Re: Generating cropped PDFs

[David Kastrup]

Mojca Miklavec <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I would occasionally like to create cropped PDFs (either entirely
> cropped or with some reasonable/configurable margin) without having to
> guess the size of the paper for each snippet.
>
> I found a page which seems to contain reasonable answers:
>
> <http://superuser.com/questions/96970/lilypond-is-there-a-way-to-auto-crop-the-paper>
>
> but:
>
> 1.) Even if both -dpreview and \include "lilypond-book-preamble.ly"
> from the first answer create cropped PDFs, the fonts are screwed up (I
> get some very weird ugly font). I'm not sure if this is a bug or not.

2.19.45 got a really bad font bug when creating multiple output files.
A fix is in the queue.  Revert back to 2.19.44 for now.  I think the fix
is not yet committed to the repository, so even using a current checkout
will not help here.

-- 
David Kastrup