David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > On Sat 27 Jul 2019 at 18:57:35 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: >> David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: >> > On Sat 27 Jul 2019 at 11:32:58 (+0100), Wols Lists wrote: >> >> On 26/07/19 12:23, Peter Toye wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Thanks very much for all the suggestions. I had asked for an _easy_ way! >> >> > Also, I'm not 100% fussed about the exact layout as it's only for an >> >> > example. >> >> >> >> Just a thought ... can't lily chuck out png's? I've never used it, but >> >> if it can chuck out one png per line it'll cost a little bit of effort >> >> to assemble it in your word processor of choice, but you could import >> >> them, and then put the text between the lines. >> > >> > I would advise against that because PNGs are rastered. The hint is in >> > the name: portable-Network-graphics. >> >> Uh, what in the name indicates rasterisation? > > Perhaps I was a little oblique: "Network" indicates that the format is > designed for transfer of images over the network, rather than between > local applications.
PDF is a compressed and limited form of PostScript that also allows for compressing whole objects. It supports vectorised as well as rasterised objects comparatively effectively and is used a tiny bit on networks. > I'm not overconcerned whether people see this as a hint not to use > PNGs in this workflow. But I assume you're not supporting their use, > are you. I have no idea who "you" is supposed in that context and what "support" is supposed to mean. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
