Am Mittwoch, 05. Oktober 2016 16:54 CEST, Martyn Hodgson <hodgsonmar...@cs.dartmouth.edu> schrieb: > 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...
Please, don't use Gimp. It's a marvelous program, but not meant for that kind of job (and your "IT-person" should know ...) Gimp works on raster images only and will convert a pdf to a (set of) raster images. At that point you work with pixel data which will most likely look rather disapointing when printed at a different resolution. > 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. Before you investigate further in Finale (a piece of crap IMHO) you might want to have a look at MuseScore (https://musescore.org) - that'll probably give you more than you ever need, and the latest versions have pretty good support for lute tab. > 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. The digital version of that would be to import our pdf into a vector drawing program (Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape etc.) but the quality of that import depends on the program that generated the pdf. Unfortunately, the only convincing path to solve your problem is to use the same program as the original typesetter (if you can get the original digital version, NO the pdf). Otherwise, a good pair of scissors IS an astonishingly effective tool :-) Cheers, Ralf Mattes > regards > Martyn > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
