I am just acclimatising to some of the new facilities offered by Sibelius 7.
1. Is there a way to export individual pages of a score as pdfs (rather than the whole score) - as there would be if printing it?
2. I have a Mac, which enables pdf conversion at the print stage anyway, but I am estimating that doing the conversion within Sibelius will create a superior pdf, as the program is optimised for music. Does anyone know if this is, in fact, the case?
Thanks, Bob, It's very useful to know about this plug in. The page is actually a cover page and I'll use the default Mac pdf function, as the plug in does not seem to work on cover pages.
So, just to summarize, on a mac there is one way to create a pdf: use the mac's print dialog. There's no pdf export from Sib. You can select which pages get made into the pdf in the print dialog before saving as a pdf. Or you can save a pdf of the entire score, open it, and choose which pages to print. Or you can use the plugin to create another score that is a subset of the original score and then save that as a pdf in its print dialog. The first way seems the most straightforward.
On the contrary, there has been PDF export from Sibelius ever since Sibelius version 7.0. But it is an export of the entire Full Score, and/or the entire Dynamic Part(s), and the page range cannot be selected.
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Sibelius 7.5.1/7.1.3/6.2/5.2.5, PhotoScore Ult 7.0.2, Dolet 6.3 for Sibelius, Windows 7 32-bit SP1 4GB, Windows 8.1 64-bit 16GB.
James - Sib 7 (but not 6, which I see you are using) does in fact support direct pdf export.
Part of my question relates to the relative quality between using the Sib onboard pdf export facility versus using the Mac printer dialogue to create a pdf. The appearance of such files onscreen are DIFFERENT. The Sib-produced pdf file looks just like the original Sib file. The Mac dialogue-produced pdf looks quite different. This may just be a question of screen pixels.
The real test will be in the printing out of both - to test the comparative quality.
I will report back to this discussion if I have any new info on this question.
Thanks also for the graphic file. Again very helpful. I had not seen the "Use OS dialog" tucked away at the bottom till then. BTW Did you create those red arrows and rectangles from within Sibelius, or which other graphic program?
All the best,
David
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> File tab>Print>Use OS Dialog..and pls see attachment.
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> It works fine here.
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> Thanks Bob
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> Bob,
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> Thanks also for the graphic file. Again very helpful. I had not seen the "Use OS dialog" tucked away at the bottom till then. BTW Did you create those red arrows and rectangles from within Sibelius, or which other graphic program?
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> All the best,
> David
Youre very welcome David:)
As youre also on a Mac, those arrows and stuff are part of Preview, a Mac application, which you should already have--
All the .png 's I take end up on my Desktop, and I open them in Preview. And in Preview, its the Tools Menu>Annotate>Rectangle, oval, Line..the Line has the arrow, and there are other choices there, etc.
I also use the Rectangular Selection to trim off unwanted stuff, by drawing a rectangle around it and hitting Delete..its a GREAT tool:)
Pls see attachment.
Thanks Bob
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Bob Morabito
Sib 5.2.5, 6.2, 7.1.3. 7.5.1
Mac OS 10.9.5 iMac 32GB RAM, 1 TB SSD
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> As youre also on a Mac, those arrows and stuff are part of Preview, a Mac application, which you should already have--
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Yes, Bob, I should have guessed. I often use the Preview "Crop" etc. but had not explored "Annotate" before. Great tip! Thanks for yet another graphic :-) Cheers!
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> Yes, Bob, I should have guessed. I often use the Preview "Crop" etc. but had not explored "Annotate" before. Great tip! Thanks for yet another graphic :-) Cheers!
My pleasure David--youre welcome:)
Thanks Bob
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Bob Morabito
Sib 5.2.5, 6.2, 7.1.3. 7.5.1
Mac OS 10.9.5 iMac 32GB RAM, 1 TB SSD
> 2. I have a Mac, which enables pdf conversion at the print stage anyway, but I am estimating that doing the conversion within Sibelius will create a superior pdf, as the program is optimised for music. Does anyone know if this is, in fact, the case?
I frankly don't think you'll see any difference. It's not as if the OS printer driver is "converting" "music" to "PDF." When printing, Sibelius is essentially just issuing drawing commands. Whether they go to a "real" printer or a virtual printer should not make any difference.
That said, all the software involved is doing lots of very complicated stuff to get you dots on a page. Sometimes there are surprises. Why don't you try it and see if there's a visible difference? It's not as if a PDF file is expensive to produce.