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Re: barline problem
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Walter Hofmeister |
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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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