On 23 Sep 2007 at 15:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Since PDFs are basically postscript, and Finale's display, I guess, is > > also > > a kind of postscript, this should be solved easily. > > This does not address the fact that Finale's "Compile Postscript Listing" > function produces a perfect display. Finale prints to Postscript and > compiles Postscript quite differently.
This is perfectly explainable. On Windows, there is the native graphics/printing subsystem, which has zilch to do with PostScript. On Windows, Finale outputs using the Windows graphics/printing subsystem's primitives, which are then translated by a specific printer driver into that printer's output language. So, on Windows when printing to a PDF driver, Finale is sending *Windows* commands that are then translated by the driver into PostScript. When you compile a PS listing, Finale is doing the conversion, rather than letting the PDF driver do it, and Finale probably sends different commands to its internal PS interpreter than it would send to the Windows universal print driver. On Mac, there is no issue of this kind, as the Mac "universal print driver" is built on top of PostScript in the first place, so the same Finale primitive output could drive both compiling to PS and printing to a PDF driver. But, again, the problem as I see it is *not* with Finale, but with Acrobat's incorrect line smoothing. I don't know why Finale sends multiple thin lines instead of a single line with a particular thickness to the print driver, but perhaps there's a reason for that. I fear, though, that the reason is that this is a holdover from pre- TrueType days (i.e., circa Finale 2.01). I can't imagine that any modern printer or display could not properly render a line that was defined as a single line with a thickness instead of as a bunch of thing lines bunched together to make a thick line. But I don't know the details. Perhaps it's much more complicated than it looks and that's why MM has not changed the way Finale on Windows outputs lines to the universal printer driver. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
