RE: Horizontalized scores

[Tim Roberts]

Chris Crossen <address@hidden> wrote:
> The trick to getting the crisp horizontal and vertical lines while still
> getting anti-aliased curves is the ghostscript option -dGraphicsAlphaBits.
> When Lilypond produces a .png file it set this to 4. If you set it to 1
> instead, you get horizontal and vertical lines that aren't anti-aliased.
>
> I have attached two images showing the difference. crisp.png was produced
> with -dGraphicsAlphaBits=1 and blurry.png was produced with
> -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4.

But did you notice that the stems in your PNG are not all the same
thickness?  The G and A stems are 1 pixel, and the rest are 2 pixels. 
Is that an acceptable trade-off for you?

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Tim Roberts, address@hidden
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.