Re: lilypondfile

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

On 2012-08-28 02:12, pabuhr wrote:
> Is there a way to generate an eps file directly as for a ps file? I need the
> bounding box to include the exact output into latex (I'm not using pdflatex).
> I tried manually converting the ps to eps: ps2pdf generates a file that is
> unusable (go figure), and "convert" generates a low quality image (maybe one of
> the many parameters can fix this). Using command-line option "backend=eps" does
> generate a eps file but it's not the same as the original because it is for
> lilypond-book

I see no reason why there should be a difference. the eps backend is 
used by lilypond-book, but it should be usable on its own, too.

lilypond -dbackend=eps file.ly

should generate the exact same layout as the pdf file (except that the 
output is cropped). In fact, lilypond first does the whole layout and 
only then generates the output file (ps/pdf, eps, png, svg, ...) from 
the final layout.



> (and it generates a lot of extra files).

lilypond -dhelp

shows that there is an aux-files=#f option to lilypond:

lilypond -dbackend=eps -daux-files=#f file.ly

should be what you are after...

Cheers,
Reinhold


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