PDF export converts music font to raster

• May 8, 2015 - 11:26
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore

Steps:
1- Open a score; insert notes and articulations (for example);
2- Export as pdf.

Result:
- The music font (Emmentaler, for example) is not embedded in the pdf;
- All symbols from the music font (e.g. noteheads, articulations, et cetera) are converted to bitmap images. See attached image.

[The situation is even worse (lower resolution bitmaps) when using a pdf printer]

Windows 8.1, commit efc6bcc

Attachment Size
pdfexport.png 14.8 KB

Comments

• May 8, 2015 - 12:08

This also makes the files about 2.5 times bigger (a one page score grew from 35k to 87k)
And much larger when using a PDF printer (in this example 1M, using CC PDF Printer)

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• May 8, 2015 - 15:53

My understanding is that this commit is a quick patch to let the user choose the resolution of the pixmap in the PDF file. But the root problem still exists, the musical symbols are now raster and the musical fonts are not saved in the PDF file.
Also the same root problem causes the musical symbol to be exported as raster in SVG file too.

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