Marcello,
Try pdf tools at http://www.sheelapps.com. Does basic manipulations,
including, I think what you want, and it's free.
Hans Swinnen wrote:
Extracting parts from a .pdf is impossible AFAIK.
I see only two solutions:
1. scanning the pdf doc to an XML file and import this into a new
Funny, I was wondering the same thing about the tablet PCs where you
scribble on the screen. Any one use those (e.g., the Toshiba)?
Leigh Daniels wrote:
I use a Wacom Intuos 3 PTZ-630 with Finale and love it. It has
programmable buttons on each side of the tablet along with 2 ribbon
I have been a finale (FinWin) user since 3.7, and right now, although I
find the Sibelius discussion tempting, I do not plan on switching. I
have upgraded to 2008, and while I am not a heavy user (maybe an hour a
day), nor am I a professional engraver/musician/composer, I do
occasional work
I believe on the Mac it's a unix shell. type exit, all in lower
case, and press return.
Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Aug 17, 2007, at 8:06 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
If you don't have the disks, you can reboot your Mac, and hold down
the Apple and the S key, and that will dump you into the
Duh.
Guilty of not editing the message before hitting send.
You type exit to get out of the shell.
Bruce K H Kau wrote:
I believe on the Mac it's a unix shell. type exit, all in lower
case, and press return.
Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Aug 17, 2007, at 8:06 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
snip
I don't know about Mac, but on the PC platform, the limitation is that
Finale doesn't support Unicode. If that is the case with Mac, I have
found the following site
http://www.lillians.de/fonts.html
which has many fonts, including Kanji and the joined characters (e.g.,
kyu) in 8-bit
Bob Florence wrote:
Hi All,
It's been an interesting threat on the two programs.
snip
I like it. Wish I could make typos like that.
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Jari Williamson's web site can be really helpful as a starter. See
http://www.finaletips.nu/index.php
However, I notice that last update on the page is August 19, 2006. *sigh*
Steve Schow wrote:
Furtheremore, with
keyboard macros
and plugins, I can work so fast that I can't imagine Sibelius
This question has come up on the Finale list before, and the discussion
has always been interesting. My favorite answer was something like
Neither. I compose at the piano.
In a sense, I find this to be true for me, too. I generally try to work
out as much of my concept in my head - melodies,
I would also recommend PDF Creator (link in email below). It's easy to
install, and easy to use. The documentation also states it can create
.eps files, although I haven't tried this feature.
Sometimes, when I need to send the PDF and make sure that the PDF I send
is not dependent on fonts, I
I would recommend:
http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator
Available in several languages, and, it's open source, free, and works
really well.
Aaron Rabushka wrote:
I am preparing a score in Finale 2003 that needs to go to a .pdf file. How
do I do that?
Aaron J. Rabushka
[EMAIL
Indeed. You'd be surprised how many people in churches are uncomfortable
with a moment of silence for self-reflection. I once let it go for 30
*seconds* and people were getting real squirmy.
I happen to enjoy silence immensely.
Just so long as we don't bring up John Cage again :-)
I think you're catching on. This kind of humor is quite common on this
list. I think we're all a little punch drunk after staring at little
dots and lines. Besides, we shouldn't take ourselves too seriously. :-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not the 4 chord, silly; Intravenous (IV's, as in
I don't normally have very complex files to proof. I, too, find that I
have a very short proofing-attention-span. In addition to taking
frequent breaks in the proofing process, I have several ways of
proofing: by musical line (horizontally), by measure (vertically), by
element type (notes,
I believe that there is really is a upper/lower case arabic number set,
but it is not used as much these days, mostly because of the computer.
However, the only differences I recall is the 1 is 1/2 size, and looks
like a short capital I; the 0 looks like a lower case o, and the
9 was a
SPAM comes from SPiced hAM. Much as we make fun of it (here in
Hawai'i, too), it was a godsend for those who, during WWII, didn't
really have any other major source of protein. In Hawai'i, that was just
about everyone. That, according to legend, is where our taste for SPAM
comes from. (Vienna
It really requires 13 letters. In addition to the 12 latin letters (A E
H I K L M N O P U W) there is also a glottal-stop letter, usually
notated as an apostrophe, but it looks more like an opening single
quote. Some has estimated that the relative frequency of the glottal
stop in the language
Nowdays, you can get electrical tape in a variety of colors. Not that I
know why.
