Well, I looked up those two tools and they appear to be linux only? Anyone know if there are windows versions of these tools? Seems like these tools basically do about the same thing as if I use the --png option with lilypond to produce a png file, except that the result is output in a pagenated PDF file. Obviously, it would be supremely better to have a single PDF file that displayed well on-screen and still retained all the line vector glory for optimal printing. My thoughts right now are that this is not possible with Lilypond because postscript encoding is built into the very heart of the way lilypond lays things out on the page. That is not neccessarily a bad thing, the print outs from Lilypond speak for themselves. However, I do think at this time, this is a limiting factor in producing vector-based PDF files. Probably the only real solutino is going to be to produce (if someone needs it), so seperate PDF's, one for printing and one for on-screen display..where the on-screen version either is based on the PNG, or some other utility such as already mentioned does the conversion to bitmap for me. It is unfortunate that the various PDF viewers I have tried do such a poor job of interpretting the vector graphics into 72dpi bitmaps on-screen... or ghostscript either it would appear (which is what limits Finale in the same way).
In the case of Oveture...the PDF's look great...and they appear to be vector based. The only diffierence I can surmise is that Oveture is not using postscript in its core..its using some form of vector graphics that is more transportable. However its also quite likely that the postscript language is more precise and flexible than whatever Overture is using, so I am confident that Oveture has limitations in what can be done, albeit, more consistently. I guess the ultimate in Lilypond would be if it had the option of producing the same vector data that Oveture and other non-postscript programs produce, for situations just like this one. In any case, back on topic..if anyone knows about those pdf2pdf tools that run on windows without cygwin, please let me know..otherwise I am probably giving up on this idea and will just crank out PNG files when I need to. I want to experiment with the Tex option someone suggested earlier also. Its possible that Tex is producing the generic vector data instead of postscript also. Daniel Johnson-2 wrote: > > ps2ps + ps2pdf results in a file that is about 5 times larger; the > Century Schoolbook glyphs appear bitmapped, with obvious jaggies when > you zoom in. But the line art appears to be marginally better, and the > Feta glyphs are as clear as ever. > > pdfopt does not improve any hinting in the originally-generated PDF. > > I don't think these are viable solutions. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/barline-problem-t1778120.html#a4872618 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User forum at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user