Re: Help understanding print problem

[Dmytro O. Redchuk]

On Tue 19 Jul 2011, 16:15 Laura Conrad wrote:
> My guess is that this is not a lilypond bug, but there might be someone
> here who could shed light on how to report it, or better ways to work
> around it.
> 
> I have a PDF file
> <http://serpentpublications.org/music/dewilde/amours/allparts.pdf>,
> produced by lilypond-book with parts and score for a piece.  It looks as
Did you produce it with lilypond-book --> ps2pdf or with lilypond-book --pdf ?

My guess is that ps2pdf may behave wrongly here. However, since you can print
single score with no errors, I may be wrong.

You can try both ways, thought.

> I expect in xpdf.  For playing with my group, I need lots of copies of
> the parts, but only one of the score, so I printed out the parts with
> the options to xpdf which caused pages 1-6 to print out single-sided
Did you print via lpr -oDuplex=DuplexNoTumble -#<several_times> ? Or other
program/options?

I am not sure that I can be helpful here. However, who knows.

Btw, I would also try to produce "the same one -- several times" with pdfpages
and then try to print.

> several times.  Then I tried to print pages 7-9 (the score) double
> sided, and then single sided, and both times got pages with (some of
> the) staff lines and stems and brackets and text, but no note heads.
> 
> When I print the whole file single sided, the score prints as expected.
> 
> When it's not printing correctly, I get lots of error messages in the
> console window from which I invoked xpdf.  Here are some of them:
> 
> Error (1114123): Illegal character <12> in hex string
> Error (1114124): Illegal character <82> in hex string
> Error (1114125): Illegal character <82> in hex string
> Error (1114075): Illegal character '}'
> Error (1114126): Illegal character '>'
> Error: font resource is not a dictionary
> Error: font resource is not a dictionary
> Error: ExtGState 'R7' is unknown
> Error: Unknown font tag 'R8'
> Error (812121): No font in show
> Error: Unknown font tag 'R8'
> 
> This is lily 2.14.1, on ubuntu 10.10, with xpdf version 3.02, printing
> on a Brother HL-5250DN printer.  I would be happy to report this bad
> behavior if I had any idea which of the many programs involved in
> turning my lilypond code into black marks on paper was responsible.
> Does anyone have a better educated guess than I do for how to narrow the
> field of possible suspects?
> 
> -- 
> Laura   (mailto:address@hidden, twitter: @serpentplayer)
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> 
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> a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our
> permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a
> dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote
> it, that's all we wanted to do.
> 
> Woody Guthrie
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