Re: Backend EPS issue

[Rick Hansen (aka RickH)]

Yes I have both CutePDF and GS installed on XP.  However I did change my
environment PATH variable to search for lily bin first, the gs next:  here
is my system PATH variable:

C:\Program
Files\LilyPond\usr\bin;C:\gs\gs8.50\bin;C:\gs\gs8.50\lib;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program
Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\

in Control Panel / System / Advanced / EnvironmentVariables dialog box

With this setup Lily will basically ignore the "other" copy of gs, but
CutePDF still knows where it's (newer) copy is.





Cameron Horsburgh wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 07:14:36PM -0700, Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote:
>> 
>> To all,
>> 
>> This "bug" is apparently a problem on my Windows 2000 machine only.  I
>> retried my experiment on a newer Windows XP computer and backend EPS
>> works
>> flawlessly.
>> 
>> Beautiful sharp output, that blows away the PNG's.  Still no wysiwyg in
>> MSWord, but when I render my MSWord doc to PDF all the snippets show up,
>> my
>> pre-press will be PDF anyway, MSWord is just a word processor...  wysiwyg
>> is
>> not a big issue I know what all the rectangles mean anyway.
>> 
>> Please disregard my earlier post.
>> 
> This reminds me of an issue I currently have. I was always able
> to print LilyPond scores from my work machine (Windows XP) until I
> installed CutePDF and Ghostscript. Since then I seem to have had
> similar issues with missing noteheads and so forth. Do you have these
> installed on your XP machine?
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote:
>> > 
>> > V.2.9.22 fresh install after running uninstall of 2.9.21, on Win
>> 2000... 
>> > 
>> > I've been encountering some issues using backend EPS output in my Word
>> > processor documents and subsequent gs processing.  I am using the
>> > following command options to create small musical fragments for
>> inclusion
>> > in other documents:
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > lilypond -b eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts myfile.ly 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Here are the issues, some have work-arounds others don’t: 
>> > 
>> > 1) When I include the lily produced EPS in my Word document, it just
>> > appears as a blank rectangle (of proper size).  This is OK because when
>> I
>> > actually print the document, or "virtual print" it to a ghostscript
>> > virtual PDF converter like CutePDF.  The EPS rectangle does print the
>> > music (beautifully but partially) see next point.
>> > 
>> > 2) The EPS rectangle contains the music however many "parts" are simply
>> > missing, for example note heads are missing, but stems are there, ties
>> are
>> > there, but accidentals are missing, grace note heads are missing, clef
>> is
>> > present, as well as time signature and the staff symbol itself is
>> there,
>> > etc.  I have not documented all the "pieces" that are missing, but
>> > obviously something is awry in the font-embedding to cause random
>> missing
>> > characters, I assume.
>> > 
>> > 3) The third issues occurs when viewing the gs prduced PDF through
>> Adobe
>> > reader.  If I click on the area of the page where the EPS rectangle is,
>> > Adobe says that it is attempting to "contact a web site" then gives a
>> > normal file path to a path on the machine that created the original
>> EPS. 
>> > I'm assuming it's probably looking for the missing fonts?  When I click
>> > that rectangle of music in Adobe Reader it launches a DOS window (maybe
>> > gs, don’t know?), but the document does not change.  I would rather not
>> > see any click behavior with a non-interactive PDF print document.
>> > 
>> > 4) Finally if I take one of the backend EPS files created by lily and
>> just
>> > use ghostscript to convert it to PDF, the same issues (2 and 3) above
>> > still occur in Adobe Reader.  I think this kind of eliminates MSWord as
>> > the culprit.  I use CutePDF to convert Windows applications print
>> output
>> > to PDF, CutePDF is just a freeware "virtual printer" shell wrapped
>> around
>> > gs, "impersonating" a printer, then puts up a SaveAs dialog to save the
>> > PDF.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve these problems? 
>> > 
>> > I really like the output of using EPS over PNG for imbedding music into
>> > other documents.  The quality of the EPS vs. the PNG is like day and
>> > night, with the EPS being crystal clear, albeit missing note heads, and
>> > making Adobe Reader act weird right now.
>> > 
>> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Or can someone possibly
>> > double-check the code that does the font embedding to EPS for a
>> possible
>> > bug related to at-least the accidentals and note heads?  Or maybe a
>> > possible bug that is causing Adobe to think it needs to reference an
>> > external URL in order to render?  I will be glad to be your test case
>> for
>> > any new code.
>> > 
>> > Are the fonts maybe hosed on my machine?  Is there any kind of clean up
>> > and reinstall I should try first? 
>> > 
>> > Lily itself works fine otherwise. 
>> > 
>> > Thanks, 
>> > Rick 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> 
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