>-----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. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
