Looks like you found the solution Steve. I use a freeware version of Switch for converting between .wav & mp3 http://nch.com.au/switch/index.html It works...
... I use a freeware version of Switch for converting between .wav & mp3 http://nch.com.au/switch/index.html It works great but I do not see .wma listed on my...
... Thanks for the idea, but that's not for me. I'm typesetting my own songbook, with chord symbols above the verses and the notes in case I have them. This ...
... This discussion has reminded me of a task I'll be doing soon and I wondered what an easy way to do this is. I'm on Windows and use Open Office generally. ...
iTunes also lets you convert between a number of formats including .wav to .mp3. On the Mac version at least (I haven't used the PC version) it requires...
Steve Wyrick
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Jan 2, 2008 4:06 pm
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... to .mp3. On the Mac version at least (I haven't used the PC version) it requires fooling around with the importing preferences to set your preferred file...
On Jan 2, 2008, at 7:20 AM, Paul Rosen wrote: <snip> ... I myself use abc to create tune arrangements for publication in a monthly newsletter. The former...
... I've just had a look at my version (2.3 on Linux) of OO. I see there is an insert OLE object option. It does not work properly for me but you might find...
Jon Freeman
jon@...
Jan 2, 2008 6:56 pm
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I print music from PDF & am happy with the results. I have a PC w/Windows & mainly uses AbcEdit. My friend, however has a different story . . . He switched to...
... It looks like the basic version of Switch is still freeware. The only problem is that the authors realllly want you to buy some of their other software,...
Another approach is to use the PDF Toolkit: http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/ This can do all kinds of neat things with PDF files -- split, merge, etc. You can...
... Not that I have any song books planned, I've just installed this- it looks as if it could come in handy some time. Thanks for the pointer....
Jon Freeman
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Jan 2, 2008 9:54 pm
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... I'm not mac user but if I was, I'd use Barfly and abcm2ps. I believe that newer versions of Barfly can send the abc to abcm2ps to make life easier in...
Jon Freeman
jon@...
Jan 2, 2008 11:41 pm
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... -- Once in a long while I sin by actually paying for good software. Today, I discovered that an "old-friend app" now works on my 64-bit, PC-compatible...
... Yes. I can't speak for Skink, but BarFly is not intended for use as a musical typesetter. It's for working with abc, and while it's printed output is...
OTOH, I _can_ speak for Skink... ;-) Similarly to BarFly, Skink is intended for editing and viewing, not so much for print. I'm in the process of creating...
Thank you Will & thank you Phil; I will make sure my friend with the Mac reads your posts. I usually see him at our session so eventually I will have to go to ...
I am slowly figuring out how to put together runabc.tcl My problem was I could not locate the necessary executable files. Finally I figured out where the were...
Hello Wil; Let us know when you have version 2. I just opened up Skink for the 1st time; beta might be an overload. In the next week I will try a few tunes. ...
... That sounds like a perfect solution so I tried that, but I wasn't able to do anything with the resulting file. I did: abcm2ps -E mytune.abc It output the...
... That looks pretty much the same as my output except I notice I'm using abcm2ps 4-12.29 On OO, I Insert/Picture/From File... and I see the score as a...
Jon Freeman
jon@...
Jan 6, 2008 4:16 pm
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You should check if the score is *printed* on paper when it is not shown on the screen. There are programs that can embed EPS files, but cannot interpret them ...
Programs like GhostView can save the file in a few formats (postscript, EPS and a variant of EPS). Perhaps that would open up some possibilities for the...
Once a document is in a graphics format, seems like any graphic editing program would make it possible to insert more graphics. I know of other programs that...
... I downloaded abcm2ps-4-12-30 and abcm2ps-5-7-0 and they all act the same way. I'll email you my file just to check, but I'm guessing that there is...
PostScript is well supported in GNU systems, which always include GhostScript. It seems that John uses GNU, and OO can find gs to generate the image to...
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