Re: eps error

[Mats Bengtsson]

Sure, I already told you that it is a bug in LilyPond!
I just made some experiments and found several programs
that produce .eps files that don't work in LilyPond but
also several that produce .eps files that do work, so
it seems that some PostScript expertise is required to
fix the problems.

   /Mats

Aaron Mehl wrote:
> Well I made an eps not from the gimp and got the same
> error...
>
> Is my syntax for including the eps file ok??
>
> Thanks
> Aaron
>
> --- Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> > There seems to be some problem with including EPS
> > files from
> > GIMP, see 
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-08/msg00141.html
>
> > There are a number of different programs available
> > to convert between
> > different graphics formats. On Linux, for example,
> > the command 'convert'
> > from the ImageMagick package is extremely
> > convenient. I don't think it's
> > a good idea to try to include support for a lot of
> > different graphics
> > formats within LilyPond. (Even if it's implemented
> > by a call to
> > 'convert' or some other external program, it will
> > introduce yet another
> > dependency that can cause trouble for people who
> > want to install
> > LilyPond and for the LilyPond maintainers.)
> >
> > Still, the bug in \epsfile should be fixed, of
> > course.
> >
> >    /Mats
> >
> > Aaron Mehl wrote:
> >
> > > I tried putting an eps file in my header. I infact
> > > couldn't figure out how to do it until I looked in
> >
> > the
> >
> > > regression tests. That said lilypond itself didn't
> > > scream at me but this is what I got,
> > >
> > > 1st the header:
> > > subtitle = \markup { \epsfile #"numberframe.eps" }
> > >
> > > then the error:
> > > $ lilypond
> e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.ly
>
> > > GNU LilyPond 2.7.3
> > > Processing
> `e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.ly'
>
> > > Parsing...
> > > Interpreting music... [8][16][17]
> > > Preprocessing graphical objects...
> > > Calculating line breaks... [3][6][9][12][15][17]
> > > Interpreting music...
> > > Calculating page breaks...
> > > Layout output to
> `e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.ps'...
>
> > > MIDI output to
> `e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.midi'...
>
> > > Track...
> > > Converting to
> `e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.pdf'...
>
> > > `gs -q  -dSAFER  -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 
> > > -sPAPERSIZE="a4" -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 
> > > -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> -sOutputFile="e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.pdf"
>
> > > -c .setpdfwrite -f
> "e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.ps"'
>
> > > failed (256)
> > > error: failed files:
> "e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.ly"
>
> > > theone  ly $                                      
> >
> >   
> >
> > >                        
> > >
> > > my original eps was made with gimp so for this
> >
> > test I
> >
> > > used a eps converted from tiff2ps the eps2eps (I
> >
> > read
> >
> > > the thread about a problem with epses from the
> >
> > gimp)
> >
> > > Really was appears to be needed is support within
> > > lilypond for a wide range of graphic formats.
> > >
> > >
> > > Does anyone else need this and is willing to join
> >
> > in
> >
> > > to sponser this feature?
> > >
> > > Also who would determine how much it would cost to
> >
> > add
> >
> > > full graphic support?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Aaron
> > >
> > >
> > >                 
> >
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        Mats Bengtsson
        Signal Processing
        Signals, Sensors and Systems
        Royal Institute of Technology
        SE-100 44  STOCKHOLM
        Sweden
        Phone: (+46) 8 790 8463                         
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