Just open the PDF file in Acrobat and check the page size
(File -> Document properties). For letter size scores, it should
say 8.50 x 11.0 inch (at least if you configured Acrobat to use
inch). If that's OK, check the Print setup in Acrobat and make sure
that it doesn't try to print on A4 and scale the output to fit.
Also, run lilypond with the --verbose flag and check out that the
call to gs at the end includes a flag -sPAPERSIZE="letter".
/Mats
Michael Haynie wrote:
I am using the app version (I'm unable to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.4
for other reasons, so can't use the newest fink, either), so dvips is
not involved.
I set the vsize in the paper block, and was able to control the
length of the page, so I have a reasonable work around for the basic
problem.
However, I'm now convinced that I'm seeing a real bug (though nearly
trivial to fix)-- the paper size for letter doesn't account for the
required machine borders (typically 1/2" at each margin, for a total
reduction of 1"). This might also be true for other paper sizes --
but I'm unable to test those. I looked around in the ly sources for
a set of paper definitions, but didn't find anything. Does anyone
know where the dimensions for e.g. letter paper are set? I'd guess
that 5 minutes with a ruler and that file would allow me to determine
the most likely wrong dimension (vsize, at a guess).
thanks.
On Oct 23, 2005, at 4:44 AM, Erik Sandberg wrote:
On Sunday 23 October 2005 09.02, Graham Percival wrote:
On 22-Oct-05, at 9:39 PM, Michael Haynie wrote:
I've noticed that Lilypond consistently produces pages that are
roughly 1/2 a line too long, with the result that my footer line is
cut off.
It's not actually lilypond; it's dvips.
No, it can't be dvips. Since 2.6, lily doesn't go via tex/dvi, so
dvips is
never invoked. The .ps file is created directly, so this must be a
problem
specific to lily.
I don't know anything about letter size papers, since I only have
used a4
myself. But IIRC, there is an example in regression tests, which
demonstrates
how page sizes can be completely customised.
--
Erik
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