On Friday, 2 April 1999, John Galbraith & writes:
> I have a 1200 dpi printer and would like to print lilypond output at
> maximum quality. Right now, it doesn't look like I am getting maximum
> resolution. The fonts look pretty good (I think they are rendered at
> 600 dpi, from looking at the metafont messages) but the crescendos are
You should change the default in your tex setup. If you have tetex,
you'd run 'texconfig' and change the default 'MODE'.
> clearly rendered at much less than 600 dpi. Long ones, in particular,
> are obviously "quantized". I know that in order to get 1200 dpi
That's strange. Crescendos, like all other variable sized symbols,
are drawn in plain postscript.
Because of the unfortunate shape of the crescendo symbol, it may just
seem to be at a lower resolution. Can you determine the resolution,
it should be easy: count the steps and measure the height.
> performance, the fonts have to be created at 1200 dpi, and the
> crescendos resolution must be increased. Is this a configuration
> issue of tex, metafont, or lilypond? Maybe it is the printer setup?
Does the printer have some kind of resolution enhancement that you can
switch on?
Good luck,
Jan.
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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