Re: Cropped output (à la -dpreview) possible in Finale and Sibelius

[Alexander Kobel]

On 04/09/2013 08:26 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote:
> 2013/4/9 Werner LEMBERG<address@hidden>:
> > > It's a very hard problem and probably not solvable.
> >
> > Ah, I misread, sorry.  Yes, it might be worth to test with line
> > strokes.
>
> I find it most interesting that apparently there is some way to solve
> this problem.  If line strokes render perfectly, why rounded
> rectangles don't?

A completely random guess from an almost, but not quite, entirely 
clueless person: because lines have a unique direction, while rectangles 
have two.  Hence, for a rectangle one of the two choices is bogus.
It might be clever for one type of documents (e.g, Lilypond scores with 
lots of stems) to take the smaller extent as stroke width, but you never 
know about the side effects for other documents.  And that's why they 
don't do it.
Besides, rectangles bound /regions,/ and I see a valid point in not 
willfully changing regions or areas.  For lines, it's slightly more 
likely that the designer intended the object to be a line than for 
rectangles.

But it might just be that this SA thingie has to be set: 
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-06/msg00275.html>

As I said, I'm clueless...


Just my 2 pennies,
Alexander