Thanks, but I think he has old Acorn files, not the Acorn version of Sibelius, which the Finn brothers wrote ;)
Kim On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Fiskum, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
