Re: Printing problem with Evince

[Jonathan Kulp]

Hmm.  I changed the print driver to a ps one.  That driver wasn't 
available when I was using the cups interface to hook up to the 
printer--very limited options for drivers on Mac's cups system--but once 
the printer was installed that way I was able to reconfigure using the 
regular OSX interface.  I printed a page from Preview and it looks 
great.  :)

I know I was using a ps driver when I got fuzzy edges, though, because I 
printed an orchestral score on 11x17 paper, and I'm certain that I set 
that printer up using a ps driver--it's the only one in our dept. that 
handles 11x17 paper, and I always set it up with care.  I don't even 
recall now whether I was using Preview or Acrobat when I printed the big 
score, but you can see all kinds of fuzzy edges if you look closely. 
Maybe I need to specify a higher resolution when running Lilypond on 
this file?  The global staff size is set to 16.  Do you think this is 
why it could be printing with fuzzy edges?  Doesn't seem likely but I 
suppose it's possible...

Jon

Alexander Kobel wrote:
> Jonathan Kulp wrote:
> > I haven't looked very far into it.  I use Preview for previewing things,
> > because as you say it's very fast, but if I have to print it and make it
> > look good, I use Adobe Reader.  It's probably the print driver, because
> > when I zoom in on-screen everything looks great on Preview.  Maybe I'll
> > redo the printer setup.
>
> Well, than it is strange that the Adobe reader does a better job. Does
> Adobe rasterize everything before printing by default?

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Jonathan Kulp
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