Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-24 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Am 24.01.10 00:06, schrieb David W. Fenton: Also, using PDF-based scanning adds an extra step when you're scanning from hard copy, perhaps not a hard step, but still an extra step. I believe this is a misunderstanding of what PDFtoMusic will do: It cannot work with scanned images at all,

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-24 Thread Lawrence Yates
I've just tried to import a pdf into smartscore - it won't let me. It says that it can't import colour documents, even though the pdf is black an white (by that I mean that it has been printed to pdf as a black and white document, not just that there was no colour). It doesn't give me any options

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-24 Thread Lawrence Yates
Thanks Dennis, Maybe I'm misunderstanding what David wrote: I've had really great results importing PDFs downloaded from IMSLP using the SmartScore Lite that came with Finale 2003 (so, very outdated). Yes, it makes many layout and accidental mistakes, but not enough that it's worth it to

Re: [Finale] Finale spacing issue: F2009, OS X

2010-01-24 Thread Jari Williamsson
Matthew Hindson (gmail) wrote: In the linked image: http://imgur.com/Aux4V.png you will notice the bad spacing between notes 2 and 3. Apart from manually adjusting the third or second notes using the appropriate Special Tool, the normal Music Spacing options have no effect. Has anyone

Re: [Finale] Finale spacing issue: F2009, OS X

2010-01-24 Thread Eric Fiedler
Happens all the time with us (FinMac 2010). We generally solve the problem either by (a) using the Special tools note mover (a royal PITA), or (b) making the measure (or _all_ measures) a little wider using the Measure Tool or Spacing Tool, or (c) changing the Note Spacing values globally It

Re: [Finale] Multi-movement titles

2010-01-24 Thread Jari Williamsson
SN jef chippewa wrote: a separate category may be overkill, you can leave them in misc category and define the 1st title positioning and make copies... as they say YMMV. keeping them in the tempo markings category would make them automatically break a MM rest (it would in most cases happen

Re: [Finale] Finale spacing issue: F2009, OS X

2010-01-24 Thread Jari Williamsson
Eric Fiedler wrote: (c) changing the Note Spacing values globally Why not locally? Note spacing settings are only applied when respacing is done and if you turn off AMS you'll have full control over the spacing of the document. It's easy to build a few FinaleScripts to provide spacing for

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-24 Thread David W. Fenton
On 24 Jan 2010 at 10:17, Lawrence Yates wrote: I've just tried to import a pdf into smartscore - it won't let me. It says that it can't import colour documents, even though the pdf is black an white (by that I mean that it has been printed to pdf as a black and white document, not just that

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-24 Thread David W. Fenton
On 24 Jan 2010 at 11:41, dc wrote: Lawrence Yates écrit: Maybe I'm misunderstanding what David wrote: I've had really great results importing PDFs downloaded from IMSLP using the SmartScore Lite that came with Finale 2003 (so, very outdated). Yes, it makes many layout and accidental

RE: [Finale] Finale spacing issue: F2009, OS X

2010-01-24 Thread Lee Actor
Matthew Hindson (gmail) écrit: Has anyone else run into this? Avoid collision of notes and accidentals is checked in the Music Spacing options. The spacing is being applied to this particular part only, i.e. there are no other staves affecting the spacing. The other bars in the part

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-24 Thread Lawrence Yates
Right - thanks, it's the conversion to TIFF bit I was missing - I thought you saying that I could just import my pdf's from IMSLP directly into Smartscore. I've just spent most of the afternoon on this and got absolutely nowhere. The time would have been better spent typing the part into Finale

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-24 Thread David W. Fenton
On 24 Jan 2010 at 22:37, Lawrence Yates wrote: Right - thanks, it's the conversion to TIFF bit I was missing - I thought you saying that I could just import my pdf's from IMSLP directly into Smartscore. Nope. Smartscore requires graphics files as input, since it was designed for processing