Re: barline problem

[Erik Sandberg]

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 17:25, Stephen wrote:
> Your right, Lilypond does not produce PDF files, ghostscript does. So the
> only thing Lilypond could do is add additional hinting in the PostScript
> file as Hans has already suggested. And as you've already pointed out, what
> matters is how the music looks printed out. It is inadviseable to practice
> your instrument looking at the 72 dpi of the computer screen rather than a
> 300 dpi printed score. That's bad for your eyes.

I think there exist music stands consisting of TFT displays nowadays, so good 
on-screen rendering is desirable to some extent. However, I'd advise to 
produce png output if you want to view output on screen: pngs are optimised 
for on-screen viewing regardless of which viewer you use, and they can 
probably be displayed a lot faster than pdf or ps can.

> The PDF files certainly 
> are perfectly readable and legible, so therefore, I don't think it is sad
> or even undesireable to have the slight aliasing issues you see. After all,
> 72 dpi will always be inferior to 300 dpi no matter how you slice it. If
> Lilypond is optimized for 300 dpi, that is a good thing.

btw, lily is optimized for 600 dpi iirc: the stems have slightly rounded 
edges, this is not visible on resolutions below 600dpi.

-- 
Erik