Actually, I'm the OP. But the 200 individual files is not my use case. If had that one I would probably go the pdf processing route too.
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Christopher Smith < [email protected]> wrote: > The OP has 200 individual songs to include in a book. That means 200 > titles, 200 lyricist/composer fields to enter and position, and possibly > copyright info or text boxes with instructions. > > The computer can put all the individual PDFs into one PDF file and number > them automatically, with no extra messing around with titles, etc. I’d > definitely go with combining PDFs. This is what the computer is for, for > sure. > > Christopher > > > > On Tue Dec 13, at TuesdayDec 13 1:44 PM, Robert Patterson < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > FWIW: > > > > If you make sure that both (all) file you are merging have the exact same > > staff list and staff properties, then Score Merger works pretty well. > This > > is likely if all the files came from the same template. Otherwise it may > > take some messing with. > > > > So far what I've found that it messes up is: > > > > 1. Lyric text gets mangled, but if each file has different > > verse/chorus/section numbers, you can recover pretty well using tools in > my > > plugin set. (I've added a plugin to make changing lyric numbers really > > easy.) > > 2. Staff baselines don't get transferred. I've added a plugin to do that. > > (You'll have to manually set the doc-level baselines to match.) > > 3. Staff styles are transferred incorrectly. I had to remove and reapply > > them on the merged score. > > 4. You may have to mess with staff groups. I've added some functions to > > help with that. (But if the groups match in all files there does not > appear > > to be a problem.) > > 5. You may have to edit with multipage headers like page numbers and > > measure number regions. > > > > Still, I've managed to do it with results I am happy with. ymmv > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 7:24 AM, Robert Patterson < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Because collating and processing are what computers are for. I'd rather > >> spend my time writing a program to massage the files than constantly > >> collating and processing by hand. Which is what I've done. > >> > >> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 1:41 AM, Steve Parker <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Robert, > >>> > >>>> On 12 Dec 2016, at 20:24, Robert Patterson < > [email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> I refuse to do post processing with a pdf editor. I would be willing > to > >>>> simply combine pdf's output by Finale, but any further post-processing > >>> than > >>>> that is unacceptable to me. > >>> > >>> Not to start one… but why? > >>> I’ve always collated these kind of things outside Finale. > >>> > >>> Steve P. > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Finale mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > >>> > >>> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > >>> [email protected] > >>> > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
