDF is just a freeware "virtual printer" shell wrapped around > gs, "impersonating" a printer, then puts up a SaveAs dialog to save the > PDF. > > > > Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve these problems? > > I really like the output of using EPS over PNG for imbedding music into > other documents. The quality of the EPS vs. the PNG is like day and > night, with the EPS being crystal clear, albeit missing note heads, and > making Adobe Reader act weird right now. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Or can someone possibly > double-check the code that does the font embedding to EPS for a possible > bug related to at-least the accidentals and note heads? Or maybe a > possible bug that is causing Adobe to think it needs to reference an > external URL in order to render? I will be glad to be your test case for > any new code. > > Are the fonts maybe hosed on my machine? Is there any kind of clean up > and reinstall I should try first? > > Lily itself works fine otherwise. > > Thanks, > Rick > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Backend-EPS-issue-tf2420691.html#a6749151 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
