Thank you Arthur. In fact chatting to an IT person earlier today they suggested GIMP which seems to be much used for art work etc but they thought might also be useful to move blocks of musical systems around. I've downloaded it (it's free!) but the operation of the software isn't obvious so I'll have to find precious time to understand it - unless my son (now a Seattle resident) can explain it all to me when I next chat with him... Incidentally, Finale does have a free 'Notepad' version but this seems very limited and unable (I think) to do the sort of cut and paste I had in mind. Previously I've simply run off a photocopy and by using some large paper shears and glue made a physical paste up - but the 160+ pages of the mass rather put me off this traditional technique - hence the search for a digital alternative. regards Martyn __________________________________________________________________
From: AJN <arthurjn...@verizon.net> To: mjhodg...@hotmail.co.uk; bruno.l...@gmail.com; tiorbin...@gmail.com; davidvanooi...@gmail.com; arthurjn...@verizon.net Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Wednesday, 5 October 2016, 15:14 Subject: [LUTE] Re: Creating a short score from pdf full score You might start with one of the OMR (Optical Music Recognition) programs. I've never used this process, but a publisher did reformat a page that I submitted in *.pdf format. He downloaded the resulting file into a music notation program and re-edited it. See [1][1]http://www.music-notation.info/en/compmus/omr.html Do let us know how you solved the problem you presented us. It might be useful for others. On 10/05/16, MJ Hodgson<[2][2]mjhodg...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: Thanks Bruno - sounds like a good idea. I don't have Finale on my PC but will search for a, hopefully, free version. Martyn __________________________________________________________________ From: Bruno Figueiredo <[3][3]bruno.l...@gmail.com> Sent: 04 October 2016 16:13 To: Martyn Hodgson Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Creating a short score from pdf full score Dear Martyn, Another solution would be to import a pdf using the Finale program. The file will be converted to Finale and you will be able to do anything with it. Regards. 2016-10-04 4:57 GMT-03:00 Martyn Hodgson <[1][4][4]hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk>: Dear David and Bruno, Many thanks for this. I've looked at Partifi now: it seems mostly to have been designed to produce individual parts from a full score although there does seem to be the facility to combine some. But the need to have to label every line and specify a part on every single page might make the whole thing a bit labourious for what I wish to do. eg a 165 page full score with up to 30 independent parts/lines to cut and paste into a short score of just four principal lines would seem to take a long time to achieve - unless I've missed some easier facility within Partifi. But many thanks Martyn __________________________________________________________________ From: David van Ooijen <[2][5][5]davidvanooi...@gmail.com> To: MJ Hodgson <[3][6][6]mjhodg...@hotmail.co.uk> Cc: Lute NET <[4][7][7]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Monday, 3 October 2016, 15:18 Subject: [LUTE] Re: Creating a short score from pdf full score My mistake. Here's the correct link [1][5][8][8]http://partifi.org/ David On Monday, 3 October 2016, David van Ooijen <[2][6][9][9]davidvanooi...@gmail.com> wrote: Partify com or org, don't know). On Monday, 3 October 2016, MJ Hodgson <[1][3][7][10][10]mjhodg...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: I'd be grateful for advice on the best (free) software for creating a new short score from an existing pdf full score. What I mean is being able to copy two or three principal lines and the bass onto a new pdf page of, say, a 30 part mass which already exists as a pdf . I presume there's some where one can scroll over a line, copy it and paste onto a new pdf and so, by digitally cutting and pasting, create a new short score more useful to a theorbo player who finds dealing with page turns every few bars not really practicable (unlike keyboard where the right hand can turn). 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