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Re: barline problem
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Erik Sandberg |
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Re: barline problem |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:42:16 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 14 June 2006 17:25, Stephen wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dewdman42" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 4:55 PM
> Subject: Re: barline problem
>
> > Which gets us to the crux of the problem. Finale and lilypond use all of
> > the
> > nuances of postscript that they possibly can..perhaps even using parts of
> > it
> > that the PDF "subset" does not support very well. For this reason, all
> > the
> > PDF viewers I have tried look like crap. Sad.
>
> Your right, Lilypond does not produce PDF files, ghostscript does. So the
> only thing Lilypond could do is add additional hinting in the PostScript
> file as Hans has already suggested. And as you've already pointed out, what
> matters is how the music looks printed out. It is inadviseable to practice
> your instrument looking at the 72 dpi of the computer screen rather than a
> 300 dpi printed score. That's bad for your eyes.
I think there exist music stands consisting of TFT displays nowadays, so good
on-screen rendering is desirable to some extent. However, I'd advise to
produce png output if you want to view output on screen; because pngs display
a lot faster than pdf or ps, and
> The PDF files certainly
> are perfectly readable and legible, so therefore, I don't think it is sad
> or even undesireable to have the slight aliasing issues you see. After all,
> 72 dpi will always be inferior to 300 dpi no matter how you slice it. If
> Lilypond is optimized for 300 dpi, that is a good thing.
btw, lily is optimized for 600 dpi iirc: the stems have slightly rounded
edges, this is not visible on resolutions below 600dpi.
--
Erik
- Re: barline problem, (continued)
Re: barline problem, Dewdman42, 2006/06/13
- Re: barline problem, Graham Percival, 2006/06/13
- Re: barline problem, Graydon, 2006/06/13
- Re: barline problem, Dewdman42, 2006/06/13
- Re: barline problem, Stephen, 2006/06/14
- Re: barline problem,
Erik Sandberg <=
- Re: barline problem, Walter Hofmeister, 2006/06/14
- Re: barline problem, Dewdman42, 2006/06/14
- Re: barline problem, Stephen, 2006/06/14
Re: barline problem, Erik Sandberg, 2006/06/14
Re: barline problem, Dewdman42, 2006/06/14
Re: barline problem, Stephen, 2006/06/14
Message not availableRe: barline problem, Dewdman42, 2006/06/14
Re: barline problem, Walter Hofmeister, 2006/06/14
Re: barline problem, Stephen, 2006/06/15
Message not availableRe: barline problem, Dewdman42, 2006/06/16