Jesper, Thanks for looking in the bug issues tracker before posting. I couldn't find anything either. Also, I cannot be of any help since I haven't used lilypond-book AND and I'm not a Mac user. This issue has been entered in the tracker as: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2639&thanks=2639&ts=1341684984
Best Wishes, Mark On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Jesper Bengtson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not top posting. > > Greetings dear Lillypond community. > > I have problems using lilypond-book with the --pdf flag. I have changed the > fonts of my entire document,and the title of the song is corrupted when > using lilypond-book with the --pdf flag set. Without the --pdf flag set, > everything works fine, except it doesn't export to pdf of course. The > thing is > I need the --pdf flag as I'm later going to use xelatex which really does > not > work well with eps-files. > > I'm guessing that one of the problems is that I'm trying to use OSX fonts. > However, this works fine for the ps-versions, put not for pdf. I've tried > to keep > the following example as minimal as I can and still get my point across > (which requires scores and text). I have the following Lilypond file. > > File test.ly > ---------- > \version "2.14.2" > \header { > title = "Test" > composer = "Composer: Me" > poet = "Text: Me" > } > \paper { > myStaffSize = #20 > #(define fonts > (make-pango-font-tree "Chalkboard" > "Nimbus Sans" > "Luxi Mono" > > (/ myStaffSize 20))) > } > \score { > << > \new Staff { > \new Voice = "melody" { > \relative c' { > \key c \major > \time 4/4 > c4 d e f > } > } > } > \new Lyrics { > \lyricsto "melody" { > \repeat unfold 2 { > This is a test > } > } > } > >> > } > ---- > If I write the command lilypond test.ly, Lilypond generates a pdf that > looks exactly the way I want it to, with all fonts changed to the OSX > Chalkboard font. > > I also have the following lytex-file. > > file test_book.lytex > > ---- > > \documentclass[fontsize=14pt]{scrartcl} > \usepackage{graphicx} > > \begin{document} > > \lilypondfile[noindent]{test.ly} > > \end{document} > > --- > > If i don't use the --pdf flag, everything works fine. > > lilypond-book -o out test_book.lytex; cd out; latex test_book.tex; > dvips test_book.dvi; ps2pdf test_book.ps; mv test_book.pdf ../. > > Here I create a ps-file, and convert it to a pdf. The resulting > test_book.pdf > looks exactly the way I want it. > > However, if I instead use the --pdf flag and use the following command: > > lilypond-book --pdf -o out test_book.lytex; cd out; pdflatex test_book.tex; > mv test_book.pdf ../. > > Then the title 'Test' of the test_book.pdf file is not in Chalkboard and > its > kerning is off. All other text is, however, correct. > > Looking more closely at the eps-files that are generated and placed in the > out-folder, things also seem a bit off. When I don't use the --pdf flag, > then > I can convert the eps-files to pdf-files using epspdf, and everything > works. > However, when the --pdf flag is used, the generated eps-files seem > corrupted, > I cannot open them and epspdf crashes. Looking at the pdf-files works, but > the eps-files seem broken. > > I've tried finding work-arounds to make xelatex play nicely with > eps-files, but > I'm having problems there, and at the end, what it boils down to is that > if the > title of my music files were rendered correctly in pdfs that would be the > optimal > solution. > > I'm sorry if this is a bit verbose. I have tried to keep the example as > small as > I could, and I was unable to find a similar query in the bug-tracker. > Thank you > for your time, and thank you for a great product. > > > _______________________________________________ > bug-lilypond mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond > _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
