Copyist score transfer
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Does anyone have experience with transferring scores from Copyist DTP into
ProPage V4.1 in such a way that you can see the actual musical score and then
be able to add text like lyrics to it. EPS format just gives a shaded box and
the manual is not really clear on how to save as a TIFF file, if that is the
route I need to go.
What I'd really like is to be able to have alternate screen fonts within the
Copyist DTP so I can fit all the lyrics I need to into one line directly. If
you've solved this problem, I'd love to hear from you.
Thanks in advance, Chris (BABA)
You need version 1.68 of Copyist to export EPS files with TIFF
headers. Actually the 1.68 EPS printer driver is what does the job.
Make sure the "include tiff" box is marked. This works correctly with
PageStream 2.2, don't know about ProPage though. Unfortunately, what
is exported is the screen image, not the version using the
sonata.font data.
Thanks Howard. In ProPage the box into which the EPS with TIFF header
graphic is imported just appears as a shaded box, the same as when
the header is not included. This is what puzzled me. I don't
actually see any screen image of notes, etc. I don't know if this is
a peculiarity of ProPage since it claims full EPS support and the
ability to import graphics in a range of formats including TIFF.
Hmm! I am using V1.68 of Copyist and V4.1 of ProPage (these should
be the most current of each).
It would be nice to be able to import the Sonata.font version of the
manuscript into a DTP program and then do editing on that, followed
by output to a PostScript printer, to get the best of both systems.
I also find it difficult to always accurately line up the start of
lyric phrases with certain notes in the bar. Do you do some of this
and if so do you have any tricks? It seems the spacing between words
affects their ultimate position so what appears on paper is not
necessarily in the same position as on the screen.
Thanks for your input………..Chris