Re: [OT] Printer with or without Postscript

2015-10-20 Thread Johan Vromans
On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 18:07:27 -0500 David Wright wrote: > Does the PDF file you're viewing in evince look ok when you magnify it > on the screen? If so, what does method 2 produce when you print that > file? This should help isolate your problem. For the sake of

Re: [OT] Printer with or without Postscript

2015-10-19 Thread David Wright
Quoting Johan Vromans (jvrom...@squirrel.nl): > On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 21:17:19 +1100 > Andrew Bernard wrote: > > > I am not convinced evince is very good at anything at all. Would this not > > be an issue with evince, rather than other parts of the toolchain? > > That

Re: [OT] Printer with or without Postscript

2015-10-19 Thread Johan Vromans
On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:59:42 -0500 David Wright wrote: > A very common workflow but IMO a very poor one. If you have problems > printing, where do you start looking for the cause? (for example, > artifacts like those in the right side of your lpev.png). > > I only

Re: [OT] Printer with or without Postscript

2015-10-19 Thread David Wright
Quoting Johan Vromans (jvrom...@squirrel.nl): > On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:59:42 -0500 > David Wright wrote: > > > A very common workflow but IMO a very poor one. If you have problems > > printing, where do you start looking for the cause? (for example, > > artifacts like

Re: [OT] Printer with or without Postscript

2015-10-13 Thread Andrew Bernard
I am not convinced evince is very good at anything at all. Would this not be an issue with evince, rather than other parts of the toolchain? What if you do the same with say Mac OS X Preview? Andrew > On 13 Oct 2015, at 21:09, Johan Vromans wrote: > > See e.g.

Re: [OT] Printer with or without Postscript

2015-10-13 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 21:17:19 +1100 Andrew Bernard wrote: > I am not convinced evince is very good at anything at all. Would this not > be an issue with evince, rather than other parts of the toolchain? That could very well be the case. I was just referring to a common

Re: [OT] Printer with or without Postscript

2015-10-13 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:39:35 +1100 Andrew Bernard wrote: > Whatever page description > language your printer uses internally, the printer driver software on > your computer will convert your file to that language format and print > it. > [...] > Postscript itself is

Re: [OT] Printer with or without Postscript

2015-10-13 Thread Wols Lists
On 13/10/15 11:09, Johan Vromans wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:39:35 +1100 > Andrew Bernard wrote: > >> > Whatever page description >> > language your printer uses internally, the printer driver software on >> > your computer will convert your file to that language

[OT] Printer with or without Postscript

2015-10-12 Thread flup2
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Re: [OT] Printer with or without Postscript

2015-10-12 Thread Jonathan Webster
On 10/12/2015 04:29 PM, flup2 wrote: Hello, Until now, I always had Postscript laser printers. My printer is now out of order, and I would like to know if there is still such a huge difference between music scores printed with printers including postscript language, and printers without this

Re: [OT] Printer with or without Postscript

2015-10-12 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Philippe, It is of virtually zero concern nowadays. Whatever page description language your printer uses internally, the printer driver software on your computer will convert your file to that language format and print it. The drivers are quite sophisticated nowadays. It would be very hard