Re: barline problem

[Walter Hofmeister]

On 6/14/06 10:22 AM, "Dewdman42" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> You are of course welcome to your opinion, but you have not changed my mind.
> I need better PDF output.  printed sheet music is not the only reason for
> needing to produce music notation.  Lilypond will not work for me in that
> regard.  I may or may not still use it for printing if it will not involve
> too much duplication of work.  I do really like the printed output of
> Lilypond a lot.  Its beautiful.  But it is sad I can't use lilypond for the
> whole thing.  There are plenty of reasons why someone would want some decent
> looking PDF files by the way.  The ones produced now are really crap.  not
> slightly bad.  Crap.  Finale suffers the same fate.  Whatever the technlogy
> that would be needed to make Lilypond produce better looking PDF's in
> addition to the beautiful printed pages..consider this my official plea to
> the developers to try to do that.
> 
> regards
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> 
I just tried converting the postscript file that lilypond generates to PDF
using both the built-in conversion in the Mac OS and Adobe Acrobat
Professional and here are the results: The built-in Mac OS conversion looks
the same as what Lilypond produces (likely also uses Ghostscript) but here
is the surprising part: Acrobat professional produces noticeably worse
looking file despite setting it for higher quality display.

Walter