Re: ps changes betweeen 2.7.29 and 2.8.2 broke tabloid booklet

2006-05-14 Thread John Hawkinson
Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sun, 14 May 2006 at 21:08:21 -0700 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >I expect this relates to binary font encodings and psbook/psnup. What > >if you pdf2ps the lilypond-produced pdf file and use that as your > >starting point for psbook? > > It works fine wi

Re: ps changes betweeen 2.7.29 and 2.8.2 broke tabloid booklet

2006-05-14 Thread John Hawkinson
Argh. Well, this teaches me to reply to one email before reading the rest. Christian Conkle on lilypond-user reported a similar failure, and made me wonder if the patch I had posted had caused a behavior change. But since you're having the same problem without my patch, evidently not. Graham Perc

Re: gs 8.53 problems

2006-04-27 Thread John Hawkinson
Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 at 20:05:06 +0200 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Of course, I worry that this will just lead to more "crash my > > printer" -type problems :( :( > > Not more problems than you already have. Can't you use the `pswrite' > module of gs as a

Re: gs 8.53 problems

2006-04-27 Thread John Hawkinson
Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 at 18:43:08 +0200 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Han-Wen, is there any reason why we don't convert the Century fonts to > OTF, similar to the lilypond fonts? This would be another solution to > circumvent the bug. Of course, I worry that t

Re: Whither the switch to OpenType fonts? (they break my printer)

2006-04-20 Thread John Hawkinson
(Quoting Han-Wen) > yeah, I meant to quote the bit about buggy HP PS drivers Ah. I'm not sure what to do from here then. You said before: > Of course, if we can make our PS more conforming, I'm all for it, but I'm > opposed to (re)installing hacks for being compatible with broken hardware. Whi

Re: Whither the switch to OpenType fonts? (they break my printer)

2006-04-20 Thread John Hawkinson
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 at 16:49:04 -0300 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'd gladly have a patch for ascii-wrapping the OTF binary, because inserting > binary data in PS doesn't give me good vibes. If this is valid PS, we > should take the issue up with ghostscri

Whither the switch to OpenType fonts? (they break my printer)

2006-04-17 Thread John Hawkinson
on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 at 13:14:03 +0200 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It sure would be a fine thing if the PostScript could be sent to a > PostScript printer without problems. Great! --jhawk John Hawkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 at 21:34:22 -0400 in <[EM

Re: Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?

2006-04-16 Thread John Hawkinson
I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (quite a few hours ago...) on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 at 10:55:43 -0400 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > p.s.: In moving from LilyPond 2.6.3 to 2.9.2, I find that spooling > postscript crashes my HP LaserJet 8150DN. Haven't finished > figuring out why yet... I'll get there... It ap

Re: Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?

2006-04-16 Thread John Hawkinson
Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 at 13:46:16 +0200 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > +(display "\n%%BeginDefaults > > +%%PageMedia: a4 > > +%%EndDefaults\n" port) > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but was "BeginDefaults" not the method of choice > to say: if no other va

Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?

2006-04-16 Thread John Hawkinson
reading %%DocumentMedia (DSC-compliant document managers) or with the /PageSize setpagedevice key (printers; my forthcoming patch will do this). Anyhow, it looks to me that this code is just wrong. Can it just go away, please? (patch follows) [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Ha