Phil Taylor wrote: | 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.
This is a problem with boh Acrobat (acroread) and Ghostview, and probably with any other PS or PDF viewer. It took me a while to discover why music looked so awful with ghostview. Finally I tried turning off the antialiasing (though I didn't really have much of an idea what that did), and then the music looked really nice. It does have a problem on a small screen or small window, with staff lines not quite evenly spaced. But this is better than what antialiasing does to the staffs. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html