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Re: Postscript printer errors with rounded barlines?


From: Francisco Vila
Subject: Re: Postscript printer errors with rounded barlines?
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:06:34 +0200

2011/7/19 Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden>:
> Hi guys,
>
> I've noticed that some printer postscript interpreters add
> linethickness to barlines when printed, even though they create with
> draw_round_box with line thickness 0.0.  The result is that barlines
> noticeably stick out of the staff; the error is in the printer, since
> GV at 64x mag shows that everything is OK, and show with both the PDF
> and the PS output.  Unfortunately, a small example does not trigger,
> but the attached file when run through lilypond at commit
> 4e55f40a1bf65633fedc62d09d91d8e3c0247efe does (PDF attached).   By the
> amount it sticks out, I suspect it is somehow picking up the
> blotdiameter of another routine, but I have no idea how that could
> happen.
>
> I have seen this on my home printer (HP LJ 2100, with HPs postscript
> extension card, configured as generic postscript in CUPS) and the
> printer at my office, (Gestetner mp c2550).  This is a regression, as
> I am sure it worked correctly at some point on my printer before, but
> it I can't see anything obvious in the change log.
>
> The patch below fixes it, and seems safe for inclusion, but it would
> be nice if we could understand something more.

Do you think it is related to the evince-lilypond-barline problem? If
poppler acts like a printer, that would explain thick barlines both on
screen and on printer when printed from evince. I have been suffering
that issue for AGES now, see

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-01/msg00696.html

It would be absolutely great if the stock PDF viewer that comes with
gnome/ubuntu were able to display/print simple lilypond scores
correctly.  Sorry if it sounds stupid and/or it is unrelated.
-- 
Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com



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