Re: Making nice fonts for pdf

[Mats Bengtsson]

If you installed from an RPM or some other prebuild package, just
use 'ly2dvi -p myfile.ly' and you will get a nice-looking PDF file.

If you build Lilypond yourself, see
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2002-10/msg00237.html

   /Mats

Carter Brey wrote:
> Every time I use ps2pdf to create a Portable Document File version of a 
> score, the output viewed through Acrobat Reader is rather choppy 
> looking. The printout is fine; it's just the onscreen image that leaves 
> something to be desired.
>
> I seem to remember a post here a while back that referred to a use of 
> something like mftrace to create pdf fonts that look good onscreen. 
> Could someone remind me about that, and exactly what the implementation is?
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Carter


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