Hello. > > Anybody who wants to play tricks with ps files (and I am occasionally > > one of them) is free to invoke lilypond --ps, so this is a red herring. > > I agree with Laura: we should treat the .ps files are temporary and > > delete them. I have a script that does this automatically, but I think > > that deleting the .ps files is a good default option. Most users don't > > want ps, and many users who investigate the ps files won't know how to > > deal with them properly. Anybody who really wants a ps file can invoke > > with --ps. > > What is the big deal with pdf? > >From what I understand is that they are "portable", but most pdf's I > get from others does not show up good or at all in gv, xpdf or evince. > It seems that they are "portable" in the sens that work with ths latest > Adobe acrobat. > > For me, pdf means trouble. Why should I ever want to produce pdf's? > > And btw, the pdf's produces by current lilypond does not print either > on my (postscript) printer. >
I also have problems when printing the pdf. And my postscript printer doesn't like the ps produced by lilypond: it spits out pages and pages, each one with a single error message on it, most of them about "unknown command". >From an earlier message, I understand that it is probably related to the binary font description in PS level 3. So, I too, would rather have lilypond convert automatically to PS level 2. Thanks, Gilles _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
