Re: eps error

[Aaron Mehl]

Well I made an eps not from the gimp and got the same
error...

Is my syntax for including the eps file ok??

Thanks
Aaron

--- Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:

> There seems to be some problem with including EPS
> files from
> GIMP, see 
>
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-08/msg00141.html
> 
> There are a number of different programs available
> to convert between
> different graphics formats. On Linux, for example,
> the command 'convert'
> from the ImageMagick package is extremely
> convenient. I don't think it's
> a good idea to try to include support for a lot of
> different graphics
> formats within LilyPond. (Even if it's implemented
> by a call to
> 'convert' or some other external program, it will
> introduce yet another
> dependency that can cause trouble for people who
> want to install
> LilyPond and for the LilyPond maintainers.)
> 
> Still, the bug in \epsfile should be fixed, of
> course.
> 
>     /Mats
> 
> Aaron Mehl wrote:
> > I tried putting an eps file in my header. I infact
> > couldn't figure out how to do it until I looked in
> the
> > regression tests. That said lilypond itself didn't
> > scream at me but this is what I got,
> > 
> > 1st the header:
> > subtitle = \markup { \epsfile #"numberframe.eps" }
> > 
> > then the error:
> > $ lilypond
> >
>
e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.ly
> > GNU LilyPond 2.7.3
> > Processing
> >
>
`e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.ly'
> > Parsing...
> > Interpreting music... [8][16][17]
> > Preprocessing graphical objects...
> > Calculating line breaks... [3][6][9][12][15][17]
> > Interpreting music...
> > Calculating page breaks...
> > Layout output to
> >
>
`e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.ps'...
> > MIDI output to
> >
>
`e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.midi'...
> > Track...
> > Converting to
> >
>
`e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.pdf'...
> > `gs -q  -dSAFER  -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 
> > -sPAPERSIZE="a4" -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 
> > -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> >
>
-sOutputFile="e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.pdf"
> > -c .setpdfwrite -f
> >
>
"e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.ps"'
> > failed (256)
> > error: failed files:
> >
>
"e4e8a4gis8e4gis8.gis16gis4gis8.e16a8d4d8.d16e2.e16a8.gis16a8c8.b16c8b4b8b8.-ra.ly"
> > theone  ly $                                      
>    
> >                         
> > 
> > my original eps was made with gimp so for this
> test I
> > used a eps converted from tiff2ps the eps2eps (I
> read
> > the thread about a problem with epses from the
> gimp)
> > 
> > 
> > Really was appears to be needed is support within
> > lilypond for a wide range of graphic formats.
> > 
> > 
> > Does anyone else need this and is willing to join
> in
> > to sponser this feature?
> > 
> > Also who would determine how much it would cost to
> add
> > full graphic support?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Aaron
> > 
> > 
> >             
> >
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