Re: [Finale] Scanning a score
Friends, Permit me to clarify a bit what I wrote earlier.: I lay the film across the glass of the flatbed, scan the images visible at 1200 dpi, and save them as ~.tif files. When I want to view an image, I change the dpi from 1200 to a different figure, and the images are a workable size. I take the microfilm image scanned at 1200 dpi, of an image which is about 1 inch by 3/4 of an inch, and change the dpi from 1200 to 150. This results in a tif file which displays as 8 by 6 inches, readable on a computer screen, and if need be, when I import the image into my image manipulation program of choice (happens to be GIMP), I can increase the size of the image by scaling. The only reason I can think of that this would not work with your pocket score, is binding. If your score is perfect bound (which I think is the term used in the bookbinding trade in the U.S.), it will lay flat, and you will have problems with this method. As I understand it, perfect binding is where the pages are trimmed, and glued together, the method used to produce pocket sized paper back books. Better quality books of small number of pages are often saddle bound, with a number of double leaves folded, and stapled in the gutter of the fold. Still better, and longer books are folded, stitched along the fold, and multiple gatherings bound. Because the individual leaves are glued, perfect bound books cannot be made to lay flat face down, without breaking the glue. Better luck can be had scanning books which are saddle bound, or which consist of multiple gatherings; even so, I suspect it's not really very good on the bindings. ns ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Scanning a score
Will Denayer wrote: Hello All, I received the Hawkes Pocket Score from Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra which I bought at Amazon. The score looks fine but the print is so small that I can hardly read it. This is probably not going to work, but I was thinking that it should be possible to scan it into Finale - or just scan it so that it is a PDF-file (?). I think it will be a lot of trouble because it is 147 pages. Do you think it's worth the try or should I just photocopy the thing to a larger size? Best wishes for the new year to all, Will I have purchased some manuscripts on microfilm for personal study. These are standard 35 mm microfilms, and I use them by scanning the images on my older "true 1200 dpi" Epson scanner. I lay the film across the glass of the flatbed, scan the images visible at 1200 dpi, and save them as ~.tif files. When I want to view an image, I change the dpi from 1200 to a different figure, and the images are a workable size. The only reason I can think of that this would not work with your pocket score, is binding. If your score is perfect bound (which I think is the term used in the bookbinding trade in the U.S.), it will lay flat, and you will have problems with this method. In that case you will need to disbind the book. Even if your volume is not perfect bound, the process will not be good for the binding, and depending upon how valuable the book itself is, you may or may not want to proceed with scanning it, but the same considerations apply to photocopying, on most machines I've seen. I should note, at least for sake of completeness, that there are both photocopiers and scanners,designed with the glass all the way to the edge, and a slanted side on the edge at the glass, like this ___ / which seem to be principally intended for use in libraries. I've seen a scanner like this produced by Epson, and a photocopier produced by Xerox, so it might be worth calling around to see if a nearby library has a this type of equipment, and what it would cost to use it to scan your book. ns ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Scanning a score
At 04:55 PM 12/29/2006, Will Denayer wrote: >I received the Hawkes Pocket Score from Bartok's Concerto for >Orchestra which I bought at Amazon. The score looks fine but the print >is so small that I can hardly read it. This is probably not going to >work, but I was thinking that it should be possible to scan it into >Finale - or just scan it so that it is a PDF-file (?). If the point is just to make it bigger, or make it reproducible, then you can scan it and save as TIFs or PDFs, depending on your software. The only reason to get it into Finale would be if you wanted to edit the notes, and to do that you'd have to first scan it and then import it, and importing the scans into Finale really doesn't work so well. >I think it will >be a lot of trouble because it is 147 pages. Do you think it's worth >the try or should I just photocopy the thing to a larger size? Scanning will undoubtedly take you much more time than photocopying and may not give you results as good. Or you could just buy the larger size score from Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/y9x57e Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Scanning a score
Hello All, I received the Hawkes Pocket Score from Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra which I bought at Amazon. The score looks fine but the print is so small that I can hardly read it. This is probably not going to work, but I was thinking that it should be possible to scan it into Finale - or just scan it so that it is a PDF-file (?). I think it will be a lot of trouble because it is 147 pages. Do you think it's worth the try or should I just photocopy the thing to a larger size? Best wishes for the new year to all, Will Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
