Now THAT is something Coda should have indicated in the text accompanying the comparison! Right there they would have a legitimate marketing edge that they shouldn't have any compunction about pointing out! And it is a VERY significant inability on the part of photoscore, enough that I don't think many people who knew about it would ever look at it seriously at all for anything other than lead-sheets.
Tyler Turner wrote: > At > http://www.sibelius.com/products/photoscore/professional.html it says > PhotoScore lite will not handle more than one voice. > > -Tyler > > "David H. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I read that line, also. I still think it is unfair to compare apples to > oranges -- maybe the other software does a much better job using a b&w, > line-art tiff file. > > When comparing scanning programs, in my opinion, the SAME image file > should be used for all programs being compared. If the other program > suggests gray-scale images, then Finale should compare them both first > with the same b/w, line-art tiff then compare them both with the same > gray-scale tiff image. > > Perhaps the other scanning program wouldn't have lost that second voice > if it had only dealt with 2-bit depth instead of 8-bit or 16-bit. We'll > never know. > > I realize it isn't Coda's responsibility, in any legal sense, to run a > fair and accurate comparison, but I would think they would feel they > owe > it to us to run a comparison that truly compares capabilities, not just > suggested preferences. Heck, perhaps the competitor would have even > more mistakes, making Finale's scanning capability look even better! > But perhaps they decided to stick with the competitor's suggested file > format because they knew that the competitor would scan with NO errors > if fed the same b/w tiff file. We'll never know, and the cynic in me > figures there has to be a reason for it. > > And I still think it is a skewed comparison. I also don't think 5 > errors in a 12-fame, perfect original is anything to be bragging about > -- there should be ZERO errors given such a perfect original! > > I agree, music scanning has a L O N G way to go, and I wish Finale > would > stop trying to push it as a selling point because it simply frustrates > the hell out of new users who buy it specifically for that feature, and > then go around bad-mouthing an otherwise outstanding product. Negative > advertising is worse than NO advertising, in my mind! Apparently not in > Coda's, though. > > > > Aaron Sherber wrote: > > > At 07:01 AM 06/01/02, David H. Bailey wrote: > > >They have supposedly improved the scanning ability (I'll believe > that > > >when I see it!) but in reading their "impartial" comparison, > they admit > > >they skewed the results -- they used b/w line art for the scan > that they > > >fed to the finale scanning module but they used a gray-scale > scale for > > >the scan they fed to the competition. > > > > Well, I have no faith in this OCR stuff anyway, but they did also > point > > out that the other software gave gray-scale as its preferred image > > format. In other words, they were only following the instructions > given > > and were not intentionally feeding the other program a bad image. > > > > Aaron. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > > -- > David H. Bailey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! <http://rd.yahoo.com/welcome/*http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com> - > Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
