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#2643 Attach lilypond source in pdf
Originally created by: colingh...@gmail.com
Originally owned by: v.villenave
Reported by Samuel Da Mota on Lilypond user here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-07/msg00105.html
Hi,
I'm a pretty much new user of lilypond and I have an idea for a almost
dummy new feature: automatically attach lilypond code in pdf.
With pdf files it is possible to attach a file into it. I think it
would be nice to have a lilypond option that attaches the .ly files
into the pdf.
This way when someone creates a partition and upload it to a website,
the code will be uploaded too, thus making it much more easier for any
user to possibly modify it.
Moreover it will help spreading the use of lilypond.
In linux it is easy to do it using pdftk (the command is "pdftk
input_file.pdf attach_files source_file.ly output output_file.pdf").
It may be interesting to automatically call this command just after
the pdf generation. Pdftk seems to be also available under windows and
mac os.
Moreover, if this feature is accepted, it may be interesting to modify
the default tagline which says "engraved by lilypond version x.y.z" to
"engraved by lilypond version x.y.z with source file attached" to
increase its visibility.
Of course, for musicians who doesn't want to share their lilypond
code, this feature should be kept as an option (maybe turned on by
default).
Best Regards,
--
Samuel DA MOTA
Originally posted by: reinhold...@gmail.com
According to the following discussion, you can use the /pdfmark postscript command to attach files:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4438533
A sample eps file (hand-written text file) is attached, to create the pdf, you need to run ghostscript with the -dNOSAFER option to allow file access:
ps2pdf -dNOSAFER test.eps
The resulting pdf file correctly shows the attachment in acroread. However, neither okular nor evince are able to detect the attachment, only acroread does.
More information about the file attachment subtype of the pdfmark command can also be found on page 488 of http://www.dpunkt.de/leseproben/1360/Kapitel_11.pdf
Originally posted by: v.villenave
Here’s a patch that more or less implements that feature (although it doesn’t create a compressed archive when there are multiple files).
https://codereview.appspot.com/225040043/
Labels: Patch-waiting
Owner: v.villenave
Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com
(No comment was entered for this change.)
Labels: -Patch-waiting Patch-new
Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com
Passes make, make check and a full make doc.
reg test shows up
--snip--
input/regression/option-help.log
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
dump-profile (#t) Dump memory and time information for each file.
dump-signatures (#t) Dump output signatures of each system. Used for
regression testing.
+ embed-source-code (#f) Embed the source files inside the generated PDF document.
eps-box-padding (3.0) Pad left edge of the output EPS bounding box by
given amount (in mm).
gs-load-fonts (#f) Load fonts via Ghostscript.
--snip--
James
Labels: -Patch-new Patch-review
Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com
Patch on countdown for April 9th
Labels: -Patch-review Patch-countdown
Originally posted by: v.villenave
(Syntax consistency nitpick)
http://codereview.appspot.com/225040043
Labels: -Patch-countdown Patch-new
Status: Started
Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com
Patchy the autobot says: passes tests. Includes a full make doc
Labels: -Patch-new Patch-review
Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com
Patch on countdown for April 12th
Labels: -Patch-review Patch-countdown
Originally posted by: v.villenave
Some improvements (but problems still exist)
http://codereview.appspot.com/225040043
Labels: -Patch-countdown Patch-new
Originally posted by: v.villenave
Use mark ___ pdfmark instead of [ ____ pdfmark
http://codereview.appspot.com/225040043
Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com
Patchy the autobot says: passes tests. Includes a full make doc
Labels: -Patch-new Patch-review
Originally posted by: v.villenave
Retrieve source file paths directly from Includable-lexer:: class
http://codereview.appspot.com/225040043
Labels: -Patch-review Patch-new
Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com
Patchy the autobot says: passes tests. Includes a full make doc
Labels: -Patch-new Patch-review
Originally posted by: v.villenave
The current patch is broken, but it’s sorta by design (see my last comment on Rietveld).
Originally posted by: dak@gnu.org
I'll take a look eventually but right now I'm half through the alphabet on that other patch...
Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com
Patch on countdown for April 18th
Labels: -Patch-review Patch-countdown
Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com
I'm going to leave this on 'countdown' for April 21 as it seems there is still some discussion here.
Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com
Nothing has moved on - leaving on another countdown for April 24th - if I still see no change, I'll put this back to review.
Originally posted by: v.villenave
Oh, it’s definitely on review, since it just isn’t working at the moment (ever since David made me add a "parser" arg that I’m not sure how to retrieve, cf the FIXME line #420 in framework-ps.scm).
For now, setting -dembed-source-code will make Lily crash, which is not ideal.
And while we’re at it, I’m not sure how to add a regtest for this feature: ideally we’d need something that checks the created PDF for an embedded file, extracts it and compares it to the source file (they should be identical).
Labels: -Patch-countdown Patch-review
Originally posted by: dak@gnu.org
Sorry, I am currently quite immersed in issue 1375 or probably rather a precursor of it (issue 4351 is already a bit of lead-up work). I'll get back to this one once I can find sufficient focus.
Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com
Leaving on review for now
Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com
David, do you still want me to leave this on Review?
Originally posted by: dak@gnu.org
As far as I can tell from Valentin's own comments, this does not currently work properly and my attention is required. So I'm afraid that it will need to stay on review right now. Sorry for that. I'm making progress on the stuff currently occupying my mind though, so I hope I'll be able to get to this here this week.
Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com
Keeping on Review
Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com
Keeping on Review still
Cc: dak@gnu.org