E.g. LilyPondTool preview is better. ---- Original message ---- From: Martin Tarenskeen <[email protected]> Sent: 2 Jul 2009 10:18 +02:00 To: Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: good rendering of PDF
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 08:42:44AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >From time to time, users complain that the display of lilypond PDF > files with acroread or xpdf looks awkward on screen. In such cases, I > strongly recommend to use ghostscript itself to view the PDF file, or > a wrapper program like gv or gsview. > > Have a look at the attached image: the left part shows the rendering > result of a piece (compiled with lilypond 2.13.1) with gv (at 25% > scaling, using gs 8.64), and the right part is with acroread 8.1.5 (at > 58.6% scaling). What a difference. > Interesting and strange! I don't know in de detail how these programs work. The ghostscript version definitely looks much better. Will this difference still be there on paper when the score is printed ? Or is it just a screen issue ? And what about other alternative PDF viewers like okular, evince, xpdf (on Linux) or other alternative PDF viewers that exist (I just don't know them, I never use Windows) for Windows? -- Martin _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
