Re: Trouble with EPS backend output use

[David Wright]

On Wed 13 Jul 2016 at 08:45:02 (-0500), Joshua Nichols wrote:
> I'm on Macintosh.
> 
> Perhaps you misunderstand me: I do not have issues viewing or editing any
> other EPS file on my system except for the ones created by LilyPond.

> >> Whenever I create it, I cannot adequately open it in, lets say,
> >> illustrator, or another vector editor, nor can I embed it in a pages or
> >> lyx/latex file without getting errors about the file type.

So are these errors related to the Mac's file metadata being wrong in
some way, or to the contents of the file itself? Does it start with
stuff like:

%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0
%%Creator: LilyPond 2.19.44
%%BoundingBox: 19 -756 584 -47
%%Orientation: Portrait
%%DocumentSuppliedResources: font Emmentaler-11
%%DocumentSuppliedResources: font Emmentaler-13
%%DocumentSuppliedResources: font Emmentaler-20
%%DocumentSuppliedResources: font Emmentaler-23
%%DocumentSuppliedResources: font TeXGyreSchola-Bold
%%DocumentSuppliedResources: font TeXGyreSchola-Italic
%%DocumentSuppliedResources: font TeXGyreSchola-Regular
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog

> >> I once could get it to inkscape, but it it couldn't produce the note
> >> heads and various other vector fonts which I assumed were embedded in the
> >> file.

No, neither can I. All the text, lines, slurs, stems etc look ok, the
(numeric) time signature is in the wrong font and the noteheads are
missing. I assume this is because Inkscape can't read the font
information in the EPS.

> >> I'm having issues embedding EPS files produced in the back end feature in
> >> 2.18.x.

Is your interest in EPS files because you really want to make use of
the PostScript within, or are you just using them as a medium to get
the score out of LilyPond and into the next program along the chain,
like LaTeX or whatever?

If the latter, have you considered using PDFs instead of EPSs?
I suspect most people who used EPSs have gone that way already.
http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/28788/what-unique-benefits-does-the-eps-format-provide

Cheers,
David.

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Re: Trouble with EPS backend output use

[Joshua Nichols]

I'm on Macintosh.

Perhaps you misunderstand me: I do not have issues viewing or editing any
other EPS file on my system except for the ones created by LilyPond.


IX,

Josh

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 7:43 AM, Kevin Barry  wrote:

> Hi Joshua,
>
> What operating system are you on? On Linux the default PDF viewer is
> usually evince, which can view EPS files. On windows you may have to
> install a program to view them, such as ghostscript/ghostview.
>
> If you use pdflatex I think you need to load an extra package (graphicx
> maybe?) in order to embed EPS files.
>
> Kevin
> On 13 Jul 2016 4:46 a.m., "Joshua Nichols" 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello List,
>>
>> I'm having issues embedding EPS files produced in the back end feature in
>> 2.18.x.
>>
>> Whenever I create it, I cannot adequately open it in, lets say,
>> illustrator, or another vector editor, nor can I embed it in a pages or
>> lyx/latex file without getting errors about the file type.
>>
>> I once could get it to inkscape, but it it couldn't produce the note
>> heads and various other vector fonts which I assumed were embedded in the
>> file.
>>
>> I work mainly with Frescobaldi on the front end.
>>
>> Help?
>>
>> ​Sincerely,
>>
>> Josh
>>
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Re: Trouble with EPS backend output use

[Kevin Barry]

Hi Joshua,

What operating system are you on? On Linux the default PDF viewer is
usually evince, which can view EPS files. On windows you may have to
install a program to view them, such as ghostscript/ghostview.

If you use pdflatex I think you need to load an extra package (graphicx
maybe?) in order to embed EPS files.

Kevin
On 13 Jul 2016 4:46 a.m., "Joshua Nichols"  wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> I'm having issues embedding EPS files produced in the back end feature in
> 2.18.x.
>
> Whenever I create it, I cannot adequately open it in, lets say,
> illustrator, or another vector editor, nor can I embed it in a pages or
> lyx/latex file without getting errors about the file type.
>
> I once could get it to inkscape, but it it couldn't produce the note heads
> and various other vector fonts which I assumed were embedded in the file.
>
> I work mainly with Frescobaldi on the front end.
>
> Help?
>
> ​Sincerely,
>
> Josh
>
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Trouble with EPS backend output use

[Joshua Nichols]

Hello List,

I'm having issues embedding EPS files produced in the back end feature in
2.18.x.

Whenever I create it, I cannot adequately open it in, lets say,
illustrator, or another vector editor, nor can I embed it in a pages or
lyx/latex file without getting errors about the file type.

I once could get it to inkscape, but it it couldn't produce the note heads
and various other vector fonts which I assumed were embedded in the file.

I work mainly with Frescobaldi on the front end.

Help?

​Sincerely,

Josh
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