Re: good rendering of PDF

[Jonathan Kulp]

Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote:
> Yes, there is an "enhance thin lines" setting in Reader 9 (or perhaps in 
> 8 as well), which should be turned off I think.

Good call! I never knew about this setting but it helps.  The 
barlines (for example) look much more natural without the enhanced 
thin lines.

I've just done a little experiment of my own viewing the same 
document in Acroread, Evince, and Ghostview. Acroread and Evince 
were much better. Ghostview messed up the ties, slurs, and any 
slanted 16th-note beams. No one has answered the question about 
printing yet, so maybe I'll print the same page from each viewer 
and see if there's any difference.

Jon

> Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > 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.


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