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Re: Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?


From: Johannes Schindelin
Subject: Re: Why is %%PageMedia: a4 hardcoded?
Date: 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





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