Re: staff lines blurred on my website

[Jonathan Kulp]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Gerard McConnell <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

I've been using Lilypond to draw examples for my

counterpoint tutorial website at:

http://homepage.eircom.net/~gerfmcc/fugue.html

The staff lines are somewhat blurred.   What is the

likely reason for this? (I'm converting the output to

.png with {lilypond --png file.ly} )

(As I state on the site that I'm using Lilypond I'd like to

show the best possible output.)

Thanks,

Gerard

Hi Gerard,

I see the problem and can report that the same thing happens for me when viewing these things on a screen. Check our own new website, for example (still in development):

http://lilypond.org/~graham/Examples.html#Examples

Some of the staff lines are blurred on our examples as well.  Just now I tried running a file at a much higher resolution and the problem is still there.  I don't think this has anything to do with Lilypond, but rather with images being rendered on a screen. When I look at a lilypond pdf file in either Evince or Acroread, some of the lines are blurred there as well, but the printed output always looks excellent. Incidentally, I just went to my iMac and looked at a bunch of .tif files generated by Finale at something like 1200 dpi, and they also have some blurry staff lines. I don't think it's specific to Lilypond. These Finale images were made for an article I published a few years ago and they looked perfect in the printed copy. 

Best,

Jon

p.s. it's funny that you should write to the list now, since just a few days ago one of my faculty colleagues forwarded an email to me about your counterpoint website. I also have a counterpoint project going, info here in you're interested:

http://music2.louisiana.edu/Gratis/

-- 
Jonathan Kulp
http://www.jonathankulp.com