On Ubuntu, for many versions now, the default pdf viower prints bar lines at a double width. The application Okular, which I added, works perfectly well. Sop it might be the PDF reader itself and not lilypond.
Shane On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:26 PM, James Lowe <[email protected]> wrote: > hello, > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] on behalf of > Jean-Alexis Montignies [[email protected]] > Sent: 17 July 2011 13:51 > To: lilypond-user > Subject: printed bars thickness inconsistencies > > Hi All! > > I have since I use lilypond some problems when printing. Bars (standard ones) > are of different thickness. > > It happens on my printer (Xerox 5400) but no on some others so I first > thought it was a printer problem. > > What makes me think it could be a problem with generated pdf is: > - it only happens with bars. > - it happens if I print with Preview.app (the display on the screen is > correct) but not with acrobat reader (the print is correct with acrobat > reader). > - the bars looks exactly the same wether I choose print definition of 300dpi > or 600dpi. > > What do you think. How to check this? To dip into the generated postscript? > (I think I'm not expert enough in postscript to pin point problems, may be > some smoothing/rounding issue) > > ---------------- > > You could, but I have a feeling it is the PDF viewer application that is at > fault here. > > I have similar problems with Foxit vs Acrobrat where the 'hole' in the sharp > glyph is rounded in Foxit but not in Acrobat (this was for Windows). If > Acrobat is correct then use that to print with and report the problem to > apple, I did the same with Foxit (Had no reply) but I gave them the PDF file > the comparative screenshots and the PS file that is generated. > > James > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
