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Re: ps and pdf question
From: |
Gilles Sadowski |
Subject: |
Re: ps and pdf question |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:15:24 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 |
Hello.
> > Anybody who wants to play tricks with ps files (and I am occasionally
> > one of them) is free to invoke lilypond --ps, so this is a red herring.
> > I agree with Laura: we should treat the .ps files are temporary and
> > delete them. I have a script that does this automatically, but I think
> > that deleting the .ps files is a good default option. Most users don't
> > want ps, and many users who investigate the ps files won't know how to
> > deal with them properly. Anybody who really wants a ps file can invoke
> > with --ps.
>
> What is the big deal with pdf?
> >From what I understand is that they are "portable", but most pdf's I
> get from others does not show up good or at all in gv, xpdf or evince.
> It seems that they are "portable" in the sens that work with ths latest
> Adobe acrobat.
>
> For me, pdf means trouble. Why should I ever want to produce pdf's?
>
> And btw, the pdf's produces by current lilypond does not print either
> on my (postscript) printer.
>
I also have problems when printing the pdf. And my postscript printer
doesn't like the ps produced by lilypond: it spits out pages and pages, each
one with a single error message on it, most of them about "unknown command".
>From an earlier message, I understand that it is probably related to the
binary font description in PS level 3.
So, I too, would rather have lilypond convert automatically to PS level 2.
Thanks,
Gilles
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Gilles Sadowski <=
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