However, I've found that they're great for tagging microphone cables
going into a mixer. I just put the same combination of colors on each
end of the cable, and I then know which mic is plugged into which
I have XP home and our household prints to a networked printer (using a
linksys wireless print server). It wasn't pretty, as the printer is
technically a USB printer, so initial config was painful (long story,
more about stupidity and ignorance), but once I figured out, it works
just fine. I
Sorry. My bad, I may have quoted the original wrong, but Will didn't put
that silly remark.
Actually, I would have loved to have a good theory prof, but alas I was
not a music major and my knowledge is from friends, books, and this list.
I was just remarking on the spelling error. :-)
Will Denayer wrote:
Music Theory, maybe throughout history, is and was always a result of
analizing, ...
Ah, yes. I've always thought this was true.
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the characters?
Bruce K H Kau wrote:
I know this is an old thread. However, I have been searching the web,
and found some things that might be of interest. I found some
interesting 8-bit font sets at the following web address:
http://www.lillians.de/fonts.html
They appear to be reasonably
Another way is to actually change the measure to 6/4, and choose a
different time sig for display.
Choose the Time Signature tool.
Click on the first radio button under Measure Region to specify the
measures you want to change to 6/4.
Click on Options
Click on Use a Different Time Signature
following
this thread with interest even though I have nothing except banalities like
that to add to it.
On 11/28/06, Bruce K H Kau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've managed to get something that sorta works. Only thing, is one of
the characters is mapped to a dash/hyphen, so Finale thinks it is a word
I suppose everyone knows this by now, but:
http://news.com.com/Mozarts+entire+musical+score+now+free+on+Net/2100-1027_3-6142845.html
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's year-long 250th birthday party is ending on a
high note with the musical scores of his complete works available from
Monday for the
Another trick I use sometimes is to put a hidden rest before the first
note, and assign the verse numbers to the hidden rest. This allows you
to align the numbers and first lyric syllable separately.
Mark D Lew wrote:
On Dec 5, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Derek Kane wrote:
My problem is that I have
You also use Mass Mover, select the measures in question, and choose
Clear Items ...
Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 10:53 PM 11/30/2006, Will Denayer wrote:
Excuse me for asking, but can someone tell me how I can delete
expressions and hairpins?
Using the Selection Tool (the arrow at the left of
I've managed to get something that sorta works. Only thing, is one of
the characters is mapped to a dash/hyphen, so Finale thinks it is a word
separator. grrr. I have a work-around for that too, but it's not pretty.
I'm now thinking of looking for some simple font management software -
Finale would support unicode, though.
Many, many thanks for all the suggestions.
Christopher Smith wrote:
On Nov 23, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Bruce K H Kau wrote:
Since Finale doesn't support unicode (as far as I know), does anyone
have any advice or help on how I can include Japanese characters in my
.
A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Bruce K H Kau / 2006/11/25 / 03:16 AM wrote:
Hiragana and Katakana
remapped onto 7-bit ASCII (i.e., pre-unicode)
Not sure what this means. 7-bit ASCII is an encoding type. For
example, ISO2022-JP encoding uses 7-bit, while Microsoft CP931 uses 8-
bit, the first bit
, it became touch base, which I can't really make sense of,
even in the idea you note below. My really quick google seems to suggest
that the baseball origin is probably correct, but not definitive.
Mark D Lew wrote:
On Oct 17, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Bruce K H Kau wrote:
My favorite eggcorn, which
My favorite eggcorn, which I've never heard anywhere else, was from a
person who used to be in our marketing department. To say we needed to
stay in communication regarding an issue, she said we need to be on a
touch basis. Now, I've often heard people say we need to touch base
to mean we need
Thanks! This is a very clever solution.
Christopher Smith wrote:
snip
This solution might suck in different ways, but try opening the Edit
Lyrics window, select all, and set font size to fixed. Since I
routinely use around 85% reduction for my staves, this means that if I
previously had
Noel,
Thanks, that's a good point. I have experience a similar thing to what
you describe when I've installed other printers. And, as a matter of
fact, I did just install a new HP 1320 (double sided for $300!).
However, the problem appeared to be that my old brain was looking in the
wrong
I have finally just installed WinFin2007, and tomorrow I have to print
multiple copies of some music.
