Re: printed bars thickness inconsistencies

[Shane Brandes]

On Ubuntu, for many versions now, the default pdf viower prints bar
lines at a double width. The application Okular, which I added, works
perfectly well. Sop it might be the PDF reader itself and not
lilypond.

Shane


On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:26 PM, James Lowe <address@hidden> wrote:
> hello,
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> From: address@hidden address@hidden on behalf of Jean-Alexis Montignies 
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> Sent: 17 July 2011 13:51
> To: lilypond-user
> Subject: printed bars thickness inconsistencies
>
> Hi All!
>
> I have since I use lilypond some problems when printing. Bars (standard ones) 
> are of different thickness.
>
> It happens on my printer (Xerox 5400) but no on some others so I first 
> thought it was a printer problem.
>
> What makes me think it could be a problem with generated pdf is:
> - it only happens with bars.
> - it happens if I print with Preview.app (the display on the screen is 
> correct) but not with acrobat reader (the print is correct with acrobat 
> reader).
> - the bars looks exactly the same wether I choose print definition of 300dpi 
> or 600dpi.
>
> What do you think. How to check this? To dip into the generated postscript? 
> (I think I'm not expert enough in postscript to pin point problems, may be 
> some smoothing/rounding issue)
>
> ----------------
>
> You could, but I have a feeling it is the PDF viewer application that is at 
> fault here.
>
> I have similar problems with Foxit vs Acrobrat where the 'hole' in the sharp 
> glyph is rounded  in Foxit but not in Acrobat (this was for Windows). If 
> Acrobat is correct then use that to print with and report the problem to 
> apple, I did the same with Foxit (Had no reply) but I gave them the PDF file 
> the comparative screenshots and the PS file that is generated.
>
> James
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