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How do I start a score using a pdf file and putting it on the score?
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My comment was not really helpful.
In reply to Note by xavierjazz
No really you were! :(
If you could elaborate a little more, for instance explaining what you mean by "using a pdf file", answers could be more on the mark.
If you mean that you have a score as a PDF file and you want it to end up as a MuseScore file, the short answer is "Re-type it!".
There is a number of programs, known under the "OMR" tag (Optical Music Recognition), pretending to automatically convert an image (and a PDF file is, or can be converted to, a series of images) into a score; usually the OMR program has an option to save as MusicXML which can be then imported in MuseScore.
This in theory; in practice I tried half a dozen of them, both freeware and commercial, and even the best result are so approximate that the time spent in discovering the errors and correcting them is comparable to (if not plainly greater than) the time required to re-type the score from scratch. So, I dropped OMR altogether: it sounds promising but falls too short under any respect.
If you mean something else, please explain.
M.
In reply to Some more details? by Miwarre
I mean, Can I take a file, on my computer, and with out retyping it, copy it onto my score? Cause some people do that in just a few minutes, and it makes me sad that they are doing that in a few minuets and it takes me a week to do this. I hope this ws enough info for you. Thanks again.
In reply to Here is some more... by pianogirl11
the answer really is No. Search this site for OMR (optical music recognition) and you will find info.
If it is a MIDI file, with certain caveats, the answer is yes. XML files will also import.
Regards,
In reply to Here is some more... by pianogirl11
Maybe you could convert it into a jpg or png, than you can add it to a score, as a picture.
In reply to Here is some more... by pianogirl11
"Can I take a file, on my computer, and with out retyping it, copy it onto my score?"
It depends on the file format; as Xavierjazz said, MusicXML files can be imported in MuseScore with good results; MIDI files can also be imported (with some complications, due to the lack of some specific data in the MIDI format); some file formats of some other music notation programs can also be imported (but not from the major, commercial, music notation programs, because the formats they use is proprietary and not documented).
This is assuming we are speaking of music; but the wording of your sentence makes me think you have some specific process in mind:
"copy onto my score"? Do you mean you have a score you are notating and you want to insert somewhere in it a bunch of data from an external file you have in your computer?
What it is that file? images? they can be directly 'dragged and dropped' into your score (MuseScore recognizes several common formats); texts? they cannot be imported, but very long texts are rather rare in scores (for sure texts which need "a week" to be re-typed).
"Cause some people do that in just a few minutes"
With music? I tend to doubt it. Do you refer to some specific case?
Maybe what you have in mind can be done with MuseScore, perhaps with a trick or two, but the community here needs to understand in greater details what you are trying to achieve in order to provide useful suggestions.
Thanks,
M.