2009/6/4 Henning Hraban Ramm <hra...@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
>
>
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