Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-19 Thread Johan Vromans
"Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is simple - if I select "scale to fit" then I'm not > getting an exact image, and if I select "don't scale", the image is > offset down and right by the non-printable margin. If the A4 document that you want to print includes (= leav

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-19 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Anthony W. Youngman wrote: And IME (and I stress IME) pdf doesn't do what it says on the tin, anyway! In other words, it does NOT print accurately. I would LIKE to be able to print an A4 pdf on a sheet of A4 paper. It s

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: And IME (and I stress IME) pdf doesn't do what it says on the tin, anyway! In other words, it does NOT print accurately. I would LIKE to be able to print an A4 pdf on a sheet of A4 paper. It seems to me, however, that whatever I do, Acrobat always sticks the top lef

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-19 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karl Hammar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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 temporar

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Karl Hammar wrote: Yes, that could do it, but one have to add the paper size: $ ps2ps -dLanguageLevel=2 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 in.ps out.ps or (which is the same) $ gs -q -sDEVICE=pswrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dLanguageLevel=2 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=out.ps in.ps That depends on your install

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-14 Thread Karl Hammar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Karl Hammar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What is the big deal with pdf? > > It is only with PDF that one can have hyperlinks in the document for > example. Yes and no, you could probably do the same with e.g. a wordprocessor, html, display postscript, with different pros a

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-14 Thread Karl Hammar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> So, I too, would rather have lilypond convert automatically to PS > >> level 2. > > > > You can do this manually, saying > > > > gs -sDEVICE=pswrite \ > > -dLanguageLevel=2 \ > > -sOutputFile=foo-level2.ps \ > >

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-14 Thread Johan Vromans
Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So, I too, would rather have lilypond convert automatically to PS >> level 2. > > You can do this manually, saying > > gs -sDEVICE=pswrite \ > -dLanguageLevel=2 \ > -sOutputFile=foo-level2.ps \ > foo.ps Ghostscript comes with a tool '

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-14 Thread Gilles Sadowski
> > > So, I too, would rather have lilypond convert automatically to PS > > level 2. > > You can do this manually, saying > > gs -sDEVICE=pswrite \ > -dLanguageLevel=2 \ > -sOutputFile=foo-level2.ps \ > foo.ps > That's what I'm doing currently. But I sometimes forget... > Mak

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> So, I too, would rather have lilypond convert automatically to PS > level 2. You can do this manually, saying gs -sDEVICE=pswrite \ -dLanguageLevel=2 \ -sOutputFile=foo-level2.ps \ foo.ps Making LilyPond emit level 2 is problematic since it relies on level 3 features. W

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-13 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hello list, hello Gilles, You wrote: > So, I too, would rather have lilypond convert automatically to PS level 2. Me too. :-) Best Regards Roland ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/li

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-13 Thread Gilles Sadowski
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,

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-13 Thread Christopher Culver
Karl Hammar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the big deal with pdf? It is only with PDF that one can have hyperlinks in the document for example. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-u

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-13 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
> 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. > > Regards > /Karl > Well, I can print pdf but no ps level 3 with my printer. But: I would like to print LilyPond gen

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-13 Thread Karl Hammar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > 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 automaticall

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-13 Thread Karl Hammar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Tim Reeves escreveu: > > Tom wrote: > > . . . a somewhat unrelated question: In the creation of a PDF output > > file, LilyPond creates an intermediate PostScript file. That > > PostScript file is sometimes viewable using gv and sometimes it gives > > some errors. But it neve

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-12 Thread Graham Percival
James E. Bailey wrote: This would be a bad idea from my point of view, because in order to generate a pdf that's on a non-standard sheet of paper, I must use the postscript, so not having that file would make it impossible for me to generate a file that prints on, say, 9"x12" paper. On Frida

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-12 Thread James E. Bailey
This would be a bad idea from my point of view, because in order to generate a pdf that's on a non-standard sheet of paper, I must use the postscript, so not having that file would make it impossible for me to generate a file that prints on, say, 9"x12" paper. On Friday, January 12, 2007, at 0

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-12 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Han-Wen" == Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> My question is: can one dispense with the Postscript file >> altogether? I just use the pdf and always delete the ps file. >> Is there a way to save a step and processing time by just not >> producing the ps file in

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-12 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Tim Reeves escreveu: > > Tom wrote: > > . . . a somewhat unrelated question: In the creation of a PDF output > file, LilyPond creates an intermediate PostScript file. That > PostScript file is sometimes viewable using gv and sometimes it gives > some errors. But it never prints on any printer I

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-12 Thread John Mandereau
Le vendredi 12 janvier 2007 à 11:01 -0800, Tim Reeves a écrit : > Tom wrote: > >. . . a somewhat unrelated question: In the creation of a PDF output > >file, LilyPond creates an intermediate PostScript file. That > >PostScript file is sometimes viewable using gv and sometimes it gives > >some err

Re: ps and pdf question

2007-01-12 Thread Tim Reeves
Tom wrote: . . . a somewhat unrelated question: In the creation of a PDF output file, LilyPond creates an intermediate PostScript file. That PostScript file is sometimes viewable using gv and sometimes it gives some errors. But it never prints on any printer I tried it on (several HP models, Ges