Re: Error in glyphs: glyphs with filled loops at different fetafont sizes

[Phil Holmes]

"James Bailey" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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On Jan 18, 2011, at 6:51 AM, James Bailey wrote:

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: Frank Steinmetzger <address@hidden>
> > Date: January 18, 2011 5:35:39 AM GMT+01:00
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: Error in glyphs: glyphs with filled loops at different feta font 
> > sizes
> >
> > Hello List,
> >
> > I am having a problem here with Lilypond 2.12.3 on Gentoo Linux. I use a 
> > size
> > of 14.14 for my own things, so I haven’t noticed it yet. But now I’ve 
> > come
> > across someone else’s documents, which are set at 17.82. There the loop 
> > at the
> > tip of the G clef is filled out. And at size 15.87 it’s the 4/4 time 
> > signatury
> > glyph that displays incorrectly. Can you tell me how to avoid this?
> >
> > I attached a screenie of the sizes in question and the ly they were made 
> > with.
> >
> > I have tried all sizes that are stated in the comment of the attached 
> > file.
> > The filled loop also occurs at 11.22, 20 and 22.45. At 25.2 I noticed 
> > that the
> > clef’s centre diagonal line has an error at its lower end (the inside of 
> > the
> > curve is thicker). Thus I discovered this error in the others as well.
> >
> > Only 12.6 and 14.14 seem to really look normal.
> > I tested it with Okular, Gnome’s PDF viewer and KPDF, they all showed the
> > error. But still I’m attaching the PDF for size 17.82 to test it.
> > --


> I cannot see this problem using Skim.app for OSX, perhaps it is a pdf 
> viewer problem?

With the PDF attached to the original message, I see a slightly deformed 
clef using Adobe PDF viewer on Windows.  It looks like the upper loop is not 
properly closed, and this presumably confuses the viewers.  However, I get a 
perfect PDF from the same source using my Windows set up.

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Phil Holmes
Bug Squad