I haven't tried this (silly, I know), but I will try tomorrow morning when I get to work. I'm starting to think that it IS the viewer. Would the PDF viewer actually affect the printout? I believe I was using Preview on the mac. Has anyone else had difficulties with this particular program?
Thanks to all for your responses! On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Nick Payne <nick.pa...@internode.on.net>wrote: > On 29/02/12 06:42, Bryn Hughes wrote: > >> Hello, all. >> >> I'm a musician and music theorist who has been back and forth to lilypond >> over the past few years, and I've recently decided to make the effort to >> learn lilypond thoroughly enough that it can become my main notation >> software. I have a question that I hope is not too ignorant. I've searched >> through the manuals and other online resources and can't seem to figure out >> the answer. Here's hoping one of you experts has a solution. >> >> I use both a Mac (at work) and a Windows machine (at home), and I've >> noticed some subtle but important discrepancies when rendering PDFs with >> lilypond on each of my machines. Specifically, I notice that when I render >> the PDF on my iMac, the stems are misaligned with their respective >> noteheads. I also notice that in some places the noteheads seem slightly >> detached from the stems. Conversely, on when I render the PDF in Windows, >> the problem disappears. Instead, I find that my margins have been ignored, >> and everything looks slightly larger. Overall, I'd say that the rendering >> on Windows looks much better, though it'd be nice to have full control of >> formatting as well. >> > > If you create PDFs from the same ly file on both platforms using the same > version of Lilypond, and view the PDFs on one platform, do they look > different? i.e. Is the variation in the PDF viewer. > > Nick > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/**listinfo/lilypond-user<https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user> >
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