Re: Photoscore

[Jacques Menu Muzhic]

I just downloaded the SmartScore X2 Pro demo for Mac, but it tells me that my 
60 day test period is over….

> Le 22 nov. 2016 à 14:21, SoundsFromSound <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> N. Andrew Walsh wrote
>> Hi List,
>> 
>> I've unfortunately run up against a suddenly very urgent deadline, that
>> involves all the worst things about doing engraving work with Lily while
>> trying to work with entrenched commercial interests.
>> 
>> Namely, I've spent the last year engraving a set of scores with Lily that
>> look great, but for a project that was financed by a large commercial
>> publisher that is dead-set on Sibelius. The financing depends on the
>> publisher getting a .sib file, and the project lead just told me yesterday
>> that I need to produce such a file in a week or two "or else."
>> 
>> I don't have Sibelius (I roll linux), but my partner does, so Urs and I
>> have a sort of hacky solution that might work: I start with a blank sib
>> file with all the voices and measures and meter changes, and then the
>> individual voices of the score from the .ly file. The .sib file gets
>> exported to a MusicXML file, as do the parts from the .ly file, and we're
>> going to try to copy the latter into the former, hoping that we can
>> re-import into Sibelius into something that only requires a reasonable
>> amount of work to clean up and submit.
>> 
>> Problem is, MusicXML is turning out to be somewhat … sub-functional, so
>> we're having difficulties.
>> 
>> However, my partner tells me that there's a commercial program called
>> "Photoscore" that can take scanned scores and produce Sibelius files from
>> them. But it's around $400, and (obviously) doesn't have a linux version.
>> 
>> My question for the list is: do any of you have this program? Does it
>> work?
>> If so, would you be willing to help me by scanning in the Lilypond scores
>> I
>> have? If we could get to a .sib file that even just *mostly* contains what
>> it needs to, without all this import/export buggery, it would save huge
>> amounts of time.
>> 
>> Please let me know asap if any of you do. Like I said, I'm under a
>> deadline
>> to get this done, and the alternative is a lot of time spent commuting to
>> a
>> computer lab off-site to re-enter everything manually. I'm *really* hoping
>> one of you can spare me that fate.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> A
>> 
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> Hi,
> 
> I've used Photoscore but I prefer SmartScore. It has been far superior in
> every project I've ever used it in. Worth every penny personally. It really
> is a great tool.
> 
> It depends on what your needs are, how often you use it, budget, etc.
> https://www.musitek.com/
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