Hello Kim, It looks like Sibelius would bring in Acorn files until version 6. So if your friend can get a copy of an old version of Sibelius this might work.
>From http://www.sibelius.com/download/documentation/pdfs/sibelius6-upgrading-en.p df "Unless you need to use one of the small number of features that has been removed from Sibelius 6 (such as importing Finale, SCORE and Acorn Sibelius files)..." I've never tried it so I'm not sure how well it imports. Good luck. Steve 9/2/11 2:46 PM, "Kim Patrick Clow" <[email protected]> wrote: > Good day all: > > A non tech savy friend of mine started using music engraving many years ago > in the United Kingdom on the Acorn system, which eventually went out of > business. > > He has *hundreds of files* now that he can't open. There was a PC software > application that was an Acorn emulator, but the issue was it was such a > major hassle to generate PDFs (actually I think EPS files-- and the margins > had to be constantly changed, etc). > > Recently, he came across a Linux version of the Acorn program and the > install was pretty harrowing for him. > > I would think the best option would be to find an old Acorn system, and > somehow load the files and simply print them out. and scan them into either > Finale or Sibelius. > > Would anyone have suggestions or advice? > > > Thank you kindly > > Kim > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
