>|Adobe Acrobat Standard 8.3.0 Try 9.4.
>|See if this come thru. It's a screen capture from the posted PDF, >|blown up. I can definitely see that. But I don't get anything like that using 9.4 or any other PDF viewer. >|And here's a corresponding blown-up screen capture from the .ps I produced >|with default dvips settings, viewed in gsview32 version 4.8 at >|"resolution" >|166 166 is going to give you pixelation effects. You can see how the beams are now sawtoothing. >|And here's a screen capture of the PDF from Sumatra: >| >|I agree it looks better, but it's still not perfect. All of these views >|suggest that the beams don't extend far enough to the right. I think there are two effects here. The musixtex type 1 fonts are *not* well-hinted. Karl Berry has pointed out to me that t1lint, a program to test validity of type 1 fonts, generates lots of error messages on the musixtex fonts. Apparently the hinting wasn't done right and some PDF viewers may not be using the hinting at all. That might explain the differences between the PDF views. That said, I agree that when a beam uses a steep angle, the join with the last stem isn't quite right. I avoid angles greater than 5 altogether; then the effect isn't really visible till 1600% magnification. >|I think someone did address this in the past, and provided some sort of >|software fix. I vaguely remember something too but not whether there was a fix. >|But even if we can't dredge that up or solve it anew, >|I'm not >|going to stop using either MusiXTeX or Adobe Acrobat. If you must use the Adobe Reader, a recent version might give you better results. Bob >|>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >|Behalf Of >| >|>Bob Tennent >| >|>Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 2:18 PM >| >|>To: Werner Icking Music Archive >| >|>Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Alignment of stems with beam and noteheads in >|MusiXTeX >| >|> >|http://www.icking-music-archive.org/scores/rossi/toccata-settima.pdf, >| >|> >|e.g., >| >|> >|first group of 16ths in bar 5 bass clef. >| >|>Looks OK to me. Which PDF viewer are you using? Try another one. For >| >|>Windows, I recommend Sumatra PDF: >| >|>http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html >| >|>Bob T. ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
