Help: Inserting Music into Order of Service
Hello,
I need some help desperately.
I'm preparing a big service end of this month and would like to add in the melody line of certain new music that I will be composing for it into the order of service.
The Order of Service will be an A3 booklet and I will be using Corel Draw to prepare my layout.
I tried converting the musescore file to a PDF and tried importing it into Corel Draw but it keeps saying 'File Corrupted'
But it lets me import other PDF documents.
Is there anyway I can use Musescore to do this properly.
Please help.
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How did you convert the musescore file to PDF? It should work to Save As and choose PDF from the file type drop down. If you've got a specific case where it didn't, posting it might help.
You can also save as PNG; that's probably a better choice for this type of thing.
In reply to How did you convert the by Marc Sabatella
Thanks, Marc!!
The conversion to PNG worked like a charm!
thanks for the tip!!
:)
In reply to How did you convert the by Marc Sabatella
oh dear, looks like I spoke too soon.
I can import the PNG file but it's far too small when I print it.. when I try and expand it it gets all blurry and some of the bar lines don't get printed and it's not as crisp as when I print it straight off Musescore
:(
I click on 'save as' and then choose 'PNG' from the drop down menu.
So is there no way to import manuscript into documents like how Sibelius does it?
Please help :(
In reply to oh dear, looks like I spoke by newmozart
How did you convert to PDF ? File -> Save as ? or you print to a PDF printer ?
Regarding the PNG, you need it how many time bigger ?
In reply to How did you convert to PDF ? by [DELETED] 5
hi, thanks for the reply,
I saved to PDF as follows
File > Save as > PDF
I have scanned in the document in question.. you can see how small the PNG file is in between the text.
The score below that is the actual size straight off musescore. And you notice how clear and crisp it is.
I know the compression whilst saving results in the blurry images but I do hope there is someway to do this so that I can have a nice crisp piece of manuscript on the order of service :)
thanks for all the help
In reply to hi, thanks for the reply, I by newmozart
http://getgreenshot.org/
It is free and adds a .pdf feature to your print menu. I have used it many times with no problem. It will serve until MS solves this problem.
Regards,
In reply to I use this. by xavierjazz
many thanks for the link.
Unfortunately it doesn't convert very well for me.
It's too blurry when I print it off. :(
It copies the manuscript well. Retains its size and all; but once I import the JPG or PNG into Corel draw it gets terribly blurry and pixelated.
[Oh, and it's corel draw that I use, not MSWord :)]
thanks for the reply.
back to the drawing board I suppose..
In reply to many thanks for the by newmozart
Is it blurry on screen? Have you tried printing it? Pagemaker (old layout program) does the same thing to images when you import them for page layout. The displayed image is _very_ ugly but it is only an on-screen representation of the imported image, a place-holder. Once you print it, the original image is there.
However, if you open the original PNG and it's blurry, then thats a different issue.
[ Edit ] Missed the part where you said "blurry when I print it off". I agree with Xavier, somethings wrong in Corel Draw.
There was another post where a user said the header of the PNG files was wrong wrt the DPI, it was being set to 1200. See the issue http://musescore.org/en/node/10895 as this might be causing some of the problems.
In reply to Blurry by schepers
ok.. I'll check with Coreldraw experts how I can resolve the issue.
Many thanks for taking the time to help me out..
:)
In reply to many thanks for the by newmozart
to print complete letter-size clear copies, and since this "blurry' problem seems to be happening no matter which program you are using to generate the .pdf pics, I think you may have a problem in the Corel Draw settings that needs to be addressed and not in the pic generating programs.
Regards,
In reply to I am easily able by xavierjazz
Is there anyway to export just the staves and not the whole page?
In reply to Is there anyway to export by newmozart
You could set your margins to 0 and then make the page size just big enough. There is also a plug-in that is set up to help create such "snippets"; you can get it here:
http://musescore.org/en/project/snippetcreator
The next major release will have a feature where you select a region and can export just that,
In reply to many thanks for the by newmozart
Ok. Let's me sum it up.
You export a musescore file with File -> Save as and then you import it in Corel Draw. You got an error in Corel Draw. Can you give more details about this error ?
Another way to export a PDF from MuseScore is via File -> Print and use PDF printer such as PDF Creator
In reply to Ok. Let's me sum it up. You by [DELETED] 5
Greenshot is, a .pdf printer. It didn't work for him.
In reply to Ok. Let's me sum it up. You by [DELETED] 5
Here's what I do
File > Save as > PDF from the drop down menu
It opens beautifully in Acrobat Reader X
In corelDraw I use the import button and open the pdf file and then I get a pop up box asking if I want it as Text or Curves. I select Curves then I get another dialog box asking me to substitute fonts; I don't know why this comes up when I selected 'curves' just before; Anyway I select 'Temporary' and click ok
"File Corrupted"
I have tried all possible combinations when I have imported to Coreldraw. i.e. I've selected 'Text' instead of 'Curves' .. I have selected 'Permanent' instead of Temporary and so on but all I get is
"File Corrupted.
Now I didn't know about the 'File > Print > use PDF Printer.
Even though the comment above say that Greenshot is a PDF printer, I have not seen an option to convert my screenshots into PDF documents. All I see is save as PNG, BMP, GIF, and JPG. Please advise.
Also do I have download this PDF creator in order for me to see it in the Printer screen; all I see now is my printer? Any specific one?
NM
In reply to Here's what I do File > Save by newmozart
From the program that you wish to print, print. A box will come up - you will see a new choice.
Regards,
In reply to Here's what I do File > Save by newmozart
I tried to import a PDF file from MuseScore (Save as) in Illustrator (apparently the competitor of Corel Draw). At first it was complaining about missing font. But it does import the file, the glyphs are replaced with question marks.
Apparently Illustrator doesn't pick the emebedded font in the PDF by default. So I followed this short tip, and finally the PDF opens in Illustrator
In reply to Here's what I do File > Save by newmozart
Hi guys,
I've sorted out my problem. It's a bit long winded but I have no choice. Plus it works better this way.
Here's what I do:
I save the musescore file as a PDF using File>save as
Then I open that PDF file in Photoshop and just like that it opens the file with just the staves and no white background!! how lucky is that!
The PDF that is open is a bit light so I add in a layer effect of a 1px stroke and it darkens up everything.
I then re-save this photoshop file as a PDF. and import this file into corel draw. the end result is a clear stave-only set of music, no white background.. (yeeyy) It's not AS crisp as the musescore but waaaaaay better than what I was getting. Plus it retains its size as well.
..
I have another question now.
about pick up measures.
My piece of music is in 4/4 and the piece starts on the 4th beat [a crotchet] and ends with a dotted minium.
But when I get to the end of the piece musescore doesn't write in just a dotted minium, it adds in a crotchet rest as well...
Please can someone help me figure out pickup measures and how I get rid of the extra rest. Shouldn't it calculate the measures?
thanks in advance.
In reply to I did it by newmozart
Right click on the last measure -> Measure properties -> Actual duration -> 3 / 4
In reply to Right click on the last by [DELETED] 5
Thank you.. you're a star, Lasconic!!
it worked..
:))
In reply to hi, thanks for the reply, I by newmozart
The PDF version being generated (according to Acrobat) is 1.4, quite old and easily supported. I'm surprised Corel has an issue with it, unless it is being generated incorrectly.
The PNG is being exported at 600DPI, which I suspect is wrong. The pic comes in at half the size that it should be, so 300DPI would be correct.
I couldn't do anything useful with PS and SVG.
In case anybody else runs across this old thread, I'm adding this to the bottom of it: starting with MuseScore 2.0 this is no longer an issue—just use Image Capture .