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PDFtoMusic
displays Adobe PDF files as documents. Several documents can be loaded
simultaneously.
General points
Toolbar
Drawer
Saving files
General points
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While loading and processing a PDF file, analysis progress is shown
through icons. You can cancel the processing at any point by hitting
the "Esc" key or by closing the window.
Once the analysis is complete, the PDF drawing is displayed in a
document window.
Toolbar
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The toolbar in the upper part of this window enables you to
play music, navigate within the score, pause and restart playback and
adjust volume or tempo (playback speed).
Tip: to quickly start or stop playback, you can use the space bar.
If the document contains several pages, the following icons enable you to
switch to the previous or next page. You can also use the vertical
scrollbar to move through the whole document.
The next icons change the display scale of the document.
The "info" icon displays information about the document. These details
are extracted from the PDF file: title, document author, creation date,
as well as the character fonts embedded in this document.
If the Adobe PDF document include lyrics, the "bird" icon is present.
Click this icon to activate the virtual singer before starting
playback. This default setting can be changed in Preferences,
"Document" section.
The "export" icon exports the music piece in the current format
specified in general preferences, "Export" section. But you can also
select another format from the file
selector, by typing in the matching extension. For instance, to export
in Wave format, end the filename with ".WAV".
You can cancel the export at any time by hitting the Esc key.
Right-clicking (or Shift + click) on the toolbar changes its appearance.
Drawer
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If your document contains several pages, the last icon opens and closes
the drawer. A drawer is a secondary window, linked to the main one,
that shows a general preview of the document. Click a thumbnail to jump
directly to the selected page.
If errors have been found, a warning sign is displayed, specifying the
number of errors detected on this page.
Saving files
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When amendments have been applied to the document, as for instance a
change in the instruments, volume, or music symbols recognition, you
can save these changes so that they will be preserved when loading the
file again later.
PDFtoMusic lets you choose beween two modes that can be set up from
general preferences.
1- Save changes in the Adobe PDF file itself
Data is preserved in the Adobe PDF file. A backup copy of this file is
performed. This doesn't affect the way this PDF file is displayed by
other programs.
The advantage to this mode is that, when you send the file to somebody
else, your changes are carried along.
2- Save changes in a separate file
The original Adobe PDF file is not modified, and the data are stored in
a separate file, created in the "Correction" subfolder of your user
file space.
Please note that, in this mode, you can still generate a PDF file in
which your amendments are embedded by using the "File > Save as..."
menu option.
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