Re: lilypond-book/LateX Beamer: best rendering practice?

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Florian Hollerweger" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 11:55 AM
Subject: lilypond-book/LateX Beamer: best rendering practice?


> Hi all,
>
> As mentioned earlier, I am planning to deliver a Lilypond workshop 
> together with a friend at this year's Linux Audio Conference. For the 
> workshop slides, I already have a working setup using lilypond-book --pdf 
> in combination with pdflatex and LaTeX Beamer.

> - But I get the impression that PNGs (rather than PDFs) might be the way 
> to go for better-quality on-screen display of Lilypond output?


I guess the benefit of PNG is that you're not reliant on the PDF on-screen 
renderer to control the look of the output.  However, if you create the PNGs 
you're going to use at their final size, you're still dependent on a 
relatively unsophisticated mechanism to fit the lines and features to the 
pixels.  I would experiment with creating PNGs much larger than you require 
and resizing them with an image processing application.  Also experiment 
with LilyPond's anti-alias-factor.

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Phil Holmes