Re: Single EPS file trimmed output

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno gio 29 dic 2022 alle 11:14:03 +0100, Mauro 
<mauro.mithrandir@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a large repository of scores which are currently being built 
> as eps documents using the following command:
>
> lilypond -E -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts file.ly
>
> This command, up to version 2.22, generates a single eps file 
> (file.eps) trimmed down to just the size of the score.
>
> I recently upgraded from lilypond 2.22.2 to 2.24.0 and the same 
> command now produces a full-page output. After searching the lists 
> and the documentation, I understand that I have to set 
> 'use-paper-size-for-page' to false in order to get a trimmed down 
> output, but I do not understand how to get a single eps file.
>
> I have tried different combinations of command line args. I am only 
> able to generate two output files (file.eps and file-1.eps), both of 
> them identical and trimmed down, with the following command:
>
> lilypond -E -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts 
> -dno-use-paper-size-for-page demo.ly
>
> Is this how it is supposed to work? Why is lilypond generating a 
> second identical file with -1 suffix?
>
> I could easily remove the second file (file-1.eps) in my build chain, 
> but I wonder if I am missing something.


There was a similar discussions last month:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2022-11/msg00047.html

In your example I would add a \pageBreak to get a better understanding 
of what lilypond does.
I cannot open EPS files currently, but as far as I can see from the 
file manager thumbnails the first file is the two page file, while 
-1.eps and -2.eps are the single pages. They are different:

$ ls -lh *.eps
-rw-r--r--. 1 fede fede 157K 29 dic 14.40 demo-1.eps
-rw-r--r--. 1 fede fede 156K 29 dic 14.40 demo-2.eps
-rw-r--r--. 1 fede fede 158K 29 dic 14.40 demo.eps