Re: lilypond pdf error/warning messages from Evince

[Francisco Vila]

2011/12/16 Martin Tarenskeen <address@hidden>:
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Francisco Vila wrote:
>>> Entity: line 5: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate
>>> encoding !
>>> Bytes: 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF
>>> <rdf:Description
>>> rdf:about='52da2502-5ec5-11ec-0000-73b663e6b6f????????????&#143;uuid:52
>>> Entity: line 5: parser error : xmlParseCharRef: invalid xmlChar value 16
>>> ??????&#143;uuid:52da2502-5ec5-11ec-0000-73b663e6b6f2011-12-15T00:10:12+01:00kO&#16;
>> All the errors come from metadata sections in your PDF and yes, they
>> are put there by GhostScript. So, no LilyPond bug here.
>
> I have found that if use Lilypond to create a .ps file, and then manually
> convert this to pdf using the scripts provided by the ghostscript package:
>
> - if I use ps2pdf, ps2pdf14, or ps2pdfwr I will get all these error messages
> - if I use ps2pdf12 or ps2pdf13 I will not get any error messages

Interesting.  Look at the metadata sections into the PDF (lines
simliar to the above) and spot the difference.

It is worth noting that other PDF viewers do not complain and the
document is always shown, so that errors in metadata do not block
printing/viewing the document.  Not too critical.

-- 
Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
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