Re: barline problem

[Walter Hofmeister]

On 6/14/06 9:42 AM, "Erik Sandberg" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.
I'm not sure that Lilypond is "optimized" for any set resolution as
postscript is a device/resolution independent system. That is it is your
interpreter/printing device that determines what the final resolution is.
    I print out using a 1200 dpi postscript printer and the output looks
great.

Walter Hofmeister