Re: PDF Problem

[Steve Schow]

Using a different PDF viewer is not really an acceptable solution for work
that will be published on the internet.  It needs to be acceptably viewable
in ANY pdf viewer on any platform.  

I will point out again, that if a PDF is created on the mac(with finale), it
looks fine on windows.  Also if I create the PDF with overture on windows,
it looks fine on windows.  Also if I use the postscript output option of
Finale on windows, those PDF's also look fine on windows...even in the
crummy PDF viewers that have been mentioned they look excellent.  I am
guessing that the lilypond manual was created on linux.  It does not look ok
on windows in any case.

By the way, I just loaded up Ubuntu linux on vmware to see some PDF
rendering there.  Here is with Linux adobe reader:

http://www.nabble.com/file/p11699968/ScreenHunter_05%2BJul.%2B19%2B15.55.jpg 

Here is with KPDF:

http://www.nabble.com/file/p11699968/ScreenHunter_05%2BJul.%2B19%2B15.55.jpg 

Here is from KGhostView:

http://www.nabble.com/file/p11699968/ScreenHunter_05%2BJul.%2B19%2B15.55.jpg 

They all have problems, on linux.  now granted, that is running on top of
VMware... is this a display driver issue or a rasterizing issue?  What
exactly *IS* the issue?

Seems to me that lilypond is producing some form of postscript that is not
resiliant enough, or portable enough to display well in all viewers and
platforms.  Why not make it so ly scores will be more universaly
displayable?  





Valentin Villenave wrote:
> 
> 2007/7/20, Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> 
>> Because your on-screen PDF viewer lies to you.  Particularly on windows.
> 
> Yes, this is something I noticed. On windows for example, the JPedal
> viewer which is included in LilyPondTool produces awfuls results ;
> Adobe is not very good either. I used Foxit Reader, which is by far
> the best PDF viewer (and it is free as free beer), along with Sumatra
> which is free as free speech, but lacks many features.
> 
> On Mac, the native PDF-to-display that they call Quartz is absolutely
> awesome ; whenever I want to see what a PDF really looks like, (and
> whenever I can), I use a Mac for both export and viewing.
> 
> On Linux, the JPedal is crappy as usual :) but some PDF viewers are
> quite good (evince is my favorite; it make LilyPond scores look really
> great). Besides, Linux has some native anti-aliasing features which
> make fonts and stuff look really better than on Windows.
> 
> So, maybe you should consider using another viewer, another output
> format (high-res PNG?).. or another OS ;) [OK, never mind]
> 
> Regards,
> Valentin
> 
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