On 22 Nov 2008 at 16:16, David W. Fenton wrote: > I think I'm going to use > SharpEye for now and see how bad the pastes are.
Well, it turns out the SharpEye trial allows you to scan multiple pages, so it seems it's going to work fairly well. However, I must say the user interface is completely abominable -- it looks like it was designed in 1993 and not updated since. And the image viewer is terrible, a floating window that has no menus but when maximized hides the parent window's menu (which has commands that act upon the image). And the selection tool is *awful* -- it starts with a useless selection (rather than all the page) and there is no SELECT ALL command. And the magnifications are very limited (25/50/100), so it's something of a pain to select what you want when working at low screen resolution. As it turns out, that wasn't necessary, as there's a batch import (why that is not the most prominent set of commands, I don't know), but that confused me, too, as I ended up with a SharpEye file for each page, but then also had an additional file with all the pages in one. I don't know why SharpEye littered my working folder with all those extra files, which appear to be working files only. So, I wasted some time in confusion, thinking it had ignored my filename. And the display was *very* confusing, in that pages 2-3 were displayed onscreen in Sharpeye as page 2, pages 3-4 as page 3 and so forth. I don't know why. Once I realized I hadn't imported pages twice, I exported to XML and imported into Finale, and it appears to be just fine. So, it works. But it's *very* frustrating application in terms of how badly designed it is. I'm simply not going to spend money on a program that is so hard to use, especially when, apparently, the new version of SSL in recent versions of Finale is good enough. But it did save me time for the current project, given that I don't *have* a recent version of SSL (and I don't recall if new versions of SSL import lyrics or not). -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
