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Re: [somewhat-OT] tweaking Lilypond PS/PDF output in (e.g.) Illustrator
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Han-Wen Nienhuys |
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Re: [somewhat-OT] tweaking Lilypond PS/PDF output in (e.g.) Illustrator |
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Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:17:50 +0100 |
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Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote:
[Mac OS X 10.4.4 ; Lilypond Version 2.7.35-1 (Build from 30-12-2005
19:17) ]
Hello, all!
On many (especially time-sensitive) projects, I prefer to do my fine
tweaks in Illustrator -- I find that fast tweaking directly in Lilypond
is essentially impossible, given the multiple-try-and- compile-cycle
process required for almost every tweak. [Fortunately, the basic
Lilypond output is so great that the tweaks are minor and can be done
quite quickly in Illustrator.]
Unfortunately, it's no simple job to get Illustrator to recognize my
Lilypond output as "clean" PostScript! [Likely this is an Adobe
problem, not you guys -- however, I'm stuck trying to find a workaround
actually, that's unlikely, given that Adobe defined the PostScript standard.
On single-page scores, I can use ps2ps to convert, and that seems to
leave a useable file (i.e., Illustrator reads it). However, on multi-
page scores, it only reads the first page. If I pull an arbitrary page
directly from the PDF output, all of the non-note font information goes
kablooey, so I have to reenter all scripts, etc., which is far too
time-consuming in many cases.
What do you mean by "non-note" ?
You can get multiple EPSes with fonts by doing
lilypond -b eps -deps-font-include file.ly
(then file.ly should not have a \book block, but rather \scores at toplevel)
If you're really interested in getting good tweakable output, I
recommend looking at Inkscape, which is also available for MacOS X, and
using SVG output. Unfortunately, Inkscape doesn't support multipage
documents yet.
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Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen