Frank wrote:
| Jack Campin wrote:
| > > most of the tune finder's users seem to want it to return staff
| > > notation (usually in GIF - yuck!)
| >
| > A lot of people can't print PostScript, JPEG looks foul for music,
| > and PDF is a bloated waste of space, so what else is there?
|
| It seems most of the people looking for sheet music on Internet simply
| wants something readable to play from. High quality isn't important at
| all. After all it isn't as if a computer printout will ever become a
| collector's item.
Yah; but it's a bit disappointing to see that the most popular format
is the one with the lowest quality. Oh well, I guess that's true of
computers, too. In fact, I have a lot of evidence that these two are
closely correlated. This isn't too surprising, since the very popular
systems of the lowest quality seem to be the only ones that still
don't come with postscript software already installed.
The above argument should tell people to ask for PNG rather than GIF.
PNG has all the low-quality display properties of GIF, is also
accepted by all current graphical browsers, but seems to average
around 30% smaller. So you can get the same poor quality and save
yourself some waiting time. Maybe the people who insist on the
poorest quality in their graphics also insist on slow download times.
(But I don't try to persuade anyone; I just have my software return
whichever format was requested. ;-)
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