on 6/11/03 2:06 PM, Richard Huggins wrote: > I am playing at a reading session of piano music in a couple of weeks and > the meeting coordinator said something in a recent e-mail about scanning the > selections that will be played and putting them into Powerpoint for members > of the audience to watch as they are played. > > I know nothing about how Powerpoint works, so can someone tell me if it > would be possible to directly import Finale files into Powerpoint, no > scanning needed? I presume a complete page of music would not fit onto the > projetion screen AND be legible from a distance (perhaps depending on the > screen?), so could, say, half-pages be captured for individual slides, using > the graphics tool perhaps?
You can export selections using the Graphics Tool into TIFF format, which PowerPoint can import nicely. Just choose the Graphics Tool, double-click-and-drag a selection, and choose Graphics > Export Selection... Choose TIFF as the format into which you will export, and choose the resolution down at the bottom. 72 is too coarse; I usually pick 150 for inserting bits of Finale documents into papers I write in Word. However, since you'll be magnifying it greatly by putting it up on a screen, you may want to get an even higher resolution. >From PowerPoint, just go to Insert > Picture > From File... and find the TIFF you've exported. I'm not certain that that's the correct path to insert, but I'm sure you can figure it out if it's not. Hope it goes well! ------------- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
