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RE: staff lines problem in professional printing
From: |
Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: |
RE: staff lines problem in professional printing |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Mar 2004 13:25:57 +0100 |
address@hidden writes:
> The ps file was made in four steps:
> 1. lilypond
> 2. dvips -E to get an EPS file
> 3. included the eps file in a latex doc.
> 4. dvips
>
> I looked closer at the issue, comparin a printing with my printer and the
> imageset version.
> All the objects are exactly as on the simple printed version, including all
> barlines. The staff lines seem to begin sooner on the left and end later on
> the right.
> Now I made another scan to confirm: made a 600 dpi scan
> (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~berti/lilypond/problem/longline-scan.png) and put it
> on a 600 dpi exported PNG from GhostScript
> (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~berti/lilypond/problem/longline-export.png). The
> same badness was present
> (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~berti/lilypond/problem/longline-xor.png). (The
> scanned file looks a little bit scaled up, but that easily can be the
> scanner's error).
Curious - I suspect that the problem is caused by TeX's \vrule (which
are only used for staff lines) in combination with improper scaling
somewhere. Stay tuned.
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Han-Wen Nienhuys | address@hidden | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen