> My site, Musica Viva, includes more than 500 PDFs and a few thousand > ABCs, but GIF is still the main format for sheet music on the site. > There are a number of reasons for this:
> d) Viewable on any computer - Ever tried to open a really big PDF file > on a old computer? Isn't a Mac SE/30 old and isn't an Apple service manual big? No problem there. The screen rather than the computer is usually the limiting factor; my usual monitor is an A3 greyscale, ideal for viewing PDFs, currently attached to an LC475. It doesn't feel a lot different to a functionally identical screen attached to an SE/30. > k) I'm a professional - In an ideal world I would have been able to > make a living giving people music to play, but this world is far > from ideal. That b++++y site actually costs me a lot of money! What he said. Some of the requests I get from Internet freeloaders oughta be bronzed. My favourites are the ones who think I ought to spend a whole lot of money on document authoring software or server database integration so as to give information away for free in a way that suits them better. =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
