Thanks, I did not actually try to print the document that was referencing the eps. I did not bother because I could not see it on the screen, but I'll try that later. Maybe I'll even try "printing" to my virtual PDF printer that converts any applications printed output into a PDF. Since in the end all my Word docs are printed to PDF then I use ghost to assemble the PDF's into books anyway. I can live with the EPS as an empty rectangle in the edited document.
Brett Duncan-2 wrote: > > Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: >> v2.9.22 (Win XP) >> >> I'm using the following command lines to create small musical fragments >> that >> I can later reference in a word processor document that has text and >> various >> musical excerpts: >> >> EXAMPLE BEGIN >> >> To make a small useseable PNG snippet: >> >> "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-windows.exe" --png -p >> "C:\Job015\smallsnippet.ly" >> >> To make a small EPS snippet: >> >> "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-windows.exe" -b eps >> -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts "C:\Job015\smallsnippet.ly" >> >> EXAMPLE END >> >> >> It's working great, except that the PNG files produced seem a little bit >> "fuzzy" to me. >> >> Is it my imagination, (my eyes are not as good as they were 40 years >> ago)? >> Is the quality of the PNG output a little on the low side? Can the >> default >> quality level be upped easily for a future release? >> >> Also I tried imbedding the accompanying .EPS file that is also outputted >> by >> the above command. But in my word processor they show up as a blank >> rectangle (Microsoft Word, Win XP). I have a suspician that the fonts >> are >> somehow not available in the EPS for Word to render properly, but the >> file >> sizes are around 200k for just a one measure snippet, so thats probably >> the >> fonts. >> >> Anyone else have these similar problem using musical fragments as either >> EPS >> or PNG? >> >> Ideally I would like to use the EPS files for embedding in other >> documents >> (because I assume they are lossless in terms of future quality). But I >> would need a fix for the possible bug with why the EPS files show up >> blank? >> For the time being the slightly fuzzy PNG files will have to do, until I >> can >> track down the EPS problem. >> >> (Note: the EPS command above I got straight from the user manual) >> >> Thanks to anyone who has already gone down this path and can provide some >> insight on either the PNG or EPS problems I'm having. >> >> >> Rick > > The default resolution for PNG appears to be 101 dpi. After the --png > flag in your command, add > > -dresolution=300 > > to get 300 dpi, or whatever you prefer. > > Even though you can set the resolution to whatever you like, I'd also > like the default to something like 300. > > The fuzziness, however, may or may not be the PNG resolution. > > I did some work for a friend who's been creating a learning kit based on > the music of Ross Edwards - he also found Microsoft Word rather > frustrating. Even though the scores and snippets that myself and another > friend passed to him were all 600 dpi (mine from LP, my friend's from > Sibelius), when he went to print the document, all the scores and > snippets were fuzzy, both on-screen and printed. However, when we > transferred the document to my laptop and printed it, everything came > out beautifully (especially the LP bits ;-) ). > > Now, do you think we could isolate the difference between how Word was > set up on my laptop and on my friend's? I wish. > > I don't know enough about EPS to really comment on those problems, > sorry, but did you try printing them? - EPS files may still print > correctly (on a Postscript printer, of course), even if they do not > display anything more than a bounding box. > > Also, I noticed you said you wanted EPS because of losslessness - PNG is > also a lossless format, and personally I'd rather work with PNG than EPS > any day. > > Brett > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Fragments--quality-of-png%2C-and-unuseable-eps%2C-when-using---preview-tf2410999.html#a6737647 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
