Re: Cropped output (à la -dpreview) possible in Finale and Sibelius

[Urs Liska]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 21:50:59 +0100
"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> wrote:

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> From: "Urs Liska" <address@hidden>
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 9:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Cropped output (à la -dpreview) possible in Finale and Sibelius
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> > Am 09.04.2013 18:26, schrieb Urs Liska:
> >> I never used Sibelius, and the last version of Finale I actually worked 
> >> with was 2001.
> >> Therefore I'd like to ask here before writing something inappropriately 
> >> negative about them ;-)
> >>
> >> Is it possible to output cropped output in .png or .pdf format from them, 
> >> just like -dpreview or lilypond-book do with LilyPond?
> >>
> >> When I used Finale one had to draw a rectangle with the mouse that then 
> >> was exported.
> >> Needless to say that this is a poor way to consistently line up music 
> >> fragments in a text document.
> >>
> >> TIA
> >> Urs
> >>
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> > Well, I just realized that my initial question isn't fully answered.
> > OK, I see that Sibelius supports cropped export (and it seems reasonable 
> > to assume Finale does too).
> > But do they also support cropped export to eps or pdf?
> > I'd rather expect them to, but I'd prefer to know for sure.
> >
> > Best
> > Urs
> 
> 
> Here's the output from Sib 7 at pdf and eps.
The pdf is interestingly cropped ;-) (while actually in A4 page size).
The eps is more or less what I asked for (except for the cut treble clef).

So thank you for the examples.
Urs

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> Phil Holmes