Hi Valentin,
thank you for the reply!
Yes, I found the solution of exporting into svg. The eps format, for me, would have been more preferable in those situations where I have to import the graphics into some other software that doesn't accept svg, only eps. So I'll have to make a second convertion step, no problem.
About the Lilypond-generated eps, I noticed that, if I open it with notepad, it reveals some encryption-like glyphs which make it impossible to decrypt the content. I'm curious, also in that, to understand the reason.
Thank you again for your help!
rip
Hi Rip,
the problem is that while Lilypond will embed the glyphs into the eps it will
reference them with a simple sequence. This cannot really be interpreted as
text (the first glyph will be referenced as "1", which is the "Start of
Heading" character). So either this will in fact fail to extract this glyph at
all, or it will turn it into a string containing a simple CC, which is then of
course not displayed.
If you include enough glyphs you will get normal chars (try for example this
#(define glyph-list
(lset-difference
equal?
(ly:otf-glyph-list (ly:system-font-load "emmentaler-20"))
'(".notdef" "backslash")))
\markuplist #(map (lambda (x) (markup #:musicglyph x))
glyph-list)
), but these will probably simply be rendered with any font available on the
system instead of the actual glyphs (unless AI does a thing where it tries to
reconstruct the font from the embedded glyphs, which would defintely require
more effort than simply importing the glyphs and replacing the font references
with references to these glyphs, which AI does not appear to be doing in this
case.
But then this is not really an issue of Lilypond but of how AI imports file
with such glyphsets. Also going into AI via eps seems a bit counterintuitive
for me. After all PS is not particularly good at storing data in a machine
readable way, so AI will have to try to interpret what it sees. Instead, why
not go for SVG-Output, which is a format that is intended to store data in a
machine readable way and simply has to be parsed by AI? In fact the SVG output
will not store these glyphs as font references, but will insert paths, getting
rid of all dependencies to specfic font files (although I remember that with
much earlier versions like I think 2.18 this was not the case).
Cheers,
Valentin
Am Dienstag, 8. November 2022, 10:39:54 CET schrieb Rip _Mus:
> Good morning,
> I noticed that if a score is exported in eps format, I'm not able to open
> the eps correctly in Illustrator. It renders the staff line, but not the
> other symbols included in the encapsulated font (Emmentaler, the default
> one).
> I'm running Lilypond 2.22.1 on Windows 10.
> Is it a known issue or am I doing something wrong?
>
> Thank you
>
> rip_mus