Re: newbie:poor quality output

2006-01-14 Thread debian
Quoting may be screwed up: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:26:36PM +0100, Erik Sandberg wrote: > > > Starting at version 2.6, lilypond handles fonts etc. in a completely > > different > > way (without using TeX), so the smoothest fix could be to install version > > 2.6. > > On the debian web sit

Re: newbie:poor quality output

2006-01-12 Thread Gilles
Hi. > > But, the quality of my pdf files is very poor. Notes and staff lines > etc look ugly. Probably this is a font problem, but I do not know how > to proceed. > Try to install the font package from there: http://lilypond.org/download/fonts/ Gilles _

Re: newbie:poor quality output

2006-01-12 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Thursday 12 January 2006 09.01, debian wrote: > Please, > > I have just started using Lilypond (2.4.5) on a debian sarge system > and I am getting on reasonably well with the syntax. > > But, the quality of my pdf files is very poor. Notes and staff lines > etc look ugly. Probably this is a fo

Re: newbie:poor quality output

2006-01-12 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
debian wrote: > Please, > > I have just started using Lilypond (2.4.5) on a debian sarge system > and I am getting on reasonably well with the syntax. > > But, the quality of my pdf files is very poor. Notes and staff lines > etc look ugly. Probably this is a font problem, but I do not know how

Re: newbie:poor quality output

2006-01-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
It seems that you have some installation problems, even though it's hard to say exactly what the problem is without seeing an example PDF file and the printouts of lilypond --verbose yourfile.ly On the other hand, I really recommend to install LilyPond version 2.6 instead. It has several improvem

Re: newbie:poor quality output

2006-01-12 Thread D Josiah Boothby
Are you referring to printed output or screen display of the pdf? Different PDF viewers and ghostscript libraries seem to produce different results on screen, sometimes in some fairly problematic ways. I have seen no problems when I've printed to paper, however. Josiah On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, d

newbie:poor quality output

2006-01-11 Thread debian
Please, I have just started using Lilypond (2.4.5) on a debian sarge system and I am getting on reasonably well with the syntax. But, the quality of my pdf files is very poor. Notes and staff lines etc look ugly. Probably this is a font problem, but I do not know how to proceed. Thanks Joe