As for which is better, I would say that either way is fine and probably an equal amount of work. I would probably do it as you are doing it with one suggestion about the book which will be mostly songs with some text -- have you tried doing it all in Finale and using page-attached text blocks? I realize there aren't the automatic spacing algorithms in text blocks like you get in a word processing program, but you can do quite a bit and can eyeball the spacing issues to end up with very presentable text and music combinations.
I would suggest that you do a couple of songs with the accompanying text in Finale and see how difficult the layout will be.
As for creating the PDF file, while others use things like ghostscript and other freeware or shareware pdf-file creators, I have the full-blown Acrobat and it is easy to create pdf files with that.
doug wrote:
Not strictly a Finale question, but I imagine someone has done what I'm asking....
I'd like to create a couple of PDF e-books. One book would be an instructional type book having both text and images together (the images being music created in Finale), where as another would be more of a song book, having an introductory text followed by several songs (one Finale file per song) and possibly more text at the end.
For the first type, I've tried exporting a section of a score in Finale as a TIFF and then inserting it into MS Word (I don't have Pagemaker, though I'd be interested in all options). Is this how it's done? What DPI for something that will end up in a PDF? This book could have a *lot* of images, so I wonder how large a file I'll end up with. Also, with my first attempt, the staff was a bit smaller than I wanted, but I'm assuming that's a Word issue.
In the second case, is there a way to combine a word docs and separate Finale files into one PDF?
I guess what I'm asking is..."How do you make a PDF book that combines Word and Finale?"
Thanks...
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