Re: generate eps file from frecobaldi

2022-06-02 Thread Knute Snortum
On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 5:31 AM WaiMing Tsang wrote: > I knew to select eps output from Frecobaldi, but I was hopping I can use > Frecobaldi to run commandline for lilypond. I'm not understanding what you're saying, could you say it a different way? Why would you use Frescobaldi to "run

Re: generate eps file from frecobaldi

2022-06-01 Thread Silvain Dupertuis
Gimp and Inkscape are free and available in Windows, MacOs and Linux. Le 01.06.22 à 14:30, WaiMing Tsang a écrit : Hi Simon Bailey, Silvain Dupertuis, David M. Boothe &/Henning Hraban Ramm/ // /Thank you all for giving me suggestion. I am a window 10 user. I don’t know GIMP, /Inkscape/, /

Re: generate eps file from frecobaldi

2022-06-01 Thread WaiMing Tsang
Hi Simon Bailey, Silvain Dupertuis, David M. Boothe & Henning Hraban Ramm Thank you all for giving me suggestion. I am a window 10 user. I don’t know GIMP, Inkscape, I will search if these programs are available for window 10? Even if they are, learning curve will occurs. I knew to select eps

Re: generate eps file from frecobaldi

2022-05-31 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 31.05.22 um 21:56 schrieb David M. Boothe, CAS: I have always used Gimp to convert music PDFs to EPS, whether the PDF was generated by Lilypond (via Frescobaldi) or by gabc. That means you convert a proper vector PDF into pixels. Don’t do that. It makes no sense. Hraban

Re: generate eps file from frecobaldi

2022-05-31 Thread David M. Boothe, CAS
I have always used Gimp to convert music PDFs to EPS, whether the PDF was generated by Lilypond (via Frescobaldi) or by gabc. Here is a link to a document I wrote several years ago detailing how to do that: http://lakewoodsound.com/misc/pdf2eps-gimp.pdf Hope this helps. dB On Tue, May 31, 2022,

Re: generate eps file from frecobaldi

2022-05-31 Thread Silvain Dupertuis
Hello everyone, This does not answer the question directly... but suggests a solution without command line. It is indeed easy to create EPS and/or SVG files from the PDF using Inkscape. You can then edit the file, and choose any part you want to include. It works perfecty with PDF files

Re: generate eps file from frecobaldi

2022-05-31 Thread Simon Bailey
Hi Ming, go to the Lilypond menu and select "Engrave custom", then select EPS in the "Output format" dropdown. hth, sb On Tue, 31 May 2022 at 16:56, WaiMing Tsang wrote: > > Hi lilyponders: > > > > To produce ‘EPS’ images; > > lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts