Will Denayer wrote:
Hello All,
I received the Hawkes Pocket Score from Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra which I
bought at Amazon. The score looks fine but the print is so small that I can
hardly read it. This is probably not going to work, but I was thinking that it
should be possible to scan it into Finale - or just scan it so that it is a
PDF-file (?). I think it will be a lot of trouble because it is 147 pages. Do
you think it's worth the try or should I just photocopy the thing to a larger
size? Best wishes for the new year to all, Will
I have purchased some manuscripts on microfilm for personal study.
These are standard 35 mm microfilms, and I use them by scanning the
images on my older "true 1200 dpi" Epson scanner. I lay the film across
the glass of the flatbed, scan the images visible at 1200 dpi, and save
them as ~.tif files. When I want to view an image, I change the dpi
from 1200 to a different figure, and the images are a workable size.
The only reason I can think of that this would not work with your pocket
score, is binding. If your score is perfect bound (which I think is the
term used in the bookbinding trade in the U.S.), it will lay flat, and
you will have problems with this method. In that case you will need to
disbind the book. Even if your volume is not perfect bound, the process
will not be good for the binding, and depending upon how valuable the
book itself is, you may or may not want to proceed with scanning it, but
the same considerations apply to photocopying, on most machines I've seen.
I should note, at least for sake of completeness, that there are both
photocopiers and scanners,designed with the glass all the way to the
edge, and a slanted side on the edge at the glass, like this
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which seem to be principally intended for use in libraries. I've seen a
scanner like this produced by Epson, and a photocopier produced by
Xerox, so it might be worth calling around to see if a nearby library
has a this type of equipment, and what it would cost to use it to scan
your book.
ns
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