Whatever happened to the Number of Copies option in the print dialog
box? I tried print setup, which brings me to my standard printer dialog
setup box, and there is not copies option there,
The use of the article the in English is more idiomatic than many
would care to admit. Although it is often used to mean this specific
one as opposed to any ol' instance of this, its use can be quite
baffling, even to native speakers. The example that comes to mind is the
use of the before
Well, as a computer geek, I have to note:
Admiral Grace Hopper (grasshopper) who was a well-respected icon in
computing - she was instrumental in many computer advances, including
COBOL (trust me, it was an advance at the time).
Richard (Dick) Pick, inventor of the Pick Operating System. I
In choral music I've seen, it's been more or less a non-issue, since
each part has a separate staff (or at least a separate line on a staff -
stems up / stems down). The soloist is also broken out as a separate
staff. If the soloist is from a particular part (for example, a single
tenor from
You need to order a maintenance kit. For the larger printers, such as
the 5Si, you need to periodically replace some of the key components
which come as a kit. I forget the exact name, but you can special order
these things from places like CompUSA and on the web.
The 5Si will also have a
You might also want to try 7-zip (open source, free).
Works pretty well, not as good as Winzip, but great if you're on a
budget. :-)
I've used it for a long time, and have had few, if any, problems.
dc wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit:
I used to use Winzip
Winzip is indeed the standard PC
This somewhat related to Finale, and somewhat tangential. Below is a
link to an article I read in hard copy about yet another music format
using XML. It claims to incorporate, among other things, the MusicXML
that Recodare developed used in the Dolet plug-in.
From http://www.ims.org is the
People still use Ada?
Darcy James Argue wrote:
This will definitely be of interest to anyone interested in MusicXML,
manuscript-style music fonts, or Clinton Roemer's book, The Art of
Music Copying:
http://roemer.sourceforge.net/
- Darcy
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Bill,
The suggestions you've received are good ones - use separate layers and
force the stem direction.
I suspect you are being told how to layout the voices. If it were up to
me, however, given that the rhythmic patterns are not the same, I would
split it into four staves. Combining SA and
Enter a capital I (letter eye). Then change the font to Engraver
font set.
Christopher Smith wrote:
Hi all,
Sorry to bring this up again, but I can't find the thread where this was
discussed last year. I remember Mark D. Lew had some intelligent things
to say on the subject.
I thought
I think you left out the Cage effect:
Cage effect:
shirling neueweise wrote:
The Mozart Effect -- playing classical music to your children raises
their IQ -- has been pretty well debunked:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/february2/mozart-020205.html
A blogger considers,
What weight are you using now? I think I will have to re-look up the
conversion factors from European to American paper, but I believe 20
pound american is plenty heavy enough. I think I've even use 18 with
decent results. I don't think I've used A3 much (or 11x17 american). I
suspect with the
I remember the first song I wrote that people actually liked. It was in
the shower, too, and I ran out a la Archimides (I lived alone at the
time) into the living room and started plunking away on my guitar. Words
came almost automatically. Don't know how.
Subsequent to that, almost nothing
I believe W is the only polysyllabic letter in the English alphabet. I
have heard attempts (by internetters?) to call it a dub, but that
doesn't work for me. Personally, I would keep the letters as letters
except for W, which I would spell out as dou-ble U, to distiguish it
from the
My inclination is to put a cue line (smaller) for the flute (above the
voices) and the harp in regular size below the voices. I assume that
there is no piano? In that case, the harp score might fill that function
and be used as a rehearsal score for a piano. I am not that familiar
with harp
By the way, if you are on the PC platform, there is a very easy way to
install Ghostscript as a printer driver. Go to the site
http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index.htm
(available in Deutsch and English)
and download PDF Creator. It's a very easy install compared to setting
up
the beat chart for a measure, there should be handles for all the
notes.
Michael Cook
On 2 Apr, 2005, at 20:26, Bruce K H Kau wrote:
Listers,
Let me start by saying that my usual pattern for getting sheet music
out the door is usually rushed, and under tight deadlines. So, quite
often I just
I am a trackball fan; I would strongly recommend an optical over a
mechanical trackball, as the mechanical ones get dirty really fast.
Also, the rolling mechanism on mechanical trackballs tend to stick;
optical trackballs never have ths problem. I use a mechanical at work,
and an optical at
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suppose. By the way, I also think that the
ability to make the time sig be any character string in any font is a good
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