Re: problem with Illustrator exported eps using \epsfile

[David Wright]

On Fri 06 May 2016 at 01:14:11 (+0200), Thomas Morley wrote:
> 2016-05-06 0:34 GMT+02:00 Ryan Michael <address@hidden>:
> > Forgive me. The error is:
> >
> > lilypond/current/scm/stencil.scm:779:26: Wrong type argument in position 1:
> > #f
> >
> > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> On 06.05.2016 00:14, Ryan Michael wrote:
> >>> I have the following snippet
> >>>
> >>> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >>>
> >>> <a' e'>2\fermata^\markup{
> >>>      \epsfile #X #20 #"recorder_fingering.eps"
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >>>
> >>> Where I use an eps file generated from Adobe Illustrator.
> >>> Here is the .eps file
> >>>
> >>> http://www.mediafire.com/download/f3st88sh146vbja/recorder_fingering.eps

I used wget on that address and got an HTML page. So I browsed instead,
and got taken to a download button with 846.19KB inscribed on it.

> >>> I have had this problem before. I don't know how to solve it.
> >>
> >> And what _is_ the problem? :-)
> 
> I've no idea what Adobe Illustrator thinks it is doing.
> I had a hard time to open it in any text-editor, most of them simply crashed.
> 
> Then I opened it with gimp and stored it without any change under a
> different name.
> Now it works on my machine.

Your new attachment is 11KB of base64, or just 8643 bytes!
(I left the problem alone.)

Cheers,
David.