export only png or Pdf? Wy not jpeg/jpg and gif extension?
Dear reader,
is there an opportunity to install or to get the possibility for export a score in jpeg/jpg or gif?
For any support thanks
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Those are not good formats for plain graphics like a score - they are bigger than necessary and/or lose clarity because of the compression applied. Those formats are optimized for photographs, not music. There shouldn't be any advantage to using JPG for music - only disadvantages.
That said, if you do have some unusual special case situation that requires use of JPG or GIF, there are any number of third-party graphics converters out there.
Also note that if you want a graphic with full quality, you'll very likely want to export to SVG instead.
In reply to Also note that if you want a… by jeetee
In personal experimentation I did on this yesterday, I discovered that the PNG file was better than the SVG. Not only is it smaller (much, much smaller), but the graphics showed up far more sharply when the image was imported to LibreOffice Text. The image from the SVG showed a sort of pixelated "stepping" to the curves of the musical slurs, whereas the PNG image had a smooth, crisp line. In most everything else, they appeared identical. After my experiment, I have no more use for SVG--it's PNG for me!
In reply to In personal experimentation… by Tongkam
That is very odd, I've compared PNG to SVG and the latter looks far superior, and at every zoom factor. Also MuseScore.com switched to display scores from PNG to SVG several months ago
In reply to In personal experimentation… by Tongkam
Could well be that the SVG we generate is fine but that LibreOdfice's support for SVG is not very good. Could also be that the artifacts seen are on screen only and would not appear in print.
It'd be pretty easy to implement, as Qt supplies all the conversions, and I once did a PR that ads jpg, see https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/3023, after it came up in https://musescore.org/en/node/177466. But back then it was decided not to do it.
Not sure whether Qt would handle animated gifs, if so, this might make up for an interesting case of a moving score...
BTW: I'd also have some code ready for gif import...
Thanks for your comment and suggestions.
With kind regards MD