Re: Generating EPS with lilypond

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Michel Goossens wrote:
> > Have you tried opening the EPS in other programs? Moreover, have you tried 
> > opening it in GSView after unchecking 'Safer' on the tools menu? I don't 
> > myself know the reason why, but this is required to view a 
> > Lilypond-generated .ps file, so it may well be the same for an .eps file.

> This is not the problem. The fact is that the EPS does not contain the 
> fonts, and hence references a filename (the OTP font source) that is not
> present. Also, the bounding box is wrong. Hence the ifrts question:
>
> what is the correct way to generate an EPS file (the music piece is
> only two staves, so I do not want the output area to cover the whole
> A4 page, but only the area occupied by the music. 


try

  lilypond -b eps bla.ly

and set

  tagline = ##f

in the

  \header {}

the bla.eps file contains fonts depending on the program initialization.

Use the -dno-gs-font-load to force font embedding.


Graham, maybe this should be mentioned (esp. the tagline trick) in the 
manual?

You can also run

  -deps-font-include

which will cause the individual per-system EPS files to contain fonts.


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