Re: (semi-OT) making tabloid-sized booklets

[Christian Conkle]

> By the way, I'm sorry for not having had time to finish productionizing
> my PostScript patches. I expect I'll have time in late May.
>
> It is possible (even likely!) that using my patch is causing a problem
> for the psbook|psnup stage. Can you try without my patch to confirm?
>
> Also, does the psnup output look correct in gv if you change the
> viewing paper size?
>
> --jhawk

Now that I've finished the project (recording session Weds!), I've got some 
time to devote to debugging.  I'm thinking of writing a guide to preparing a 
full orchestral score, since it took me rather a while to figure everything 
out; it'd be nice to have all the relevant bits in one place.

I switched to 2.8.1; the problem for that version (with and without your 
patch--I'm making tabloid/letter booklets, not 9x12) is a bit different.  The 
Postscript output of Lilypond, after being rearranged by psbook (and also 
after psnup), crashes Ghostscript with the following error:

ERROR: /rangecheck in --get--
Operand stack:
   names   --nostringval--   1   2579   --nostringval--   9
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
--nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3 
%oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2 
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push 
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1119/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:91/200(L)-- 
--dict:53/72(ro)(G)--   --dict:10/30(L)--


I simply set up my Makefile to build a PDF first, run it through pdftops, and 
make the booklet from that file.  The result looks funny in gv: text is 
"washed-out" (white parts) and rendering is slow.  However, Acrobat reads 
(and, more importantly, prints) just fine.  (Once I figured out how to have it 
actually print onto 11x17 paper: on OSX it's in a dialog completely seperate 
from "Print"!)

-Christian