Re: [abcusers] RE : from ABC to image
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 01:42:40 +0100 (BST) From: Richard Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Jack Campin wrote: On my setup (old Macs) I can generate PostScript from some applications for free (I think, haven't tried lately) but creating Acrobat files needs a utility that costs money. Is there a way to do it free on any current platform? Ghostscript's ps2pdf ? Circularity alert ... ! Actually, that's exactly what I'd recommend too. Most of the musicians on my morris dance teams aren't technically oriented, and wouldn't go out of their way to install a PostScript reader, but they already have the acrobat reader plugged into their web browsers. Giving them a link to a PDF file serves their needs sufficiently. I originally took up Linux because it seemed simpler than getting TeX running on DOS. :-) When I worked in a for a company that made Windows software and I had to use Windows, I installed the MiKTeX TeX/LaTeX package, which was actually pretty easy to set up, and worked well for me. (Those plus CygWin plus emacs made the whole thing bearable.) A Google search for MiKTeX led me to http://www.miktex.org/ Jeff To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[abcusers] RE : from ABC to image
Is there any tool to convert abc document into an image? I was using abcm2ps, but when music is too big, it generates two images. Hi, I've seen your website. 2 remarks : 1/ About converting abc to eps files, or other image format, you should use pdf instead because most users have access to a pdf reader (gv, acrobat, xpdf etc.). Postcript files are not easily readable by windows users who don't have ghostscript (=most of them). If most of your tunes are not too much big, you can try to change the size of the abcm2ps output with this : ABCM2PS3-0-1.EXE abc_temp.abc -F fileformat with a file named : fileformat.fmt like that : % parameters for typesetting music scale 0.65 % you can even use a smaller factor continueall maxshrink 0.90 staffsep 30pt etc. It could fit on just one page. You can try also to add commands inside the abc file %%staffsep 49pt %%sysstaffsep 27pt That's what I do when I get a staff alone on a third page etc. 2/ It would be useful to have in addition on you site a zipped file with all the abc in it... for offline. ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] RE : from ABC to image
About converting abc to eps files, or other image format, you should use pdf instead because most users have access to a pdf reader (gv, acrobat, xpdf etc.). Postcript files are not easily readable by windows users who don't have ghostscript (=most of them). Which version of Acrobat? They keep changing the file format, and as it only has proprietary implementations you're more likely to get completely stuck with unreadable files a few years down the road than with something like PostScript where there are third-party clones. On my setup (old Macs) I can generate PostScript from some applications for free (I think, haven't tried lately) but creating Acrobat files needs a utility that costs money. Is there a way to do it free on any current platform? Perhaps as well rather than instead? === http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ === To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] RE : from ABC to image
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Jack Campin wrote: On my setup (old Macs) I can generate PostScript from some applications for free (I think, haven't tried lately) but creating Acrobat files needs a utility that costs money. Is there a way to do it free on any current platform? Ghostscript's ps2pdf ? Circularity alert ... ! Also pdfTeX. The usual free suspects, in fact. I originally took up Linux because it seemed simpler than getting TeX running on DOS. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
