Re: Cropped output (à la -dpreview) possiblein Final e and Sibelius

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: Cropped output (à la -dpreview) possiblein Finale and Sibelius


> Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >     It seems this is Sibelius 7's default. See attached PNG.
>
> Huh?  The perfectly rendered stafflines make it clear that this is not a
> scanned image.  But clef, noteheads and text are rendered _appallingly_
> awful, like it would be dithering the stroke widths.
>
> Hopefully not the default way to produce PNG?
>
> --
> David Kastrup


I commented in an earlier message that Sibelius, IMHO, produces witheringly 
appalling graphics output.  Unaliased, with stems that attach to noteheads 
poorly.  The image I attached earlier was not scanned, but used Sibelius's 
export to PNG function at nominal 300 dpi.  This is its attempt at 1200 dpi. 
Lilypond is clearly better (except at cropping - see 
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=720 for a number of 
examples of this).

--
Phil Holmes

Lala1200.png
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