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Re: bad description of -dcrop


From: Federico Bruni
Subject: Re: bad description of -dcrop
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 08:27:45 +0100

I've added the issue:
https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5286/

Il giorno mar 27 feb 2018 alle 16:44, =?iso-8859-1?q?=C9tienne_Beaul=E9?= <address@hidden> ha scritto:
"all the music in a single page output file" is correct, as it is the cropped eps/pdf files that we're talking about, which is not separated by page.

2018-02-27 3:25 GMT-04:00 Knut Petersen <address@hidden>:
Hi Federico, Étienne!
This is perfect!


I suggest this description:
Compress all the music in a single page output file. Margins, page numbers and tagline are removed from the output.

It's not perfect, its wrong.

An example: zzztest.ly contains one score that results in a pdf with two pages if "lilypond zzztest" is used to compile the source. But other backends give different results:
address@hidden:~/test> lilypond --eps --pdf -dcrop zzztest.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.21.0
Processing `zzztest.ly'
[....]
Layout output to `zzztest.eps'...
Converting to `zzztest.pdf'...
Layout output to `zzztest-1.eps'...
Layout output to `zzztest-2.eps'...
Converting to `./zzztest-1.pdf'...
Converting to `./zzztest-2.pdf'...
Layout output to `zzztest.cropped.eps'...
Converting to `zzztest.cropped.pdf'...
Converting to PNG...
Success: compilation successfully completed
You see that "all the music in a single page output file" is wrong as here also cropped eps/pdf images of every page are produced.

I remember that it is necessary to note that a bit of white space introduced by e.g. an empty *Markup and a minimum-distance/padding etc might remain.

This can be fixed with e.g.
\paper {
    [...]
    oddHeaderMarkup      = ##f
    evenHeaderMarkup     = ##f
    oddFooterMarkup      = ##f
    evenFooterMarkup     = ##f
    bookTitleMarkup      = ##f
    scoreTitleMarkup     = ##f
}
(I know that some but not all of those settings are necessary for the described purpose, but I don't have the time to test that now.)

Knut





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