binary eps files in 2.10 break lilypond-book workaround

[Laura Conrad]

Sometime very late in the 2.9 release cycle, the eps files generated
by lilypond-book (on ubuntu edgy linux; presumably really by "lilypond
-b eps") became binary instead of text.

This means that I can't fix the bounding box problem
<http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg25162.html> by
using Arvid's sed workaround any more.

Can we either get the bounding boxes to be right in the first place
or change the EPS files back to text files?

Or does someone feel like writing a program that fixes them in the
binary file?  

I don't understand why this is either a feature or a bug that's
difficult to fix.  I really want to be able to print books two-sided,
and there's no way I'm going to be able to do that with lilypond-book
in its current state.  I understand that this bug isn't important to
people who only use lilypond-book for including music snippets in a
text, but if you're writing a real music book, it's a critical bug.

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