Hit Reply instead of Reply All... -----Original Message----- From: Guy Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 1:02 PM To: 'Doc Rossi' Subject: RE: [LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines
Word 2007 has a Save to PDF feature (introduced with that version, I think). Never tried it, though. Guy -----Original Message----- From: Doc Rossi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 12:39 PM To: List LUTELIST Subject: [LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines For PDFs, Mac OSX has a built-in Print to PDF feature that works well. For Windows there are free virtual printers around that also work pretty well. I remember using one that had Pony in the name (sorry to be so vague). On Dec 8, 2008, at 9:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > New to ther Lute list, and just acquired a Renaissance lute and had > a wonderful lesson with > Ed Martin last Thursday. > I have been typesetting and transcribing music in Finale since 2000. > I just acquired and registered Fronimo last night. > What I am seeing in this thread are pleas for BOTH standardization > AND maleability, > and I totally understand the need for both. > With many high end graphics and typesetting / notation programs, > the developers do their > best to keep their file types proprietary. This allows them to earn > a living from selling their > programs. The down-side is that is limits the ability of the user > to share files with > colleagues, unless their colleagues have also bought the same > expensive program. Add to > this that if I haven't "upgraded" (i.e. sent another ton of money to > the developer) my Finale > program, I won't be able to open files from a colleague who has and > sends me their newer > version. It's a frustrating racket that thwarts maleability. > I would like to see more cooperation amongst developers in this > regard. I realize that for > somebody writing a notation program in their spare time this could > be a time consuming > thing (nightmare?), but wouldn't it be nice if one could "import", > for example, a Fronimo file > into Finale, or vice versa? Or at least be able to change the > formatting of a file to suit your > taste without having to start entering every character from the > beginning? > One feature in Finale that I find very useful is you can import a > MIDI file and it will notate it > automatically (errors, of course, but much quicker than starting > from scratch). > This is a feature I would like to see built into Fronimo. > Finale probably wouldn't even talk to Francesco, but perhaps other > Lute Tablature > developers could work together on sharing file types? > All that said, the best way to share printed music on the web that > I have found so far is > PDF. PDFs are not alterable, but they sure are handy. > Unfortunately, to MAKE PDFs it > usually requires that one has bought the full version of Adobe > Acrobat (not cheap), which > incorporates a "printer" called the "Acrobat Distiller". One must > use this feature in order to > embed fonts like Fronimo Pavan, that other users may not have in > their computers. > Otherwise the end user sees gobbletygook. (I actually got Spiders > once!) One can make > scans into PDFs also (I do this by importing the scanned image into > a graphics program like > CorelDraw, then printing to the Distiller), but to get good > resolution the scan needs to be at > least 300 - 400 dpi and the Distiller PDF settings should be 1200 > dpi. Otherwise the end > user cannot enlarge it for their older eyes without it being blurry. > Anyway, I think whatever software develpoers could do to allow > their users to share files > would be a benefit. > Tom > Tom Draughon > Heartistry Music > http://www.heartistry.com/artists/tom.html > 714 9th Avenue West > Ashland, WI 54806 > 715-682-9362 > > On 8 Dec 2008 at 9:50, howard posner wrote: >> On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Peter Nightingale wrote: >> >>> >>> See Feynman: >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EZcpTTjjXY >>> >> >> Fascinating, captain. A prominent scientist offering two minutes of >> meaningless generalities without a single fact. Completely >> illogical. >> >> Yours truly. >> >> Mr. Spock >> -- >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG. >> Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.9.13/1826 - Release Date: >> 12/3/2008 9:34 AM >> > > > Tom Draughon > Heartistry Music > http://www.heartistry.com/artists/tom.html > 714 9th Avenue West > Ashland, WI 54806 > 715-682-9362 > >
