Hi Alexander, >>And long slur (and generally any line at low angle) will be jagged on >>priners with less than 600 dpi resolution, regardless of its bitmapped >>or vector nature. This is a fact. > > Yes, this is very annoyning, sometimes they are broken not only on the > screen but also on the print. > > I was just surprised that a postscript _program_ which draws bezier curves would result > in that stepwise look both on the screen and on the print.
Please distinguish between the terms "stepwise" and "jagged" - the problem is not that the slurs are composed from straight lines (in fact they are, but the difference is far below pixel size), but that they have to be rendered in a discrete matrix of square pixels. AFAIK no PS or PDF displayer does antialiasing of lines and curves. If you look at PDFs created from Finale, Sibelius, Score or any other high-end program, you will still see the same jagged pixelated slurs. BTW, why is the screen of so importance? Do you know any musician playing from the computer screen? :-) > Another question: why isn't it possible to make it work with Yap (or > xdvi). I see that Yap desperately tries to interpret psslur.pro but > fails somewhere. We all know that Yap and xdvi can display ps pictures, why > it's not possible for the slurs? These viewers try to interpret \special commands and look for EPS images referenced by them. Slurs and crescendos are not EPS images - they are simply PS commands embedded into the final PS file. There is no way to understand the commands other than to interpret the whole file. Stanislav. _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
