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uneven lines in preview and export.

I submitted this last year. This year I have a new computer with s3 verge video card and new monitor.
My resolution is 800 x600

Printing is fine, but any form of export, capture or driver produces a picture file with uneven staff lines.
Zooming way in will usually even it out. Printing from the affected program produces same bad results.

Happens in all programs.

The initial noteworthy screen is fine and so is the printing. Preview and any other rendition through clipboard or file is ill.

Submitted by: Paul on 08-Sep-1998

In Print Preview the staff lines reproduce unevenly. Some bleed together as one thick one. Changing resolution doesn't help.

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Reply 1 offered by: Andrew on 08-Sep-1998

This happens in many programs (MS Word, for example). Which resolutions did you use? Did zooming in resolve it?
Does it print okay regardless?

Re: uneven lines in preview and export.

Reply #1 –
This happens with a lot of programs. As long as zooming in fixes it,and it prints okay; it is something you have to live with, unless you want to go to the expense of getting acustom monitor which will display entire page at full resolution.

Re: uneven lines in preview and export.

Reply #2 –
This problem is called "aliasing", and the way around it is (appropriately enough) "anti-aliasing." I do my final preview edits using Ghostscript/GSview, which support anti-aliasing in its screen display (click Media --> Display Settings --> set Text Alpha and Graphic Alpha to 4 bits. While you're there, set your resolution; about 100 dpi would be the limit for 800x600). Here's how it works:

1: Install the "Applewriter Plus" Postscript driver on your computer (from the Windows installation disk), connect it to "File".

2: From within NWC (or whatever other application) print your files to this "virtual printer". It will create a .prn file wherever you specify. I suggest renaming it with a .ps extension for consistency with the rest of the world, though GSview will still open it with the .prn extension.

3: Open the file with GSview. You can use ALT-TAB to switch back and forth between NWC (or whatever) and GSview.

Make your changes, and re-print to the same file (overwriting the original one). GSview will detect if the file has been changed, and reload it. Note: if you get funny errors, just go back to page 1 (shortcut: press the G key).

HTH
Fred
 

Re: uneven lines in preview and export.

Reply #3 –
It is important to understand that the resolution of your display/monitor is probably vastly different from the resolution for your printer. When using NWC's File | Print Preview feature, you are viewing the printed music material converted to the resolution of your display. It is perfectly normal for some visible distortion to appear, since not all of the detail sent to the printer can be shown all at once on the monitor screen. As you zoom in, you start to view smaller sections of the printed page, and the added detail sent to the printer becomes "viewable" on the monitor.

When creating graphics from the meta-file data in NWC's File | Print Preview feature, you need to select your graphic's display resolution carefully. If you intend for it to be viewed on screen, it is better to target a roughly 72 dpi graphic resolution. If you intend to print the graphic, you should use the resolution of your target printer (common resolutions are 300 dpi and 600 dpi).

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