Re: How to avoid ps2pdf

2002-04-11 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Mats" == Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mats> I wouldn't recommend this method in general since the resulting Mats> files will be significantly larger. Actually, that doesn't seem to be true in general: [lconrad@tuba tmp]$ ls -l health* -rw-rw-r--1 lconrad lcon

Re: How to avoid ps2pdf

2002-04-11 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Thomas" == Thomas Willhalm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I know there are lots of ways to get pdf out of TeX; is anyone here >> using one with lilypond and latex that doesn't involve ps2pdf? Thomas> The best tool I know to produce pdf is pdflatex. That's why I modified T

Re: How to avoid ps2pdf

2002-04-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I wouldn't recommend this method in general since the resulting files will be significantly larger. The reason is that in the output from ps2ps, everything is produced using low-level Postscript drawing commands. Instead of typesetting a font symbol by specifying the font name and the character c

Re: How to avoid ps2pdf

2002-04-11 Thread Thomas Willhalm
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 06:28:05PM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote: > I've been running my lilypond through lilypond-book, latex, dvips, and > ps2pdf in order to put pdf files up on the web that friends who have > acrobat but not ghostscript can print. Yes, it's strange that everybody has acroread, but

Re: How to avoid ps2pdf

2002-04-11 Thread Erik Sandberg
I have experienced very similar problems with Debian's ps2pdf package. I found one workaround: Before running ps2pdf, run ps2ps on the postscript file, like ps2ps music.ps temp.ps This produces a new postscript file temp.ps which is not identical to music.ps, but which ps2pdf seems to like be

How to avoid ps2pdf

2002-04-10 Thread Laura Conrad
I've been running my lilypond through lilypond-book, latex, dvips, and ps2pdf in order to put pdf files up on the web that friends who have acrobat but not ghostscript can print. I upgraded to Mandrake 8.2 a couple of weeks ago, and this system seems to have stopped working. Specifically, the po