Don Simons wrote: > Could someone post short comparative examples that illustrate the better > screen rendering and smaller pdf's from pdftex and dvipdfm vs gsview32? >
Here a 2 version of the same pdf-score prepared with ps2pdf, pdftex and dvipdfm resp. http://www.icking-music-archive.org/cmo/musik/outgoing/tuche_ps2pdf.pdf http://www.icking-music-archive.org/cmo/musik/outgoing/tuche_pdftex.pdf http://www.icking-music-archive.org/cmo/musik/outgoing/tuche_dvipdfm.pdf You'll notice that the pdftex- and dvipdfm generated score have lager file size than that generated with ps2pdf Here are the scores viewed with my daily linux pdf viewer xpdf: http://www.icking-music-archive.org/cmo/musik/outgoing/Screenshot-Xpdf-tuche_pdftex.png http://www.icking-music-archive.org/cmo/musik/outgoing/Screenshot-Xpdf-tuche_ps2pdf.png And here they are viewed with the linux port of Acrobat Reader 8 http://www.icking-music-archive.org/cmo/musik/outgoing/Screenshot-Adobe-Reader-tuche_pdftex.png http://www.icking-music-archive.org/cmo/musik/outgoing/Screenshot-Adobe-Reader-tuche_ps2pdf.png As you'll notice there is little, if any difference in the screen rendering from Acrobat Reader Here is the base M-Tx code of the score http://www.icking-music-archive.org/cmo/musik/outgoing/tuche.mtx Greetings -- Christian Mondrup, Sheet Music Editor WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive http://icking-music-archive.org/ _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
