Re: Different Raster Size for every page

[David Rogers]

* James <address@hidden> [2010-08-20 15:57]:

> Hello,
>
> On 20/08/2010 11:29, Nils Gey wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I recently worked together with a publisher who said he can't understand that 
> > there is no option in any notation-software that allows having different raster 
> > sizes (means scaling of objects) for every page.
> > It is not on me to judge if this is wise, from a typographers point of view, 
> > but I'm sure there is music that benefits of that.
> >
> > What about lilyponds possibilities (or opinions) about this issue?
>
> While you can output to various image formats in lilypond, the 
> default PDF output which uses postscript should be scalable at any 
> size and is not a raster-based image at all.
>
> unless I have misunderstood what you meant.

My impression is that "raster" is not really what was meant, but the
ability to create (in Lilypond as opposed to modifying output after
the fact) a score where page 1 and page 2 and page 3 are different
sizes.


--
David