Yes I have both CutePDF and GS installed on XP. However I did change my environment PATH variable to search for lily bin first, the gs next: here is my system PATH variable:
C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin;C:\gs\gs8.50\bin;C:\gs\gs8.50\lib;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\ in Control Panel / System / Advanced / EnvironmentVariables dialog box With this setup Lily will basically ignore the "other" copy of gs, but CutePDF still knows where it's (newer) copy is. Cameron Horsburgh wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 07:14:36PM -0700, Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: >> >> To all, >> >> This "bug" is apparently a problem on my Windows 2000 machine only. I >> retried my experiment on a newer Windows XP computer and backend EPS >> works >> flawlessly. >> >> Beautiful sharp output, that blows away the PNG's. Still no wysiwyg in >> MSWord, but when I render my MSWord doc to PDF all the snippets show up, >> my >> pre-press will be PDF anyway, MSWord is just a word processor... wysiwyg >> is >> not a big issue I know what all the rectangles mean anyway. >> >> Please disregard my earlier post. >> > This reminds me of an issue I currently have. I was always able > to print LilyPond scores from my work machine (Windows XP) until I > installed CutePDF and Ghostscript. Since then I seem to have had > similar issues with missing noteheads and so forth. Do you have these > installed on your XP machine? > > >> >> >> Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: >> > >> > V.2.9.22 fresh install after running uninstall of 2.9.21, on Win >> 2000... >> > >> > I've been encountering some issues using backend EPS output in my Word >> > processor documents and subsequent gs processing. I am using the >> > following command options to create small musical fragments for >> inclusion >> > in other documents: >> > >> > >> > >> > lilypond -b eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts myfile.ly >> > >> > >> > >> > Here are the issues, some have work-arounds others don’t: >> > >> > 1) When I include the lily produced EPS in my Word document, it just >> > appears as a blank rectangle (of proper size). This is OK because when >> I >> > actually print the document, or "virtual print" it to a ghostscript >> > virtual PDF converter like CutePDF. The EPS rectangle does print the >> > music (beautifully but partially) see next point. >> > >> > 2) The EPS rectangle contains the music however many "parts" are simply >> > missing, for example note heads are missing, but stems are there, ties >> are >> > there, but accidentals are missing, grace note heads are missing, clef >> is >> > present, as well as time signature and the staff symbol itself is >> there, >> > etc. I have not documented all the "pieces" that are missing, but >> > obviously something is awry in the font-embedding to cause random >> missing >> > characters, I assume. >> > >> > 3) The third issues occurs when viewing the gs prduced PDF through >> Adobe >> > reader. If I click on the area of the page where the EPS rectangle is, >> > Adobe says that it is attempting to "contact a web site" then gives a >> > normal file path to a path on the machine that created the original >> EPS. >> > I'm assuming it's probably looking for the missing fonts? When I click >> > that rectangle of music in Adobe Reader it launches a DOS window (maybe >> > gs, don’t know?), but the document does not change. I would rather not >> > see any click behavior with a non-interactive PDF print document. >> > >> > 4) Finally if I take one of the backend EPS files created by lily and >> just >> > use ghostscript to convert it to PDF, the same issues (2 and 3) above >> > still occur in Adobe Reader. I think this kind of eliminates MSWord as >> > the culprit. I use CutePDF to convert Windows applications print >> output >> > to PDF, CutePDF is just a freeware "virtual printer" shell wrapped >> around >> > gs, "impersonating" a printer, then puts up a SaveAs dialog to save the >> > PDF. >> > >> > >> > >> > Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve these problems? >> > >> > I really like the output of using EPS over PNG for imbedding music into >> > other documents. The quality of the EPS vs. the PNG is like day and >> > night, with the EPS being crystal clear, albeit missing note heads, and >> > making Adobe Reader act weird right now. >> > >> > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Or can someone possibly >> > double-check the code that does the font embedding to EPS for a >> possible >> > bug related to at-least the accidentals and note heads? Or maybe a >> > possible bug that is causing Adobe to think it needs to reference an >> > external URL in order to render? I will be glad to be your test case >> for >> > any new code. >> > >> > Are the fonts maybe hosed on my machine? Is there any kind of clean up >> > and reinstall I should try first? >> > >> > Lily itself works fine otherwise. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Rick >> > >> > >> > >> > > -- > > ============================================= > Cameron Horsburgh > > ============================================= > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Backend-EPS-issue-tf2420691.html#a6755923 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
