>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>On Behalf Of David W. Fenton
>Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:29 PM
>To: finale@shsu.edu
>Subject: RE: [Finale] SmartScore Lite Problem
>
>On 18 Nov 2008 at 9:52, Richard Yates wrote:
>
>> I do not have pdftomusic pro but from what I read at its 
>site, it will 
>> not be helpful with many of the pdf scores that you download. Its 
>> advantage is that it reads the vector-based shapes that 
>scoring programs generate.
>> Scanned pdf scores, such as those produced by CDSheetMusic are 
>> entirely bitmapped graphics files.
>
>SmartScore doesn't scan the PDFs directly (or, at least, the 
>version I used doesn't), but requires TIFFs, so there'd really 
>be no difference for SmartScore.
>
>I don't know how PDFToMusic works, but it may be doing a TIFF 
>conversion internally so it wouldn't make any difference if 
>the PDF uses fonts or graphics to depict the music.

It reads the pdf vector graphics. Not good for scans, which are bitmapped.

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