Re: including eps file

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Orm Finnendahl <address@hidden>:

> Am 30. Mai 2006, 02:45 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys:
> > Are you sure that this
> > is a bonafide EPS file?
>
> I'm not sure as the file got generated by a selfmade lisp program, but
> it gets opened and displayed by ghostview, Illustrator, Finale and
> gimp without errors or warnings and convert doesn't complain
> either. The postscript code is fairly straightforward, but I'm by no
> means a postscript expert.

One thing I noticed is that you set the bounding box to include lots of 
whitespace, which probably explains why it fills the whole page
and shifts the music off the page.


> > If in doubt, try with a normal EPS (eg. a PNG converted to EPS with
> > convert or similar.)
>
> I did that just to be sure. Now lilypond gives the following error:
>
> ----------------
> Compilation started at Tue May 30 10:01:58
>
> lilypond -f pdf /home/orm/work/kompositionen/violine/lilypond/k_g01.ly
> GNU LilyPond 2.8.0
> Processing `/home/orm/work/kompositionen/violine/lilypond/k_g01.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music... [1]
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Calculating line breaks... [2]
> Interpreting music...
> MIDI output to `k_g01.midi'...
> Track...
> Calculating page breaks...
> Layout output to `k_g01.ps'...
> Converting to `k_g01.pdf'...
> `gs -q  -dSAFER  -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4  -sPAPERSIZE="a3" -dNOPAUSE 
> -dBATCH -r1200  -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="k_g01.pdf" -c 
> .setpdfwrite -f "k_g01.ps"' failed (256)
> error: failed files: "/home/orm/work/kompositionen/violine/lilypond/k_g01.ly"
>
> Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Tue May 30 10:02:01
> ---------------------------

It seems that you used an EPS file that caused even larger problems, 
since ghostscript failed.

> > X = 0 ,  Y = 1
>
> Thanks. That means, if aligned along the horizontal axis (parallel to
> the staff system), the syntax should be:
>
> \epsfile #0 #5 #"part01.eps"
>
> right?

You can actually say

\epsfile #X ...

which is easier to remember.

  /Mats