Re: Latest lilypond git master creating PDF 1.4 files instead of 1.7

[Valentin Petzel]

Hello David,

I'm simply using a colored markup with alpha channel. Such as 
\markup\with-color #(rgb-color 1 0 0 0.5) "a"

Cheers,
Valentin

13.09.2021 06:59:02 David Wright <lilylis@lionunicorn.co.uk>:

> On Sat 11 Sep 2021 at 21:35:00 (+0200), Valentin Petzel wrote:
>> From what I see pdftops appears to be intelligent enough to rasterize the 
>> file
>> only if it does actually contain transparency. If it does it uses a much less
>> smooth rasterization that is probably not fit for printing, so be careful 
>> with
>> this! See the attached picture for a comparisation, the left one is poppler
>> (pdftops), the right one gs (pdf2ps).
> 
> How do you produce an original PDF for carrying out this test?
> 
> Cheers,
> David.