Re: [Finale] SmartScore Lite Problem

2008-11-19 Thread Allen Fisher
Yep. I do not know how good they are. On Nov 19, 2008, at 2:48 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: You mean like the training tools in OCR? Allen Fisher Founder and Principal Developer Fisher Art and Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ F

RE: [Finale] SmartScore Lite Problem

2008-11-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Nov 2008 at 15:24, Richard Yates wrote: > Overall, for me, music scanning software is just not yet up to saving me any > time. But for *my* purposes, which was converting a PDF created from a music notation program, even the 2003 version of SmartScore Lite was satisfactory (I, too, had to

RE: [Finale] SmartScore Lite Problem

2008-11-19 Thread Richard Yates
I am browsing public domain pdf files from CDSheetmusic to see what might transcribe for guitar. In light of this week's discussion I downloaded SharpEye and PDFtoMusic Pro. Using SharpEye was convoluted because the it needs TIFF files. I had to: 1. Convert the protected pdf files in the Adobe P

Re: [Finale] SmartScore Lite Problem

2008-11-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Nov 2008 at 22:06, dc wrote: > David W. Fenton écrit: > >Well, that entails the problems of sewing together multiple 1-page > >files into a single score, > > Simply copy and paste all the bits into one score. "Simply"? Er, in my experience, that's not without its problems, such as lost cl

Re: [Finale] SmartScore Lite Problem

2008-11-19 Thread Eric Fiedler
David, Thanks for the Altenburg and the tip about the archive. By the way, according to the latter, the music was engraved with "Capella", which is very big here in Germany (capella-software GmbH, An der Söhrebahn 4, D-34320 Söhrewald, which is near Kassel). A lot of students use it becaus

Re: [Finale] SmartScore Lite Problem

2008-11-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Nov 2008 at 20:21, dc wrote: > dhbailey écrit: > >One thing I don't understand about the PDFtoMusicPro product -- doesn't it > >only work when the PDF has been created by a notation program? If that's > >the case, why not just ask the originator for their music notation file > >and work

Re: [Finale] SmartScore Lite Problem

2008-11-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Nov 2008 at 13:55, dhbailey wrote: > One thing I don't understand about the PDFtoMusicPro product > -- doesn't it only work when the PDF has been created by a > notation program? If that's the case, why not just ask the > originator for their music notation file and work from that? Beca

RE: [Finale] SmartScore Lite Problem

2008-11-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Nov 2008 at 12:06, Howey, Henry wrote: > SHARPEYE (PC only) is the only one that really works;-) I'm processing PDFs, so PDFToMusic would make more sense, though the method I've been using of generating TIFFs from a PDF and running those through SSL would also work with Sharpeye. It's no

Re: [Finale] SmartScore Lite Problem

2008-11-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Nov 2008 at 10:15, Allen Fisher wrote: > The result is better than SSL, in that more things are recognized. In the case of the first two scores I did with SSL, the things it didn't recognize were actually a blessing, since I would have had to completely alter them in any event. It was t

Re: [Finale] SmartScore Lite Problem

2008-11-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Nov 2008 at 14:28, dc wrote: > David W. Fenton écrit: > >This won't help me when I need to process a full score. > > You can do the whole score one page at a time. It's only a few seconds for > each page. So if the result is better than with SSL, you end up saving time. Well, that entails

Re: [Finale] note expression secret mouse clicks

2008-11-19 Thread Matthew Gmail
Select the expression handle then press 2 twice- like a keyboard double-click - that will do the trick IIRC. Big time and hassle saver. Matthew On 19/11/2008, at 12:09 PM, Ryan Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi List, Here's the situation: I have some expressions assigned as metatools (a

Re: [Finale] SmartScore Lite Problem

2008-11-19 Thread dhbailey
One thing I don't understand about the PDFtoMusicPro product -- doesn't it only work when the PDF has been created by a notation program? If that's the case, why not just ask the originator for their music notation file and work from that? David H. Bailey Thurletta Brown-Gavins wrote: And t

Re: [Finale] SmartScore Lite Problem

2008-11-19 Thread Thurletta Brown-Gavins
And there's no time limit on the PDFtoMusic Pro trial version, from what I can tell. Thurletta On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 Dennis responded to David's This won't help me when I need to process a full score. by writing You can do the whole score one page at a time. It's only a few seconds for each p

RE: [Finale] SmartScore Lite Problem

2008-11-19 Thread Howey, Henry
SHARPEYE (PC only) is the only one that really works;-) From: Allen Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:15 AM To: finale Subject: Re: [Finale] SmartScore Lite Problem The result is better than SSL, in that more things are recognized. Smar

Re: [Finale] SmartScore Lite Problem

2008-11-19 Thread Allen Fisher
The result is better than SSL, in that more things are recognized. SmartScore Pro also has tools that let you clean up the scan, and clean up any really glaring mistakes before bringing it over to Finale. I haven't used SSP in a long time. A co-worker has it for testing purposes and it look

Re: [Finale] Finale Script

2008-11-19 Thread noel jones
Thanks! noel On Nov 18, 2008, at 11:12 PM, Allen Fisher wrote: Yes! Here's a script that should handle it: ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] SmartScore Lite Problem

2008-11-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Nov 2008 at 8:01, dc wrote: > David W. Fenton écrit: > >Well, I don't have $199 to spend on a program that I'm likely to use > >maybe twice a year. > > The trial version lets you export one page at a time. This won't help me when I need to process a full score. -- David W. Fenton

Re: [Finale] SmartScore Lite Problem

2008-11-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 18 Nov 2008 at 23:32, Barbara Touburg wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > > 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