Re: Embedded preview in output EPS files

[Mats Bengtsson]

Why not create a BAT script (or whatever scripting language you prefer) that
first calls LilyPond and then epstool?

LilyPond already contains too many dependencies to external programs,
and I guess the main hackers don't want yet another external program that
has to be included in the LilyPond installation package and kept up to date.

I hope you know about OOoLilyPond, http://ooolilypond.sourceforge.net/
which automatically handles all the steps you have to do manually today.
I have never tried it myself, but from the information at the web page, I
get the impression that they even include a preview for EPS files.

  /Mats

Clifford W. Racz wrote:
> I read the manual.
> I searched the source code.
>
> To use an EPS file in a word processing document (such as MS Word), I 
> am using a command like this:
>
>   lilypond -b eps --png --pdf foobar.ly
>
> The EPS prints fine, but there is no embedded preview in the file.  
> That is completely understood.  The documentation shows no option for 
> adding a bitmapped preview to the EPS so that it will show up in the 
> word processing document.
>
> I can create one with commands like:
>
>   epstool -t6p foobar.eps fooNew.eps
>   epstool -w foobar.eps fooW.eps
>
> Is there a way that this can be done directly with LilyPond?
> I think that if the PNG could be embedded as a preview for the *.eps 
> files, that would be exactly what I am looking for.
>
> I am not very familiar with Scheme, so while I can tell in those *.scm 
> instructions, there are relating lines of code, but I don't know what 
> they mean.
>
> Please do not confuse my question with the preview functionality:
>
>   lilypond --preview foobar.ly
>
> This is a preview of the music, not an embedded bitmap of the EPS file.
>
> System information:
> I am using v2.10.23 on the Windows platform
> I would like to include about 100 snippets into a music book that I am 
> assisting a committee with.  So, they will not understand the concept 
> that music can print but not show up on the screen.  They are Windows 
> users, and expect that this source document will be available in MS 
> Word for them.
>
> ******************************************************************************** 
>
> %foobar.ly source
> #(set! toplevel-score-handler print-score-with-defaults)
> #(set! toplevel-music-handler
> (lambda (p m)
>  (if (not (eq? (ly:music-property m 'void) #t))
>       (print-score-with-defaults
>        p (scorify-music m p)))))
>
> #(ly:set-option (quote no-point-and-click))
> #(define inside-lilypond-book #t)
> #(define version-seen #t)
>
> \paper {
> #(define dump-extents #t)
> indent = 0\mm
> line-width = 160\mm - 2.0 * 0.4\in
> ragged-right = ##t
> force-assignment = #""
> line-width = #(- line-width (* mm  3.000000))
> }
>
> \layout {
> \context {
> \Staff
> \remove Time_signature_engraver
> }
> }
>
> \relative c'
> {
> \sourcefileline 42
> c d e f g a b c d e f g a b c d e f g'
> }
> ******************************************************************************** 
>
>
>
>
>
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