Re: good rendering of PDF

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> 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.
>> 
> 
> Interesting and strange! I don't know in de detail how these
> programs work. The ghostscript version definitely looks much better.
> Will this difference still be there on paper when the score is
> printed? Or is it just a screen issue?

I was only talking about the screen appearance.  On paper, any PDF
output should be fine.

> And what about other alternative PDF viewers like okular, evince,
> xpdf (on Linux) or other alternative PDF viewers that exist (I just
> don't know them, I never use Windows) for Windows?

I have no idea :-)


    Werner