Re: Jagged hairpins

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "SoundsFromSound" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: Jagged hairpins


> Phil Holmes-2 wrote
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> > From: "SoundsFromSound" &lt;
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> > lilypond-user@
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> > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 8:49 PM
> > Subject: Re: Jagged hairpins
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> > > Sorry David, I don't understand. When I output a PDF of my LilyPond 
> > > score
> > > via Frescobaldi, I don't have any other options to set. I just pick PDF,
> > > then I print it. The PDF has the jagged hairpins, even before I take 
> > > that
> > > PDF and actually print it to a laser printer from Acrobat. Doesn't that
> > > imply I'm making the mistake in Frescobaldi / LilyPond, and not in 
> > > Adobe?
> >
> >
> > OK.  Let me restate my earlier post.  Lilypond _does not_ produce PDFs
> > with
> > jagged hairpins.  Did you see the image I posted?  Was the hairpin 
> > jagged?
> >
> > So - something between your PDF rasteriser and your printer is creating
> > jagged hairpins.  Posting raster images (PNGs) of some output does not
> > help
> > at all.  Could you provide a PDF with what you say is a jagged hairpin,
> > and
> > a scan of the printed output?  That way we can see what's actually going
> > on.
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> > Phil Holmes
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> Ok. One question though. I thought PDF files were vector, no? A mix of
> sorts.


Sort of.  Why is that relevant?

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Phil Holmes