Re: PDF Problem

[Rune Zedeler]

Okay, I took a look.
I understand why the viewers have problems with lilypond's pdfs: For 
some reason lilypond does loads of conversions to and from millimeters.
I think it has something to do with lily defining one point to be 
1/72.27 inch, whereas a postscript (and pdf) point is 1/72 inch.
The reason for this is probably that lily used to use TeX as a backend, 
and TeX defines a point to be 1/72.27 inch.

IMO we should take the consequence of abandoning TeX, and start to use 
ps-points as the main-reference, a 20pt staff having a line distance of 
5 pps (5/72 inch).

Any comments?

(moving to devel, please post replys only there and not on user)

-Rune