On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, John Chambers wrote: > (Wouldn't it be useful if browsers would display PS and PDF? As far > as I can tell, the reason they don't is that PS and PDF are patented > formats owned by Adobe. This ought not to matter, since it's legal to > decode and display them. But it's easy to understand why people might > be wary of doing something that has a high probability of getting IP > lawyers involved. ;-)
Which is why we use GIF instead. Right. < *grin* > > It depends on your screen, mostly. When I first tried GhostView on my > home machine, it was very nearly unreadable. About half the staff > lines and most of the note stems were weird multi-color things that > didn't look much like music at all. It may have had something to do > with my color settings. Of course, I had no clue why it was so awful. > It took a lot of experimenting until I stumbled across the > "antialias" setting, wondered what it was, flipped the setting, and > saw some very nice music notation suddenly appear on the screen. I hadn't realised this until you just mentioned it. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
