For PDFs, Mac OSX has a built-in Print to PDF feature that works
well. For Windows there are free virtual printers around that also
work pretty well. I remember using one that had Pony in the name
(sorry to be so vague).
On Dec 8, 2008, at 9:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
New to ther Lute list, and just acquired a Renaissance lute and had
a wonderful lesson with
Ed Martin last Thursday.
I have been typesetting and transcribing music in Finale since 2000.
I just acquired and registered Fronimo last night.
What I am seeing in this thread are pleas for BOTH standardization
AND maleability,
and I totally understand the need for both.
With many high end graphics and typesetting / notation programs,
the developers do their
best to keep their file types proprietary. This allows them to earn
a living from selling their
programs. The down-side is that is limits the ability of the user
to share files with
colleagues, unless their colleagues have also bought the same
expensive program. Add to
this that if I haven't "upgraded" (i.e. sent another ton of money to
the developer) my Finale
program, I won't be able to open files from a colleague who has and
sends me their newer
version. It's a frustrating racket that thwarts maleability.
I would like to see more cooperation amongst developers in this
regard. I realize that for
somebody writing a notation program in their spare time this could
be a time consuming
thing (nightmare?), but wouldn't it be nice if one could "import",
for example, a Fronimo file
into Finale, or vice versa? Or at least be able to change the
formatting of a file to suit your
taste without having to start entering every character from the
beginning?
One feature in Finale that I find very useful is you can import a
MIDI file and it will notate it
automatically (errors, of course, but much quicker than starting
from scratch).
This is a feature I would like to see built into Fronimo.
Finale probably wouldn't even talk to Francesco, but perhaps other
Lute Tablature
developers could work together on sharing file types?
All that said, the best way to share printed music on the web that
I have found so far is
PDF. PDFs are not alterable, but they sure are handy.
Unfortunately, to MAKE PDFs it
usually requires that one has bought the full version of Adobe
Acrobat (not cheap), which
incorporates a "printer" called the "Acrobat Distiller". One must
use this feature in order to
embed fonts like Fronimo Pavan, that other users may not have in
their computers.
Otherwise the end user sees gobbletygook. (I actually got Spiders
once!) One can make
scans into PDFs also (I do this by importing the scanned image into
a graphics program like
CorelDraw, then printing to the Distiller), but to get good
resolution the scan needs to be at
least 300 - 400 dpi and the Distiller PDF settings should be 1200
dpi. Otherwise the end
user cannot enlarge it for their older eyes without it being blurry.
Anyway, I think whatever software develpoers could do to allow
their users to share files
would be a benefit.
Tom
Tom Draughon
Heartistry Music
http://www.heartistry.com/artists/tom.html
714 9th Avenue West
Ashland, WI 54806
715-682-9362
On 8 Dec 2008 at 9:50, howard posner wrote:
On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Peter Nightingale wrote:
See Feynman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EZcpTTjjXY
Fascinating, captain. A prominent scientist offering two minutes of
meaningless generalities without a single fact. Completely
illogical.
Yours truly.
Mr. Spock
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Heartistry Music
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714 9th Avenue West
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