Christian Mondrup wrote:
>
> Don Simons wrote:
> > Now the real reason for this post is to point out what seems to be a
> > purely Linux problem: I also succeeded in making a pdf directly with
> > dvipdfm. The printed output was OK except for the horizontal beams.
> > Every one protruded beyond the stem where it should have stopped. I'm
> > guessing the horizontal beams are drawn in postscript, while the slanted
> > ones are fonts. It looks like dvipdfm is extending the lines that make
> > up the beams with a semicircle whose diameter equals the line width. So
> > the questions are: Has anyone else noticed this?
>
> Not with the pdf scores I've been producing by means of the new type 1
> fonts and dvipdfm (Redhat Linux/TeTeX). Take as an example Andr�'s
> typesetting of Mozart, 'Laudate Dominum' to which I on request added a
> pdf score a few days ago. There are lots of beams in the piano
> accompaniment. When viewing the result with gv (a flavour of Ghostview)
> I don't recognize anything like that described. However, for certain
> magnifications Acrobat Reader actually shows *some* beams somewhat
> extended. But they get 'normal' again with changed magnification.
>
I doubt that the misalignment Christian has seen are related to my
problem. I don't see the overextended, rounded horizontal beams on
screen at all, only in printed outputs. And further research reveals
that it's printer-dependent. I printed one page of the Mozart from
Acrobat in Win98 on an HP Laserjet 4MV (non-postscript) and saw the
effect (again, on horizontal beams only); but the same page did not show
the effect on an HP Laserjet 4M (postscript). So my working theory would
be that it's a bug in whatever software decodes the postscript for the
non-postscript printer. Maybe I should try updating the LJ4MV printer
driver?
--Don
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