Re: Ultra-thick barlines in PDF output (PNG OK)

[Andrew Hawryluk]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Neil Puttock <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2009/12/21 Sandy Nicholson <address@hidden>:
>
>> In case it’s relevant, I’m running Mac OS X 10.6.2 (but I started trying
>> LilyPond when I was still on 10.5, I think). It seems to make no difference
>> what PDF viewer I use, so it’s unlikely that it’s a bug in a viewer (or in
>> the printer driver for my LaserJet 6MP).
>
> Which PDF viewers have you tried?  Some viewers struggle due to the
> lack of blotting around the rounded rectangles used for barlines.
>
>> I’d be very grateful if someone in the LilyPond developer community has the
>> time to work on this, as I’d really love to get into LilyPond. I’m afraid I
>> don’t have the time to delve into the source code myself, but would be very
>> happy to contribute in other ways when I have the time.
>
> I've attached two test files below; can you try them out and let me
> know how they render?

Tested both samples on Evince and Acroread. The first one (default)
shows the typical evince "overweight" barlines, while the second one
looks good in both viewers. On Acroread 9 I can't see any difference
between the two versions. Two questions:
a) what is blotting? and
b) should we take a user poll and see if we can we make the second
version the default again?

Andrew