Thanks for your reply, Christopher, and yes, I meant to say *three* flats
or E-flat.
I had already scanned the anthem into 300-dpi b/w tiffs using VueScan and
I was trying to get those into Mac Finale 2007. With the exception of four
or five accidentals per page, the anthem notes themselves do not need to
be moved...I just needed to replace the four sharps with three flats as a
visual reminder, the E-flat key signature, and lower the accidentals by a
half step. That has now been accomplished with the help of PhotoShop. :)
In the past (over a year ago), I've been able to open scanned tiffs in
Finale 2007. I could not remember how to do it this morning, so I went to
the Manual's Index and that's where I found the instruction to Go under
"File" and select Smartscore Lite. That should have opened a window to
allow me to add the tiffs....or so the manual said. I had already tried
importing the tiffs, but no luck.
You are right about the extra work that is required to get the scans into
a usable finished score, but I would like to know how you get your scans
into Finale. I've always gotten the scans in in the past...just not today.
So, if you have time (before I reinstall Finale 2007), let's keep this
going off list, and thanks in advance.
Thurletta Brown-Gavins
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 Christopher Smith responded to:
The music has been scanned into tiffs. The problem seems to be with
Finale 2007 itself. I'm running OS 10.4.11 and all the recent
updates. Can anyone help me figure out why SmartScore Lite seems to
have died and/or disappeared?
by writing:
Your question is not clear to me. What exactly are you choosing from
the File menu? I don't have Smartscore Lite directly in my file menu,
but I do have several ways of getting music in using scanning and
Smartscore Lite, including importing TIFFs. Has this method worked
for you in the past, or is this the first time for you? If things
just suddenly stopped working, you might have to re-install (this
happens sometimes!)
I have tried using the Smartscore for converting engraved parts for
transposition, and found it to be a major pain. There were so many
note errors and text items that I had to add that the additional
proofreading and editing required made it LONGER, not shorter, than
entering it all from zero. And that was once I got the scans down
perfectly and everything optimised for best reading! It was way worse
before!
Also, this is not really the point, but you know that putting into Ab
from E will raise it a major third? F or Eb would be closer to E,
which would be better for the singers if they have learned it in E.
Christopher
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