Eric wrote:
If you want to have a look, I've copied the test files here :
http://anamnese.online.fr/lastened/princess.gif and
http://anamnese.online.fr/lastened/princess.pdf
http://anamnese.online.fr/lastened/princess.ps
This seems to make my point exactly. I've put up a picture containing
Forgeot Eric wrote:
I don't really agree, even if you're right in some extends :
A gif file (I mean a partition) that looks cool on a browser with
16 colours is ci. 9 ko. The same in ps is 29 ko, but converted in
pdf it's only 11 ko (I've tried for a small tune).
Well, yes and no, Eric.
Laurie wrote:
One favourite trick of ink-jet printers is to develop a blocked
jet and this can do horrible things to horizontal lines of
staffs. You tend to notice them at gigs when you suddenly
realise the music is unreadable. Top or bottom lines are deadly,
but the in-between ones are
On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Phil Taylor wrote:
John Chambers wrote:
GIF is only used because browsers understand it.
No, it's used because it's the most efficient way of compressing a
black and white (or 256 colour) picture into a small file.
I wrote:
Eric wrote:
If you want to have a look, I've copied the test files here :
http://anamnese.online.fr/lastened/princess.gif and
http://anamnese.online.fr/lastened/princess.pdf
http://anamnese.online.fr/lastened/princess.ps
This seems to make my point exactly. I've put up a picture
Richard Robinson wrote:
The newer
PNG format is just as good, and free, but not yet as popular.
Why? For exactly one reason: browsers (the big one esp) were not
supporting png until recently. And since one must expect quite a few
users to still be using their 4.0 or 5.0 browsers
Rick == Rick Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rick For Linux, the latest Netscape I could get (the last time I
Rick checked) was 4.51 or something like that, and I don't think
Rick it does PNG yet.
I think it does; I think all Netscape 4.x does png. I'm
running 4.73, and it
Hi.
I am putting a tune I wrote into abc, and when I run it through abc2ps, then
look at it in Ghostview, the guitar chords and endings are either overlapping or
crowded. I thought I had seen something about increasing the space between
guitar chords and endings, but I can't find anything about
Laura Conrad wrote:
Rick == Rick Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rick For Linux, the latest Netscape I could get (the last time I
Rick checked) was 4.51 or something like that, and I don't think
Rick it does PNG yet.
I think it does; I think all Netscape 4.x does png. I'm
Yes - I am absolutely sure that it was not in the master copy because I made
a complete fool of myself telling him that he should have printed one copy
and photocpied it. He said that is what had been done. I said no way or
words to that effect and he said that as he had done it himself,
(ABC, GIF, and QuickTime formats)
Wouldn't pdf be a nice format? IMO better than gif.
You could offer both.
Given he's also providing the ABC, you can produce any format you like.
PDF is primarily a printing format. The user interface of Acrobat Reader
is appallingly clunky compared with
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