Transferring fingerings to other software
My interest in this post is informational, only.
Recently there was a thread about fingerings not being transferred to Sibelius. I can confirm this. For no particular reason I did a little testing.
I created a test file in Sibelius with fingerings above the staff. I saved as mxl and opened in MuseScore. Interestingly enough, the fingerings were there but below the staff instead of above.
Then I saved the MuseScore file (with fingerings) as a PDF. The Sibelius PDF reader did not show fingerings.
I made the Sibelius file (with fingerings) into a PDF and imported it into MuseScore. No fingerings. Although fingerings 1 2 3 were shown as a triplet.
I took the MuseScore created PDF (with fingerings) and imported back into MuseScore. No fingerings.
This is not a complaint. Rather a reminder that transferring files between different programs is tenuous at best.
Comments
Why are you transferring via PDF at all?
What happened to MusicXML?
In reply to Why are you transferring via… by jeetee
I forgot to stipulate that MusicXML did not work. Notes were there, but no fingerings. That was the problem in the original thread.
In reply to I forgot to stipulate that… by bobjp
That's likely an error on the Sibelius side then, as MuseScore has been import/exporting fingerings for a while now (at least it already did in 2.3.2)
I personally would prefer going over MusicXML and then if need be (as per your experience) redo the fingerings in the other software. A PDF export/import cycle is at least as likely to miss (or misinterpret) those fingerings; but also has a good chance of messing up other additional things in the process.
In reply to That's likely an error on… by jeetee
I don't do anything with fingering so I'm not really worried. I was just interested because I happen to have both programs. So I could experiment.
I suspect that there may be problems on both ends. Remember that MuseScore put fingerings from Sibelius below the staff.
As another experiment, in MuseScore, I put fingerings in as lyrics above the staff. I exported as MusicXML and when I opened in Sibelius, the fingerings were there above the staff.