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PDFtoMusic
displays Adobe PDF files as documents. Several
documents can be loaded
simultaneously.
General points
Toolbar
Drawer
Saving files
General points
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While loading and processing a PDF file, analysis
progress is shown
through icons. You can cancel the processing at any
point by hitting
the "Esc" key or by closing the window.
Once the analysis is complete, the PDF drawing is
displayed in a
document window.
Toolbar
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The toolbar in the upper part of this window enables
you to
play music, navigate within the score, pause and
restart playback and
adjust volume or tempo (playback speed).
Tips:
- To quickly start or stop playback, use the
space bar.
- To activate "loop mode", use the "*" key
- To fast forward, use the "+" key
- To fast backward, use the "-" key
- To pause music, use the "=" key
- Page up and Page down keys to change page
If the document contains several pages, the
following icons enable you
to
switch to the previous or next page. You can also
use the vertical
scrollbar to move through the whole document.
The next icons change the display scale of the
document.
The "info" icon displays information about the
document. These details
are extracted from the PDF file: title, document
author, creation date,
as well as the character fonts embedded in this
document.
If the Adobe PDF document include lyrics, the "bird"
icon is present.
Click this icon to activate the virtual singer
before starting
playback. This default setting can be changed in
Preferences,
"Document" section.
The "export" icon exports the music piece in the
current format
specified in general preferences, "Export" section.
But you can also
select another format from the file
selector, by typing in the matching extension. For
instance, to export
in Wave format, end the filename with ".WAV".
You can cancel the export at any time by hitting the
Esc key.
Right-clicking (or Shift + click) on the toolbar
changes its appearance.
The "Setup..." option enables to customise the
toolbar icon list
according to your needs.
Drawer
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If your document contains several pages, the last
icon opens and closes
the drawer. A drawer is a secondary window, linked
to the main one,
that shows a general preview of the document. Click
a thumbnail to jump
directly to the selected page.
If errors have been
found, a warning sign
is displayed, specifying the
number of errors detected on this page.
Saving files
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When amendments have been applied to the document,
as for instance a
change in the instruments, volume, or music symbols
recognition, you
can save these changes so that they will be
preserved when loading the
file again later.
PDFtoMusic lets you choose beween two modes that can
be set up from
general preferences.
1- Save changes in the Adobe PDF file itself
(When Settings > Preferences > Document
> Store corrections in PDF file is checked)
Data is preserved in the Adobe PDF file. A backup
copy of this file is
performed. This doesn't affect the way this PDF file
is displayed by
other programs.
The advantage to this mode is that, when you send
the file to somebody
else, your changes are carried along.
2- Save changes in a separate file
(When Settings > Preferences > Document
> Store corrections in PDF file is not
checked)
The original Adobe PDF file is not modified, and the
data are stored in
a separate file, created in the "Correction"
subfolder of your user
file space.
Please note that, in this mode, you can still
generate a PDF file in
which your amendments are embedded by using the
"File > Save as..."
menu option.
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