ecified, so it should "just work", right?
Thanks for any tips.
Vivian.
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From: Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Steve Schow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Friday, 20 July, 2007 3:46:25 AM
Subject: Re: PDF Problem
2007/7
Rune. THANKS FOR TRACKING THAT DOWN BRUTHA!
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Rune Zedeler skrev:
I understand why the viewers have problems with lilypond's pdfs: For
some reason lilypond does loads of conversions to and from millimeters.
Oh, I never learn not to post comments late at night.
The above really had nothing (afaics) to do with the problem.
It should be fai
Okay, I took a look.
I understand why the viewers have problems with lilypond's pdfs: For
some reason lilypond does loads of conversions to and from millimeters.
I think it has something to do with lily defining one point to be
1/72.27 inch, whereas a postscript (and pdf) point is 1/72 inch.
The
and here are a couple PDF's. I can't share the last one from Overture yet
due to licensing issues.
http://www.nabble.com/file/p11701415/test_ghost_direct.pdf
test_ghost_direct.pdf
http://www.nabble.com/file/p11701415/test_ghost_manual.pdf
test_ghost_manual.pdf
http://www.nabble.com/file/p117
Steve Schow skrev:
Ok, here is a short example.
Would you please post a /pdf/ (or ps)?
-Rune
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Ok, here is a short example.
This is using windows ghostscript, and using the pre-compiled postscript
file from Finale:
http://www.nabble.com/file/p11701393/ScreenHunter_03%2BJul.%2B19%2B19.33.jpg
This is using windows ghostscript direct from finale, through the print
driver:
http://www.nabbl
Steve Schow skrev:
I use ghostscript to produce overture and finale PDF's
which look spectacular on screen on windows.
Would you please post a small pdf created by finale, so that we have
something to compare?
-Rune
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> For what it's worth, here's my screenshot of the same snippet
> (Linux64). It's not perfect, but not so ugly though.
Couldn't see your image?
> Honestly, I don't think LilyPond developers *can* fix it (maybe
> GhostScript guys could,
I totally disagree. I use ghostscript to produce ove
2007/7/20, Steve Schow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Unfortunately I can't, which is why I am now reduced to begging, pleading,
groveling and anything else that will influence the developers of Lilypond
to consider fixing it.
For what it's worth, here's my screenshot of the same snippet
(Linux64). It's
Unfortunately I can't, which is why I am now reduced to begging, pleading,
groveling and anything else that will influence the developers of Lilypond
to consider fixing it.
Graham Percival-2 wrote:
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> If you can contribute any code that addresses
> these issues, great.
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> - Graham
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Steve Schow wrote:
Seems to me that lilypond is producing some form of postscript that is not
resiliant enough, or portable enough to display well in all viewers and
platforms.
I repeat:
Please search the mailists (user, devel, and possibly bug) for previous
discussions about this. If you can
Using a different PDF viewer is not really an acceptable solution for work
that will be published on the internet. It needs to be acceptably viewable
in ANY pdf viewer on any platform.
I will point out again, that if a PDF is created on the mac(with finale), it
looks fine on windows. Also if
2007/7/20, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Because your on-screen PDF viewer lies to you. Particularly on windows.
Yes, this is something I noticed. On windows for example, the JPedal
viewer which is included in LilyPondTool produces awfuls results ;
Adobe is not very good either. I used
Steve Schow wrote:
Ok, here's a question. I know this question comes up occasionally. I
have been one of the people bringing it up. Why do lilypond PDF's look
crappy on-screen, even though they print fine? particularly on windows.
Because your on-screen PDF viewer lies to you. Particularl
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