I switched to Mac from Windows, and could no longer use
Fronimo....("Bad Move!" said Francesco, when I asked him how I could
use Fronimo on my new computer!) Thanks to someone's tip, I did
download free from the internet "Cute PDF", which allowed me to
transform Fronimo files into PDFs, and "share" them with myself on
Mac....better than nothing! Betsy
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Guy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hit Reply instead of Reply All...
-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 1:02 PM
To: 'Doc Rossi'
Subject: RE: [LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines
Word 2007 has a Save to PDF feature (introduced with that version, I
think).
Never tried it, though.
Guy
-----Original Message-----
From: Doc Rossi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 12:39 PM
To: List LUTELIST
Subject: [LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines
For PDFs, Mac OSX has a built-in Print to PDF feature that works
well. For Windows there are free virtual printers around that also
work pretty well. I remember using one that had Pony in the name
(sorry to be so vague).
On Dec 8, 2008, at 9:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> New to ther Lute list, and just acquired a Renaissance lute and
had
> a wonderful lesson with
> Ed Martin last Thursday.
> I have been typesetting and transcribing music in Finale since
2000.
> I just acquired and registered Fronimo last night.
> What I am seeing in this thread are pleas for BOTH
standardization
> AND maleability,
> and I totally understand the need for both.
> With many high end graphics and typesetting / notation programs,
> the developers do their
> best to keep their file types proprietary. This allows them to
earn
> a living from selling their
> programs. The down-side is that is limits the ability of the user
> to share files with
> colleagues, unless their colleagues have also bought the same
> expensive program. Add to
> this that if I haven't "upgraded" (i.e. sent another ton of money
to
> the developer) my Finale
> program, I won't be able to open files from a colleague who has
and
> sends me their newer
> version. It's a frustrating racket that thwarts maleability.
> I would like to see more cooperation amongst developers in this
> regard. I realize that for
> somebody writing a notation program in their spare time this could
> be a time consuming
> thing (nightmare?), but wouldn't it be nice if one could "import",
> for example, a Fronimo file
> into Finale, or vice versa? Or at least be able to change the
> formatting of a file to suit your
> taste without having to start entering every character from the
> beginning?
> One feature in Finale that I find very useful is you can import a
> MIDI file and it will notate it
> automatically (errors, of course, but much quicker than starting
> from scratch).
> This is a feature I would like to see built into Fronimo.
> Finale probably wouldn't even talk to Francesco, but perhaps
other
> Lute Tablature
> developers could work together on sharing file types?
> All that said, the best way to share printed music on the web
that
> I have found so far is
> PDF. PDFs are not alterable, but they sure are handy.
> Unfortunately, to MAKE PDFs it
> usually requires that one has bought the full version of Adobe
> Acrobat (not cheap), which
> incorporates a "printer" called the "Acrobat Distiller". One must
> use this feature in order to
> embed fonts like Fronimo Pavan, that other users may not have in
> their computers.
> Otherwise the end user sees gobbletygook. (I actually got Spiders
> once!) One can make
> scans into PDFs also (I do this by importing the scanned image
into
> a graphics program like
> CorelDraw, then printing to the Distiller), but to get good
> resolution the scan needs to be at
> least 300 - 400 dpi and the Distiller PDF settings should be 1200
> dpi. Otherwise the end
> user cannot enlarge it for their older eyes without it being
blurry.
> Anyway, I think whatever software develpoers could do to allow
> their users to share files
> would be a benefit.
> Tom
> Tom Draughon
> Heartistry Music
> [5]http://www.heartistry.com/artists/tom.html
> 714 9th Avenue West
> Ashland, WI 54806
> 715-682-9362
>
> On 8 Dec 2008 at 9:50, howard posner wrote:
>> On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Peter Nightingale wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> See Feynman:
>>> [6]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EZcpTTjjXY
>>>
>>
>> Fascinating, captain. A prominent scientist offering two minutes
of
>> meaningless generalities without a single fact. Completely
>> illogical.
>>
>> Yours truly.
>>
>> Mr. Spock
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>
> Tom Draughon
> Heartistry Music
> [8]http://www.heartistry.com/artists/tom.html
> 714 9th Avenue West
> Ashland, WI 54806
> 715-682-9362
>
>
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