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Re: barline problem


From: Walter Hofmeister
Subject: Re: barline problem
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:26:57 -0600
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On 6/13/06 11:35 AM, "Dewdman42" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> ok, ran an experiment.  for whatever its worth...  Overture produced very
> clean and decent looking PDF files.  No aliasing or weird artifacts.
> Finale2006 produced crapola...even worse than lilypond.  I wonder what the
> difference is?  I'm guessing that somehow the finale PDF and Lilypond PDF
> are encoded in such a way that you can print those PDF's to a high
> resolution printer and get excellent results.  But somehow their collection
> of vectors does not display well at lower 72dpi resolution in PDF viewers.
> For whatever the reason, the pdf produced from Overture looks just fine in
> PDF viewer, but I doubt its print is as good as Finale or Lilypond.
> (Shrug)??  However I zoomed the Overture PDF in to 200% and 400% and it
> still looked great.  It looked great and evenly great at all resolutions.
> 
> By the way, I used pdf995 to produce the PDF's from Finale and Overture (and
> that other guitar tab program I sometimes use).
> 
> The point of this post is that it *IS* possible to get better looking music
> notation in PDF form.  The PDF viewer is not neccessarily the limiting
> factor.  My believe is that finale and Lilypond are perhaps leaning too
> heavily on postscript, and expecting the PDF readers to sort it out at view
> time..while overture is probably not using poscript directly in the program,
> but rather relying on the print driver to generate what works best.  Same
> with my guitar tab program.  Hence, the pdf995 can produce a quality PDF in
> both of those two cases, but with Finale and lilypond suffer in this area.
> 
> Again, maybe there is some setting somewhere, but I think this probably
> related more to the fact that lilypond is postscript in its core.
> 
> --
I would say that in older versions of Lilypond where it relied on LaTex, the
PDFs were much better looking on the screen.

Walter Hofmeister






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