2010/7/2 Nigel Horne <n...@bandsman.co.uk>:
> On 02/07/10 22:20, David Kastrup wrote:
>>>
>>> When I try to include an EPS file, for example with the command:
>>>
>>> \markup {
>>>         \epsfile #X #20 #"logo.eps"
>>> }
>>>
>>> I get this cryptic message:
>>>
>>> Preprocessing graphical
>>> objects.../usr/share/lilypond/2.12.3/scm/stencil.scm:377:26: In
>>> procedure list-ref in expression (list-ref bbox 2):
>>> /usr/share/lilypond/2.12.3/scm/stencil.scm:377:26: Wrong type argument
>>> in position 1: #f
>>>
>>> What's it mean in plain English?  What have I done wrong?
>>>
>>
>> Used a non-EPS file (likely missing a bounding box comment)?
>>
>
> It's an EPS file, according to file(1):
>
> n...@packard:~$ file logo.eps
> logo.eps: DOS EPS Binary File Postscript starts at byte 32 length 3256 TIFF
> starts at byte 3288 length 8222
> n...@packard:~$
>
> What's a "bounding box comment", and how do I create it?

Comments in PS / EPS are lines that begin with double percent sign.  A
special one is that of the form

%%BoundingBox: llx  lly urx ury

which tells the enclosing rectangle of the image. See

http://www.tailrecursive.org/postscript/eps.html

-- 
Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com

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