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bubu42
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Re: PDFtoMusic trial version issues with Musescore
« Reply #16 on: Jan 4th, 2022, 10:52am » |
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Don't forget to compare both versions (standard and pro). Basically, they work the same for recognition but the pro version comes with a few features (e.g. batch processing) that you may not need in 99% of cases.
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Sylvain Machefert
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Re: PDFtoMusic trial version issues with Musescore
« Reply #17 on: Jan 4th, 2022, 2:32pm » |
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Difference between Pro and Standard version - Pro : the same license work on MacOS and Windows (as opposite of what I thought)
- Pro : batch export
- PDFtoMusic Pro can export in MusicXML file format which is the standard of exchange between musical programs.
The most important thing for importing in MuseScore - Pro has an expert mode, expert mode can make difference in 1% cases as explained by bubu42
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Re: PDFtoMusic trial version issues with Musescore
« Reply #18 on: Jan 4th, 2022, 3:06pm » |
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Well, unfortunately although Musescore was able to bring in the xml file not promising. An error msg indicated the xml was corrupted, but i chose to ignore to see if the score could be readable. The notation was not acceptable enough at all. So, It is very possible that Musescore itself could be the culprit and not pdfToMusic. No way to really tell at thi poit. Not even sure there is a standard of reading the xml into a score. By that i mean, yes, XML is a standard, but how score editors interpret xml could be a factor. Oh well thankx everyone for looking into this issue
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Re: PDFtoMusic trial version issues with Musescore
« Reply #19 on: Jan 4th, 2022, 3:32pm » |
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The code is probably the same in HA and PDFTM, but how about this procedure ? PDFTM export into .myr format, then open in HA and export from HA into XML format
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Re: PDFtoMusic trial version issues with Musescore
« Reply #20 on: Jan 4th, 2022, 5:58pm » |
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MusicXML is very rich language. Music is also very rich language So every software that import / export MusicXML can be a bottleneck in communication, omitting to write things in .xml at export, or not interpreting / misunderstanding .xml file at import. Some months ago, I did an experiment : writed a drum staff in Harmony Assistant, export to MusicXML, import MusicXML in Harmony Assistant. Result was not consistent, i.e. : some "information" where missing, or suffered severe bugs. Some of these bugs were fixed, but I'm not sure all is done. Same kind of experimentation can be done by any software able to export and import MusicXML. I'm pretty sure that 100% of these softwares loose some data in this process. "Common" notation should be OK, but you can bump into problems with drums, or complex beaming, or microtonality, or something else. As PdfToMusic and Harmony Assistant are developped by the same guys, we can imagine than in memory, music is similar in both software, and MusicXML export may produce the same result, with their omissions or bugs. If you use their own format (.MYR), communication will be better between PdfToMusic and Harmony Assistant. If the PDF is badly writed, in your case, without drum clef, it's like if a human enter mistakes in notation software... and both export mistakes. You make try Harmony Assistant to get the best of PdfToMusic in a notation software, no MusicXML between them, so no bottleneck. In that case, if you don't need batch processing, expertmode (used in 1% of pdf), PdfToMusic standard + Harmony Assistant worths the price. Take time to try them, trial version is not limited in time, but in functionnality (number of pages for example). H.A. license is OS-dependant, one license for MacOS, one for Windows, one for Linux. I never used MuseScore so I can't compare it with H.A. I use since 20 years. Test what you used to do on MuseScore.
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