Re: Photoscore

[Jacques Menu Muzhic]

Oups, totally forgot I had tested it two years ago, my fault.

> Le 22 nov. 2016 à 17:22, Jacques Menu Muzhic <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> 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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