Hi there,
has anybody experienced the "clipped score" problem? I have, and I thought
it was a bug in abc2ps and derivatives. Well it wasn't, let me explain why.
The problem: you write your score with your favourite abc2ps variant,
specify very exact margins, typeset it, convert the PostScript file to pdf
(ps2pdf score.abc) for distribution, and find out that the first page is OK,
but the following are clipped on the top.
The solution: you must specify the paper size on the command line. That is,
the following command will create a correct .pdf file:
$ ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=letter score.ps
needless to say, you can use A4 or other paper formats. man gs(1) for
further details. I tested this solution with ghostscript 6.01.
If you find it annoying to specify the paper size each time, you may want to
modify /usr/bin/ps2pdf.
This problem was driving me mad, I hope I'll save other people's time.
Ciao,
Guido =8-)
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Dr. Guido Gonzato <ggonza at tin.it> - Linux System Administrator
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