Re: barline problem

[Stephen]

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From: "Dewdman42" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: barline problem


> Which gets us to the crux of the problem.  Finale and lilypond use all of 
> the
> nuances of postscript that they possibly can..perhaps even using parts of 
> it
> that the PDF "subset" does not support very well.  For this reason, all 
> the
> PDF viewers I have tried look like crap.  Sad.

Your right, Lilypond does not produce PDF files, ghostscript does. So the 
only thing Lilypond could do is add additional hinting in the PostScript 
file as Hans has already suggested. And as you've already pointed out, what 
matters is how the music looks printed out. It is inadviseable to practice 
your instrument looking at the 72 dpi of the computer screen rather than a 
300 dpi printed score. That's bad for your eyes. The PDF files certainly are 
perfectly readable and legible, so therefore, I don't think it is sad or 
even undesireable to have the slight aliasing issues you see. After all, 72 
dpi will always be inferior to 300 dpi no matter how you slice it. If 
Lilypond is optimized for 300 dpi, that is a good thing.

Stephen

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