On 24 Jan 2010 at 22:37, Lawrence Yates wrote: > Right - thanks, it's the conversion to TIFF bit I was missing - I thought > you saying that I could just import my pdf's from IMSLP directly into > Smartscore.
Nope. Smartscore requires graphics files as input, since it was designed for processing scanned images. > I've just spent most of the afternoon on this and got absolutely nowhere. > The time would have been better spent typing the part into Finale by hand. > > I've downloaded a pdf file from IMSLP, printed it to a new file using > PDF995. I've downloaded PDF995Edit and clicked on the "convert last printed > document" after setting the output option to Tif12nc (which means absolutely > nothing to me - there is also Tif24nc and Tifg4, also meaningless to me.) > This seems to fail - it produces a file - "temp001" which does not seem to > contain an image. I always use PNG256. Smartscore can handle it, and it's a very efficient format (it's like a modern GIF format, and without the licensing issues that come with GIF format). > When I try to import this into Finale, I get exactly the same message I got > when I first started this about six hours ago - it tells me I'm trying to > import a colour file, which I'm not (as far as I know) Did you open the TIFFs in your graphics editor and convert them to grayscale before feeding them to Smartscore Lite? -- 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
