Thanks Nancy, Rocky, and Jose for your helpful suggestions. When I "re-PDF" a graphics file that I imported a PDF to is when things get fuzzy - even in printing! So, I tried saving PDF as a TIFF and this looks awful on-screen but seems to print OK. Haven't tried making a PDF out of that, yet. I am also a Finale user, and I usually just export a TIFF graphics file at 600dpi. These work well, but I want the diamond-shaped noteheads, etc. like Fronimo can provide, and I don't know of a way to do this convincingly in Finale. Is there a font for Finale that will do this? Thanks, Tom > I use InDesign a lot and one of the problems with bringing any pdf > into it is that what you see on the screen is quite fuzzy. It > always prints out beautifully, but it's sometimes hard to add > things on top of the pdf because of the lack of resultion. I have > done the imports from Fronimo into Photshop and you can see the > result in 2 of the LSA's past Quarterlies: the songs by Ed Durbrow > about a year ago and more recently the theorbo music that > accompanied Francesca Torelli's article. Nancy > > You might try printing to PDF and importing them into Quark (at > least it works for InDesign). Still, I have had some issues with > that, and worked around them by generating a PDF from my original > program (Finale), then opening that in a Photoshop-type program > (with a 600 or 1200 ppi resolution) to convert it to a bitmap > TIFF file which imports fine into page layout programs. -- R On > May 16, 2012, at 10:05 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > I want to import a Fronimo .ft3 file into a graphics program > such > as > QuarkExpress or CorelDraw (I am a registered user of all 3 > programs). > I have tried printing .eps to a generic postscript printer, but > no success. PDF files look "fuzzy". > Is there any way to generate .eps or .tiff or any other > graphics format > in Fronimo ? > Thanks, > Tom > To get on or off this list see list information at > [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > Nancy Carlin Associates > P.O. Box 6499 > Concord, CA 94524 USA > phone 925/686-5800 fax 925/680-2582 > web sites - [2]www.nancycarlinassociates.com > [3]www.groundsanddivisions.info > Representing: > FROM WALES - Crasdant & Carreg Lafar, FROM ENGLAND - Jez Lowe & > Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies, and now representing EARLY MUSIC - The > Venere Lute Quartet, The Good Pennyworths & Morrongiello & Young > Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA web site - > [4]http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org -- > > References > > 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > 2. http://www.nancycarlinassociates.com/ > 3. http://www.groundsanddivisions.info/ > 4. http://lutesocietyofamerica.org/ >
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