Re: Problem with EPS and Scribus

[Erik Sandberg]

On Friday 27 January 2006 20.08, Alexandre B wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > Erik Sandberg wrote:
> > > On Friday 27 January 2006 06.40, Alexandre B wrote:
> > >>Hi community,
> > >>
> > >>I don't really know where to show this bug, is it in this list, or in a
> > >>Lilypond bug tracker, or even in Scribus' mailing lists and tracker,
> > >> but I'll start here.
> > >>
> > >>If you download http://www.bourget.cc/dump/lily-eps.tar.gz and try to
> > >>Import one of the included EPS file into Scribus, the lyrics get all
> > >>jerky.
> > >>
> > >>I'd like to know if this is something on lilypond's side or Scribus' ?
> > >> If it's on lilypond's side, do you think it would be something easily
> > >> fixed ?
> > >>
> > >>By the way, I filed a similar bug report in Scribus's mantis
> > >> bugtracker.
> >
> > For reasons of space saving, the
> >
> >    lily-XXXXXX-Y.eps
> >
> > files don't embed fonts.  They are not meant to be imported directly,
> > but rather, to be used by LaTeX
>
> Hello,
>
> I tried with both lily-xxxxxxx-y.eps and lily-xxxxxxx.eps. Of course, the
> -xxxxxxxx-y.eps version appears with almost nothing inside it, but the
> problem is with the -xxxxxxx.eps version, the one with embedded fonts (and
> I also played with the options of lilypond-book to embed fonts in every
> .eps (even the xxxxxx-y.eps ones), but this doesn't change anything to the
> Scribus importation.

One quick workaround can be to produce normal .ps/.pdf output from a .ly file, 
(with tagline=""), and then play randomly with ps2eps, ps2ps and ps2epsi 
until you get a cropped file which scribus understands. That solution usually 
works for me.

-- 
Erik