Re: Have the fonts changed?

[Stephen]

From: "Eyolf Ostrem" <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 6:15 PM


> I finally managed to upgrade to the latest version of Lilypond, from the 
> 2.6.4
> that I used to run. I'm very happy with the new features (especially the
> musica ficta option), but there is one change which I'm not quite as happy
> with: the fonts, more precisely: the way they look in [k|x]pdf.
> When I generated scores under 2.6.4, everything looked fine, but now the 
> music
> fonts are not anti-aliased, with the result that every note looks filled -
> not ideal, to say the least. If I view the ps-files directly or the pdf 
> files
> in Adobe Acrobat, it's still fine, and printouts from xpdf look the way 
> they
> should.
> Is it the fonts that have changed? Or the generation? I searched the 
> forums,
> and some reports similar to mine (but related to the text fonts, which are
> fine here) seem to indicate that it has to do with the package
> ec-fonts-mftraced. I have v. 1.0.12 installed (distro: ArchLinux).

eyolf, ec-fonts have not been used in Lilypond since 2.4. They were replaced 
with truetype fonts. But that does not affect the notes, symbols, or dynamic 
font. I was told that the ec-fonts could still be used with Lilypond, yet I 
have not found a way to switch to a font other than truetype or opentype on 
Windows.

Stephen

> I can use ViewPS (in emacs) of course, so it's not a big problem, but I 
> was
> wondering all the same.
> One last thing: When I aired the question in the Arch forum, it was 
> suggested
> that I ask xpdf/kpdf/poppler dev for its support. Is that relevant?
>
> Eyolf