Re: Printing problem with Evince

[Francisco Vila]

2008/9/24 Johan Vromans <address@hidden>:
> I noticed that Evince (I have Fedora 8 with Evince 2.20.2) does a
> lousy job on printing LilyPond scores. It may do a bad job on other
> prints as well, but the effect on LilyPond scores is dramatic.
>
> See for yourself: http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/lpev.png .
>
> Image left is scanned from a print by Acrobat, the image right is a
> scan from a print produced by Evince. Both programs printed to the
> same 600dpi HP Laserjet which involves a Ghostscript filter.
>
> This may be a known issue, though I could not find any references to
> it.
>
> -- Johan
>   Chord is alive! http://chordii.sourceforge.net

I reported the same problem with very similar pictures. This seems to
be a fault of the bad rendering Evince does from the thin rounded
rectangles that LilyPond makes for barlines. Use kpdf. :-(
-- 
Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
http://www.paconet.org