Re: Importing PDF into Adobe Illustrator

2007-02-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
A simpler way to get a bitmapped version of the score is the --png flag to lilypond directly. However, I really recommend to stick to vector graphics as far as possible. /Mats Fred Leason wrote: Your goal is to create an 8.5x11 pdf with some text and the jewel case sized graphic. And you want

Re: Importing PDF into Adobe Illustrator

2007-02-22 Thread Fred Leason
Your goal is to create an 8.5x11 pdf with some text and the jewel case sized graphic. And you want to avoid importing the PDF into Illustrator because Illustrator wants to reformat everything and is not doing that well. Rather than using Illustrator, why not try a raster graphics package like

Re: Importing PDF into Adobe Illustrator

2007-02-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
One solution to get full flexibility over the page layout is to use lilypond-book with a LaTeX document as the main document. /Mats Quoting Michael David Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thanks Fred, That will work for me, but I'd like to also supply the case insert as a PDF on my website - my

Re: Importing PDF into Adobe Illustrator

2007-02-22 Thread Michael David Crawford
Thanks Fred, That will work for me, but I'd like to also supply the case insert as a PDF on my website - my whole CD is Creative Commons-licensed, so I offer free downloads of it. But I was only trying to use Illustrator to position the score on the paper. Maybe it would work to position it

Re: Importing PDF into Adobe Illustrator

2007-02-22 Thread Fred Leason
If you are merely queuing the cover to the printer, why don't you just define a custom Paper Size for your printer. Preview can make it fit top and left justified. In Preview, hit File / Page Setup. The third pull-down is "Paper Size:" pull down and select "Manage Custom Sizes." On the "C

Re: Importing PDF into Adobe Illustrator

2007-02-22 Thread Trevor Bača
On 2/22/07, Michael David Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Again, I'm still working on my CD jewel case insert. I can now make a PDF in Lilypond that is the right size. But I tried to import it into Adobe Illustrator 10 for the Mac to position it on the printed page - otherwise it gets p

Re: Importing PDF into Adobe Illustrator

2007-02-22 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The fonts should be embedded in the PDF files, but it's a well-known problem that Adobe Illustrator fails to handle many aspects of PDF and PS files, even though both PS and PDF have been defined by Adobe themselves. One possibility might be to use ps2ps, included in the Ghostscript distributi

Re: Importing PDF into Adobe Illustrator

2007-02-22 Thread Ole Hesprich
Hi Michael, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I place the PDF in my Illustrator window, I get this message: > Missing Type 1 fonts have been substituted with the default font. Why not using an EPS-File instead of PDF? Greetings, Ole ___ lilypo