On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Guido Gonzato wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Atte Andre Jensen wrote: > > > Could someone inform me *exactly* settings will make abcm2ps fill the > > A4-paper as much as possible??? > > I was puzzled by the same problem, and I found out that abcm2ps is not to > blame. The problem lies with ps2pdf, which fails to se up A4 paper > correctly. My settings: abcm2ps (all versions since two years ago), AFPL > Ghostscript 7.03 (Linux), and AFPL Ghostscript 7.0 (Windows).
Sounds promissing! > Set up the page in the abc file as you prefer. To convert the score to PDF > with correct A4 paper size, you'll have to edit the file /usr/bin/ps2pdfwr > and change the line that reads > > OPTIONS="-dSAFER" > > to > > OPTIONS="-dSAFER -sPAPERSIZE=a4" Only thing: I don't have a file ps2pdfwr at all. Could the same be achieved by calling psdpdf with -sPAPERSIZE=a4 or something like that? > Converting with GhostView under Windows works fine. Never tried that... > I guarantee that it works... you'll find several examples of A4 sheet music > on my page, http://abcplus.sourceforge.net/choral/index.html Thanks alot, hope this is the beginning of the end of my headaches... -- love, peace & harmony Atte To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
