Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic
Thanks to all who advised me on this--but I've just discovered that the ability to convert a pdf page into a PICT is built right into Preview! D'oh! My only comfort is that noone else on this list seemed to know that either... --Andrew Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ The chief cause of problems is solutions. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic
Hi Andrew, Actually, Andrew, Hiro told you about that feature in Preview shortly after you asked your original question: On 28 Dec 2009, at 11:03 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: I wasn't following the thread, but if you just want to convert PDF to bitmap: Preview.app - SaveAs I would have told you too, but Hiro beat me to it. I gather you missed his response! Anyway, I'm glad you figured it out eventually. For future reference, Preview can also convert EPS to PDF, which might also be useful to you at some point. Cheers, - DJA - WEB: http://secretsociety.typepad.com On 31 Dec 2009, at 11:05 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: Thanks to all who advised me on this--but I've just discovered that the ability to convert a pdf page into a PICT is built right into Preview! D'oh! My only comfort is that noone else on this list seemed to know that either... --Andrew Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ The chief cause of problems is solutions. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic
On Dec 29, 2009, at 4:08 PM, George Brooke wrote: Are your pdf pages in separate files or all in one big file? If they are all in one file with pages in the correct order (page 1, page 2, page 3, etc) then Acrobat Reader can print a booklet. It is an option in the Page Scaling drop down. Page Scaling dropdown? Where? I don't see it. --Andrew Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ Ignorance is infinite. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
RE: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic
Acrobat Reader 9 has this Print Dialog box: http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/AcroReader-print.jpg -Original Message- From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Andrew Stiller Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 3:05 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic On Dec 29, 2009, at 4:08 PM, George Brooke wrote: Are your pdf pages in separate files or all in one big file? If they are all in one file with pages in the correct order (page 1, page 2, page 3, etc) then Acrobat Reader can print a booklet. It is an option in the Page Scaling drop down. Page Scaling dropdown? Where? I don't see it. --Andrew Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ Ignorance is infinite. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
RE: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic
Andrew, As I recall you're on a Mac. I use both Windows (laptop provided by employer) and Mac. Running Snow Leopard and Adobe Reader 9.2.0, in the center of the print dialog is Page Scaling with a drop down list of choices: None, Fit to Printable Area, Shrink to Printable Area, Multiple pages per sheet, Booklet Printing. George -Original Message- From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Andrew Stiller Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 5:05 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic On Dec 29, 2009, at 4:08 PM, George Brooke wrote: Are your pdf pages in separate files or all in one big file? If they are all in one file with pages in the correct order (page 1, page 2, page 3, etc) then Acrobat Reader can print a booklet. It is an option in the Page Scaling drop down. Page Scaling dropdown? Where? I don't see it. --Andrew Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ Ignorance is infinite. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic
On Dec 28, 2009, at 3:44 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I'm with Dennis that it's better to try to get Finale to print the desired final result, since that means you don't have to futz with a separate graphics editing/PDF construction step. The problem is at base a Sibelius--Finale one. The composer whose work I want to publish uses Sibelius, and he's been sending me pdfs which I can then print out for publication purposes. The problem is with the extracted parts: I need to be able to print them in booklet order, and that can't be done from Preview or Acrobat Reader. This could in theory be solved either of two ways: either by me importing the pdf pages into Finale and then print out in booklet order (2-up and duplexed on 11x17 paper) from Finale, or by having the composer create a pdf that is already in booklet order so that I could print it straight from Preview in the normal way. Last I looked, Sibelius could only print booklets by printing one set of pages and then refeeding them into the printer for a second pass. Do recent states of the program provide for single-pass print out (to pdf)? Any other suggestions? --And please don't recommend Dolet; the conversion is too lossy. --Andrew Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic
If you are not on OS X 10.6, use CocoaBooklet: http://www.iconus.ch/fabien/products/cbeng/cbeng.html If you are on OS X 10.6, use Create Booklet: http://web.mac.com/vogelbusch/Site/Programs/Einträge/2009/7/22_Create_Booklet_1.1_support_Snow_Leopard.html Cheers, - DJA - WEB: http://secretsociety.typepad.com On 29 Dec 2009, at 11:56 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: The problem is at base a Sibelius--Finale one. The composer whose work I want to publish uses Sibelius, and he's been sending me pdfs which I can then print out for publication purposes. The problem is with the extracted parts: I need to be able to print them in booklet order, and that can't be done from Preview or Acrobat Reader. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic
