2009/6/4 Henning Hraban Ramm
<hraban@fiee.net>
Am 2009-06-03 um 16:54 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
pstopdf is part of the ConTeXt distribution and should give you something
like:
PsToPdf | version 2.0.1 - 2002-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD
Yes, but pstopdf relies on existance of ghostscript in path. pstopdf
is just a wrapper. If you don't have ghostscript installed, this is
unlikely to work.
I know, but Vyatcheslav said, pstopdf would say "nothing", and that would be too less, even if GS isn't installed.
But ... I had some impression that lilypond is able to generate pdfs on the fly?
It has GS compiled in (or as a library or the like), but unfortunately it can't generate PDF snippets, only whole pages.
Not true on my Windows machine. After every run of LP there is a filename-lilypond-1-1.pdf with exactly the same size as the pstopdf generated.
Lilypond writes:
...
Systeme erstellen...
Layout nach »lilytest-lilypond-1-1.eps« ausgeben...
Konvertierung nach »./lilytest-lilypond-1-1.pdf«...
Layout nach »lilytest-lilypond-1.eps« ausgeben...
Konvertierung nach »./lilytest-lilypond-1.pdf«...
...
And it generates always PostScript first (after a normal LP run you've a useless .ps file).
I get two .eps: filename-lilypond-1.eps and filename-lilypond-1-1.eps.
EPS snippets (that we use here) were a special feature for the LaTeX "lilypond-book" process, that's why there were even more junk files created before v.12.2