Re: [Groff] .PSPIC seems to be broken

[Denis M. Wilson]

It all works for me, except for ps2eps. I used
ImageMagick to trim and convert (getting rid of
the "Engraved by Lilypond" banner at the foot of the
page). I'm using Lilypond 2.12.3.

Denis

On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 02:20:29 +0100 (CET)
"Bernd Warken" <address@hidden> wrote:

> .PSPIC is documented in groff_tmac(5).  It is supposed to load an
> EPS-file. That should work in the troff modes.  In tty-modes and in
> X-mode it is not possible to show the EPS-file, so only a box with
> the file name is generated.
> 
> But that does not work.
> 
> The only working troff mode is dvi.  The EPS-image is drawn without
> errors. But before and aftger the image a page break is printed,
> which does not make sense, but at least it draws correctly.
> Unfortunately it accepts only direct filenames (e.g. starting with
> `/').
> 
> The modes html, xhtml, ps, and pdf produce many error messages and
> don't draw the image.
> 
> So .PSPIC seems to be broken for almost all modes.
> 
> I tried to read the pspic.tmac file, but it is quite complicated.
> 
> Bernd Warken
> 
> 
> 
> PS: How did I get the EPS-file?
> 
> With lilypond.  I used a lilypond file test.ly with the content:
> 
> ###### test.ly
> \version "2.14.2"
> {
>   c' e' g' e'
> }
> ####### end test.ly
> 
> Then I ran:
> 
>   $ lilypond --ps -o /tmp/test test.ly
> 
> This generated a file /tmp/test.ps.  Then I transformed this into EPS:
> 
>   $ ps2eps /tmp/test.ps
> 
> That generated /tmp/test.eps that should be imported by .PSPIC:
> 
> ##### test.troff
> asdf
> .PSPIC /tmp/test.eps
> qwer
> ##### end test.troff
> 
> But groff did not work as described above.
> 
> I also tried the EPS and other format files generated by
>  $ lilypond -d backend=eps test.ly
> 
> Bernd Warken
> 


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