Andrew Stiller wrote: The problem is at base a Sibelius--Finale one. The composer whose work I want to publish uses Sibelius, and he's been sending me pdfs which I can then print out for publication purposes. The problem is with the extracted parts: I need to be able to print them in booklet order, and that can't be done from Preview or Acrobat Reader. This could in theory be solved either of two ways: either by me importing the pdf pages into Finale and then print out in booklet order (2-up and duplexed on 11x17 paper) from Finale, or by having the composer create a pdf that is already in booklet order so that I could print it straight from Preview in the normal way. Last I looked, Sibelius could only print booklets by printing one set of pages and then refeeding them into the printer for a second pass. Do recent states of the program provide for single-pass print out (to pdf)? Any other suggestions? CocoaBooklet is a great, free app that will do what you want. It doesn't work on Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6+) but I seem to recall that you aren't on that OS. All you do is take your letter sized pdf file and drop it onto CocoaBooklet and it will make a new pdf that is properly formatted for center-stapled booklets in tabloid size. (You can change those size parameters in the preferences.) http://www.iconus.ch/fabien/products/cbeng/cbeng.html Alternatively, you can try adding this free service to your Mac, and this one works in Snow Leopard: http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Word-Processing/Create-Booklet-PDF-Service.shtml -Randolph Peters ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
RE: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic
Are your pdf pages in separate files or all in one big file? If they are all in one file with pages in the correct order (page 1, page 2, page 3, etc) then Acrobat Reader can print a booklet. It is an option in the Page Scaling drop down. George Brooke House of Hope Lutheran Church New Hope, MN -Original Message- From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Andrew Stiller Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 1:56 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic On Dec 28, 2009, at 3:44 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I'm with Dennis that it's better to try to get Finale to print the desired final result, since that means you don't have to futz with a separate graphics editing/PDF construction step. The problem is at base a Sibelius--Finale one. The composer whose work I want to publish uses Sibelius, and he's been sending me pdfs which I can then print out for publication purposes. The problem is with the extracted parts: I need to be able to print them in booklet order, and that can't be done from Preview or Acrobat Reader. This could in theory be solved either of two ways: either by me importing the pdf pages into Finale and then print out in booklet order (2-up and duplexed on 11x17 paper) from Finale, or by having the composer create a pdf that is already in booklet order so that I could print it straight from Preview in the normal way. Last I looked, Sibelius could only print booklets by printing one set of pages and then refeeding them into the printer for a second pass. Do recent states of the program provide for single-pass print out (to pdf)? Any other suggestions? --And please don't recommend Dolet; the conversion is too lossy. --Andrew Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic (was: copying exprs)
On 2009/12/28, at 13:45, Andrew Stiller wrote: How? In Mac OS9 there was a wonderful little freeware utility called Print2Pict that would make a pict (or TIFF or GIF) out of a pdf file or anything else, but I know of nothing equivalent under OSX. I now find myself in need of importing whole pdf pages into Finale as graphics, and I sure would like to be able to do that without rebooting in System 9 each time I want to make one of these... I wasn't following the thread, but if you just want to convert PDF to bitmap: Preview.app - SaveAs -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pearflamesearch_type=aq=f ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic
On 12/28/2009 1:45 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: How? In Mac OS9 there was a wonderful little freeware utility called Print2Pict that would make a pict (or TIFF or GIF) out of a pdf file or anything else, but I know of nothing equivalent under OSX. I now find myself in need of importing whole pdf pages into Finale as graphics, and I sure would like to be able to do that without rebooting in System 9 each time I want to make one of these... I wasn't following the whole thread either, but the full version of Acrobat can save a PDF as a TIFF. You could also open the PDF in Illustrator and save as a TIFF. Of course, Hiro's suggestion is free for Mac. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic
Andrew Stiller wrote: On Dec 27, 2009, at 7:21 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: ..., these are all being created as PDFs for them to print. ... Export the pages as graphics, Sorry I was not clear; in my response to Dennis, I was proposing exporting the native Finale pages to ~.tif files, not converting ~.pdf files to ~.tif files. ns ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic
On 28 Dec 2009 at 14:30, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Andrew Stiller wrote: On Dec 27, 2009, at 7:21 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: ..., these are all being created as PDFs for them to print. ... Export the pages as graphics, Sorry I was not clear; in my response to Dennis, I was proposing exporting the native Finale pages to ~.tif files, not converting ~.pdf files to ~.tif files. Do recent versions of Finale allow export to more web-friendly and/or more efficient formats? PNG would be ideal. You'd still have the difficulty of creating the PDFs from the exported graphics. I'm with Dennis that it's better to try to get Finale to print the desired final result, since that means you don't have to futz with a separate graphics editing/PDF construction step. -- David W. Fentonhttp://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic
On 28 Dec 2009, at 21:44, David W. Fenton wrote: Do recent versions of Finale allow export to more web-friendly and/or more efficient formats? PNG would be ideal. Finale 2010 for Mac exports EPS, JPEG, PICT PNG and TIFF files. Michael ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic
On 28 Dec 2009 at 22:07, Florence + Michael wrote: On 28 Dec 2009, at 21:44, David W. Fenton wrote: Do recent versions of Finale allow export to more web-friendly and/or more efficient formats? PNG would be ideal. Finale 2010 for Mac exports EPS, JPEG, PICT PNG and TIFF files. The additions there are PNG and JPG, no? JPG is not a proper format for printed output of scores, since it's lossy compression. -- David W. Fentonhttp://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
