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Re: Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?
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Johannes Schindelin |
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Re: Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded? |
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Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:14:03 +0200 (CEST) |
Hi,
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, John Hawkinson wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <address@hidden> wrote on Sun, 16 Apr 2006
> at 13:46:16 +0200 in <address@hidden>:
>
> > > + (display "\n%%BeginDefaults
> > > +%%PageMedia: a4
> > > +%%EndDefaults\n" port)
> >
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but was "BeginDefaults" not the method of choice
> > to say: if no other value is given, please take A4 instead of that
> > awkward Letter format?
>
> No, that's not what it is at all. You may find it instructive to refer
> to the specification.
> http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/ps/5001.DSC_Spec.pdf
Thanks for the clarification.
> > And BTW, Lily's PostScript code's main purpose is to produce something
> > which Ghostscript turns into a PDF. So, the PostScript does not have to
> > adher strictly to the specs, but to what Ghostscript understands.
>
> Yikes, really!? That's good to know, I guess, but also kind of
> disappointing. For some reason that I have not bothered to debug,
> PDFs that LilyPond (2.6.3) generates for me have bizarre defects, like
> all text turning into the letter "y," etc. As such, postscript is the
> way to go. Not to mention that it's faster.
If I sounded like your work was not valuable, I made myself misunderstood.
It sure would be a fine thing if the PostScript could be sent to a
PostScript printer without problems.
Ciao,
Dscho
- Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?, John Hawkinson, 2006/04/16
- Re: Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?, Johannes Schindelin, 2006/04/16
- Re: Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?, David Feuer, 2006/04/16
- Re: Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?, John Hawkinson, 2006/04/16
- Re: Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?, John Hawkinson, 2006/04/16
- Whither the switch to OpenType fonts? (they break my printer), John Hawkinson, 2006/04/17
- Re: Whither the switch to OpenType fonts? (they break my printer), Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2006/04/20
- Re: Whither the switch to OpenType fonts? (they break my printer), John Hawkinson, 2006/04/20
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- Re: Whither the switch to OpenType fonts? (they break my printer), John Hawkinson, 2006/04/20
- Re: Whither the switch to OpenType fonts? (they break my printer), Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2006/04/21
- Re: Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?,
Johannes Schindelin <=
- Re: Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2006/04/17
- Re: Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?, Pedro Kröger, 2006/04/18