On 6/13/06 11:35 AM, "Dewdman42" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ok, ran an experiment. for whatever its worth... Overture produced very > clean and decent looking PDF files. No aliasing or weird artifacts. > Finale2006 produced crapola...even worse than lilypond. I wonder what the > difference is? I'm guessing that somehow the finale PDF and Lilypond PDF > are encoded in such a way that you can print those PDF's to a high > resolution printer and get excellent results. But somehow their collection > of vectors does not display well at lower 72dpi resolution in PDF viewers. > For whatever the reason, the pdf produced from Overture looks just fine in > PDF viewer, but I doubt its print is as good as Finale or Lilypond. > (Shrug)?? However I zoomed the Overture PDF in to 200% and 400% and it > still looked great. It looked great and evenly great at all resolutions. > > By the way, I used pdf995 to produce the PDF's from Finale and Overture (and > that other guitar tab program I sometimes use). > > The point of this post is that it *IS* possible to get better looking music > notation in PDF form. The PDF viewer is not neccessarily the limiting > factor. My believe is that finale and Lilypond are perhaps leaning too > heavily on postscript, and expecting the PDF readers to sort it out at view > time..while overture is probably not using poscript directly in the program, > but rather relying on the print driver to generate what works best. Same > with my guitar tab program. Hence, the pdf995 can produce a quality PDF in > both of those two cases, but with Finale and lilypond suffer in this area. > > Again, maybe there is some setting somewhere, but I think this probably > related more to the fact that lilypond is postscript in its core. > > -- I would say that in older versions of Lilypond where it relied on LaTex, the PDFs were much better looking on the screen. Walter Hofmeister _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
