ok, ran an experiment. for whatever its worth... Overture produced very clean and decent looking PDF files. No aliasing or weird artifacts. Finale2006 produced crapola...even worse than lilypond. I wonder what the difference is? I'm guessing that somehow the finale PDF and Lilypond PDF are encoded in such a way that you can print those PDF's to a high resolution printer and get excellent results. But somehow their collection of vectors does not display well at lower 72dpi resolution in PDF viewers. For whatever the reason, the pdf produced from Overture looks just fine in PDF viewer, but I doubt its print is as good as Finale or Lilypond. (Shrug)?? However I zoomed the Overture PDF in to 200% and 400% and it still looked great. It looked great and evenly great at all resolutions.
By the way, I used pdf995 to produce the PDF's from Finale and Overture (and that other guitar tab program I sometimes use). The point of this post is that it *IS* possible to get better looking music notation in PDF form. The PDF viewer is not neccessarily the limiting factor. My believe is that finale and Lilypond are perhaps leaning too heavily on postscript, and expecting the PDF readers to sort it out at view time..while overture is probably not using poscript directly in the program, but rather relying on the print driver to generate what works best. Same with my guitar tab program. Hence, the pdf995 can produce a quality PDF in both of those two cases, but with Finale and lilypond suffer in this area. Again, maybe there is some setting somewhere, but I think this probably related more to the fact that lilypond is postscript in its core. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/barline-problem-t1778120.html#a4851070 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User forum at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
