Fragmentary SVG graphic
I want to make a little image file to use as an icon, from Musescore -- in practice a couple of beamed semiquavers, but I can customise them, rather than hunting online for a suitable graphic. Is there an easy way to export a fragment like this in SVG?
I can move the notes away from the staff lines, zoom in, and use screen capture, but this only gets me a pixel image, which doesn't reduce to a crisp icon.
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See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/image-capture, it can save as svg too
In reply to See https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
Great! Thanks... that was exactly what I needed. notes.svg
(Um. Yesterday I had no difficulty in moving a couple of notes away from the proper position, so as to get a plain background. I just tried again, and failed. I can't remember how I did it, and now I don't seem to be able to select just the notes in order to fiddle with the position in the inspector. What's the best approach to this?)
In reply to Great! Thanks... that was… by Imaginatorium
The best approach? To not move them, but mark stafflines invisible and save in Print Mode.
I refer you as well to the how to linked in the other post, which walks through creating an SVG of a fragment of a score.
Hello
I tried, like you, from a screenshot of a zoomed image that I then processed with an image editor generating icons. But I can't import here this file type...
I also tried creating a single bar score and exporting it to SVG. Then on an SVG software you can erase what's left over.
Directly exporting to SVG from the image capture tool should be the preferred route of the least resistance.
@papibois: So far I've not had to perform cleanup of those generated images; not sure for example where the additional vertical line comes from in your example there.
This technique is also used and explained in the how to for creating your own swing marking ( https://musescore.org/en/node/266325 )
In reply to Directly exporting to SVG… by jeetee
You're right. But how do you export an image capture directly to SVG?
![Capture.JPG]( "Capture.JPG")
In reply to You're right. But how do you… by Papibois
Sorry ! I just figured it out !
In reply to You're right. But how do you… by Papibois
Choose "Save As (desired mode)"
Then you can change the file type to SVG
Then re-import that SVG
Currently direct copy isn't supported (yet). Recently it was brought up as a feature request though.
In reply to You're right. But how do you… by Papibois
Save as (either mode)... -> SVG (default is PNG, options are PNG, PDF and SVG)
In reply to Save as (either mode)... ->… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you both. I get it.
![CaptureNV.JPG]( "CaptureNV.JPG")
That said, I'm not sure what Imaginatorium is looking for.
If it's to get a custom folder icon out of MuseScore he'll have to go through a program that creates .ico. files from these SVG or PNG captures.
In order to get this for example :
In reply to Thank you both. I get it… by Papibois
No, when I said "icon", I meant "icon" (the English word). Not "something microsoft calls an icon" - that's why I said I wanted it in SVG format.
In reply to No, when I said "icon", I… by Imaginatorium
Okay, I understand :)
I had indeed started from the meaning given by Microsoft