Atte wrote:

>Wouldn't pdf be a nice format? IMO better than gif. You could offer both.

Gifs display directly in the browser window, whereas pdfs require Acrobat
Reader to start up to display them.  (The work is essentially an off-line
web site.)

Acrobat Reader doesn't understand music, and (for example) doesn't know
that staff lines MUST be equally spaced.  If (as usually happens) the
spacing of the staff lines doesn't fit the pixel spacing it tries to
make up for this by antialiasing them, so they come out fuzzy and different
thicknesses.  All of which is irrelevant if you print on a high resolution
printer, but it looks bad on screen.

The pictures were made by BarFly, which does understand music, and makes
lots of little compromises to make the music readable on screen.

Phil Taylor


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