Re: Printing problem with Evince

[Jonathan Kulp]

I have only a couple of non-free apps on my Ubuntu machines, and Acrobat 
Reader is one of them because of this problem.  :(

Jon

p.s. BTW, Apple's Preview also seems to render lilypond-generated .pdf 
files badly compared to Acrobat Reader.  At least when I print them they 
look terrible from Preview.

Francisco Vila wrote:
> 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. :-(

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