Re: good rendering of PDF

[Trevor Daniels]

Werner LEMBERG wrote Thursday, July 02, 2009 7:42 AM
> From time to time, users complain that the display of lilypond PDF
> files with acroread or xpdf looks awkward on screen.  In such 
> cases, I
> strongly recommend to use ghostscript itself to view the PDF file, 
> or
> a wrapper program like gv or gsview.
>
> Have a look at the attached image: the left part shows the 
> rendering
> result of a piece (compiled with lilypond 2.13.1) with gv (at 25%
> scaling, using gs 8.64), and the right part is with acroread 8.1.5 
> (at
> 58.6% scaling).  What a difference.

When I moved to Vista I was very disappointed
with the on-screen appearance of pdfs in Adobe
Reader.  Then I found and adjusted the Page
Display preferences.  Now it's absolutely fine.
The default settings were clearly not optimum.
I can't remember now which particular settings
were important, but the ones under Resolution and
Rendering look significant.

Trevor