On 23 Sep 2007 at 22:02, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > The problem with the windows PDF output displayed in Reader is that all > the lines are different thickness, extremely thick, and the notes are so > blotchy one can't read them.
Well, that's a horse of a different color. On every PC I've ever viewed my own PDFs (with Acrobat Reader), *some* of the lines are of varying thicknesses, and usually just two different thicknesses (1 pixel or 2), and the notes themselves are just fine and dandy. I do note that increasing the magnification from 100% to 200% to 300% to 400% causes different lines to be thicker/thinner, but still, there's just two line thicknesses (1 pixel or 2). But, again, I cite Acrobat Reader 6, which was able to smooth these lines so that the thicknesses did not vary, and did not do it with anti-aliasing that resulted in gray lines. But I've *never* seen blurry noteheads (I have seen a few blurry beams, but mostly when the angle was very shallow and the anti- aliasing had to be spread over a number of horizontal pixels). There could also be differences on Windows machines depending on whether you're using Windows anti-aliasing or the newer ClearType (which is designed specifically for LCD screens and shouldn't be used with CRTs). While ClearType has major flaws (see http://antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.html for a detailed look at the problem), it works quite well for getting onscreen clarity. But Acrobat Reader perhaps uses internal methods for this, and maybe this is why things look bad on Windows (the basic difference between Apple anti-aliasing and MS anti-aliasing is whether you respect the font shape/widths or respect the screen grid; if you do the former, you get blurry text that is properly proportioned at all sizes and on all devices; if you do the latter, the proportions change according to the size, because you're adjusting the glyph shape to the pixel grid) -- because Windows users are used to seeing a different kind of anti-aliasing, or because the two kinds of anti-aliasing cause conflicts. Of course, I don't have a problem with Acrobat Reader's rendering of anything but lines, so I'm not sure where the fuzzy notes are coming from. I've simply never seen it. -- 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
