Re: eps error

[Mats Bengtsson]

There seems to be some problem with including EPS files from
GIMP, see 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-08/msg00141.html

There are a number of different programs available to convert between
different graphics formats. On Linux, for example, the command 'convert'
from the ImageMagick package is extremely convenient. I don't think it's
a good idea to try to include support for a lot of different graphics
formats within LilyPond. (Even if it's implemented by a call to
'convert' or some other external program, it will introduce yet another
dependency that can cause trouble for people who want to install
LilyPond and for the LilyPond maintainers.)

Still, the bug in \epsfile should be fixed, of course.

   /Mats

Aaron Mehl wrote:
> I tried putting an eps file in my header. I infact
> couldn't figure out how to do it until I looked in the
> regression tests. That said lilypond itself didn't
> scream at me but this is what I got,
>
> 1st the header:
> subtitle = \markup { \epsfile #"numberframe.eps" }
>
> then the error:
> $ lilypond
> e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.ly
> GNU LilyPond 2.7.3
> Processing
> `e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music... [8][16][17]
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Calculating line breaks... [3][6][9][12][15][17]
> Interpreting music...
> Calculating page breaks...
> Layout output to
> `e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.ps'...
> MIDI output to
> `e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.midi'...
> Track...
> Converting to
> `e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.pdf'...
> `gs -q  -dSAFER  -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 
> -sPAPERSIZE="a4" -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 
> -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> -sOutputFile="e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.pdf"
> -c .setpdfwrite -f
> "e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.ps"'
> failed (256)
> error: failed files:
> "e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.ly"
> theone  ly $                                          
>                         
>
> my original eps was made with gimp so for this test I
> used a eps converted from tiff2ps the eps2eps (I read
> the thread about a problem with epses from the gimp)
>
>
> Really was appears to be needed is support within
> lilypond for a wide range of graphic formats.
>
>
> Does anyone else need this and is willing to join in
> to sponser this feature?
>
> Also who would determine how much it would cost to add
> full graphic support?
>
> Thanks
> Aaron
>
>
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