I wrote:
>I need to produce high resolution staff notation from abc files
>on a Mac, and it needs to be no more than 6.5 inches wide. So
>I'm using abc4mac and trying to figure out how to manipulate the
>page size. From reading the documentation, it looks like it's
>possible by using the command line, but I can't figure out
>exactly what I'm supposed to type.
>
>Can anybody help me out? Step-by-step instructions would be
>greatly appreciated. On or off list.
Phil wrote:
>You can probably do this by editing the postscript, but it's
>much easier to use GhostScript.
>
> ...
>
>Use the Page Setup command in MacGS, and print from there.
Thanks, Phil. I already have MacGSView and have been using it in
this project, but this isn't quite what I'm trying to do. The only
way to shorten the lines from here is to decrease the size of the
notation. I want full-size notation in lines no longer than 6.5
inches long. Also, I don't want to print it, I want to send it as
bitmaps to my brother in Boston who will use them in something he
will print.
>If you need more control than this, you can copy the picture to
>the clipboard and paste into a graphics program (Photoshop,
>GraphicConverter or whatever), edit it and print from there.
This is what I was trying to avoid. I've been doing this, but it's
time consuming and difficult to make the results pretty (the ideal
note spacing is not trivial: the abc2ps part of abc4mac puts a lot
of effort into making it right, and my shortening the lines in a
paint program would undermine that).
Is there no way to tell abc4mac (ie., abc2ps) to set up a
postscript page with lines that are no more than 6.5 inches wide?
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