Re: [Finale] Staff line thickness

2004-01-02 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 02.01.2004 14:45 Uhr, d. collins wrote > Johannes Gebauer écrit: >> I use 2.25 EVPUs and double that for ledger lines. Line Thickness in PDFs >> depend on the distiller. If you are using Ghostscript than use version 8 or >> higher, it seems to have the most accurate line thickness translation,

Re: [Finale] Staff line thickness

2004-01-02 Thread Daniel Dorff
> My own printer is a 300 dpi non-postscript laser printer, 14 years old. > That's why I don't know if I can trust it enough to use my eye. Yes, but whatever is the final printer for your work is where it has to look good. If you're using 300dpi for the final product, you would experiment to see

Re: [Finale] Staff line thickness

2004-01-02 Thread Johannes Gebauer
I use 2.25 EVPUs and double that for ledger lines. Line Thickness in PDFs depend on the distiller. If you are using Ghostscript than use version 8 or higher, it seems to have the most accurate line thickness translation, in earlier versions lines tended to be thinner from my experience. I don't th

Re: [Finale] Staff line thickness

2004-01-02 Thread Daniel Dorff
It would also possibly matter whether you're printing to a 600dpi laser or a 1200dpi laser or something else. I find it takes different settings when I print at home on an HP4MP and in the office on an HP5000. The real answer though is to use your eye rather than to count on raw numbers, and alwa