Knut Petersen <knup...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi Lukas, >> This time around, I could get it to compile. :-) >> > Thanks for testing > > >> After testing it against a bunch of my recent everyday LilyPond >> documents: For most of the files, it seems to work perfectly. (In >> Okular, I seem to notice very subtle differences in line widths, but >> those may be rendering artifacts.) > > The same is true for glyphs ... I have to investigate if there is a > minor ghostscript or cairo or poppler (=previewer) problem > > >> >> Also, in most cases, the Cairo-generated pdf is much smaller than >> the original. This seems most promising and not far from production >> quality! > > probably you did not use \pointAndClickOff ;-) At least the code of > ly:cairo-draw-round-box in my patch needs optimizations and can be > tuned to generate much smaller pdf code.
Well, the PostScript code sucks for a reason. It goes to tremendous effort to make stems in bitmaps end up more consistent in thickness than rendering left and right edge independently would. -- David Kastrup
