At 11:25 AM 7/13/01 +0100, you wrote:
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?
Why do you think PDF is bloated? In my experience PDF is as good or better
than PS and usually 5 or 10 times SMALLER. Not all
John Chambers wrote:
Frank wrote:
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| 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...
Yah; but it's a bit disappointing to see that the most popular format
is the one with
John Chambers wrote:
I just checked the file size of a randomly choosen piece of music (a guitar
transcription of Georg Fuhrman's Tanz) in different formats:
PDF (Finale): 19 391 bytes
I don't think it's usual for a PDF file to be *this* compact. It probably
has something to do with the fact
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?
Presumably GIF music would look better if it were generated directly
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?
Presumably GIF music would look better
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
