What's new in PDFtoMusic 1.5.0
Dec 6, 2014
- New features and improvements:
- Better management of chord targetting, recognition and storage
- Measure selection in scroll mode
- Keyboard shortcuts to control music rendering
- Exported page range selection (PRO only)
- Signal tone at the end of document computation (several possible tones)
- Measure number display in scroll mode
- Management of measure start repeat symbol
- New option to loop play selection range or the whole piece
- When displaying the about box, search for an updated version of the application
- Better management for shapenotes
- Management of Mensurstrich systems with dotted lines
- MP3 export, including lyrics
- Ogg export
- Improvement of staff connection between pages
- Direct communication between Melody Assistant, Harmony Assistant and PDFtoMusic
- crossed circle symbol recognition
- New selection areas
- Better management of tuplets on rests
- Better management of font glyphs out of character map
- New option to ignore multiple rests
- Improvement in grouping brace fragments
- Better targetting of group names
- Possible to ignore or modify a time signature change
- First German version
- First Dutch version
- New manageme nt of PDF with non-embedded fonts
- Dynamics are better assigned to their staff
- Management of tuplets with incomplete brackets
- Clean denial of PDF files that contains large scanned pictures
- Finding and processing of rehearsal marks
- Better management of arpeggio symbols
- Management of staff names written vertically
- Recognition of circled digits (string number)
- Better determination of instrument related to a staff in a group (bracket or brace)
- Better determination of instrument on organ keyboard staves
- Fixes and changes:
- VirtualSinger voices could be silent when playing a selection range located near the end of the score
- Possible to change a font from "Music font" to "Text with optical recognition"
- Possible to force a font to "Music font"
- Fixed possible confusion between bar numbers and time signature with unknown bottom number
- Fixed possible confusion between bar numbers and lyrics
- Fixed key signature change misplacement when empty bars are present
- Fixed lyrics export in .kar
- Fixed management of cautionary key signature
- Fixed confusion between Capo (capodastro - guitar clip) indicator and "Da Capo"
- Fixed MusicXML saving problem in case of multiple brackets and braces
- Fixed MusicXML export of imposed measure array
- Fixed user break
- Fixed singer language display
- Fixed management of tremolo on stem
- Fixed management of broken slurs
- Fixed path assembly module
- Fixed preference file conflict between pro and standard version
- Fixed "Save As" when saving under the original name
- Some special characters in the embedded font names could trouble the MusicXML export
- Windows: The document icon in the upper left corner of the window could disappear
New in PDFtoMusic 1.4.2c (Oct 16, 2013)
- Improvements:
- Document writing at the end of the recognition process has been speeded up
- Fixes:
- Fixed glyph management
- Fixed editing of staff following
- Some options of the File menu like "Open PDF file w/ editor" remained active even when no document was loaded. This could lead to a crash
- Fixed possible crash when resizing document window
- Fixed dynamics position calculation
- Source files have been processed by a code analyzer. Some minor non-conformities have been found and fixed.
New in PDFtoMusic 1.4.2 (Oct 8, 2013)
- News and Improvements:
- In scroll mode, position in the score and automatic scrolling have been implemented
- Tremolo recognition on single notes
- Improvement of scores made of a single-line drum staves
- Fixes and Changes:
- Slurs on two notes not consecutive of same pitch could be incorrectly considered as ties.
- Fixed some elementary drawings
- WIndows Vista/7/8: Possible crash when sending an e-mail from the program
New in PDFtoMusic 1.4.1 (Jul 31, 2013)
- News and Improvements:
- PDF files can be printed directly from the program
- PDF files can be opened with an external editor
- Better versionning of the OCR database, enabling to update more easily this base alone
- Dutch version of the GUI
- Fixes and Changes:
- Select an object behind an icon
- Beam detection
- Time signature detection
- Fixed crash when playing after getting a file from a Kooplet text search
- Processing of staff lines drawn with characters has been reactivated
- Windows: crash when processing a file that has % characters in its name
New in PDFtoMusic 1.4.0 (Apr 20, 2013)
- News and Improvements:
- New floating window: Mixer
- New floating window: Virtual Keyboard
- Quick opening of the current document in the score editor of your choice.
- Page change on Pg Up & Pg Down keyboard keys
- Specific processing of thin beams ("Correction" menu)
- Specific processing of note stems drawn using curves ("Correction" menu)
- Better management of slurs across end of line
- Lyrics language displayed through a small flag
- Improvement of language automatic recognition
- Improvement in text spacing recognition
- Optional display of file complete path in the window title
- New setting for playing the score automatically after processing
- Independant key signature change on staves
- Corrections are applied to all selected objects of the same type
- Now possible to select objects through discontinuous selection, exclusion of a selection area, selection of one or several staves
- Edit menu: delete changes on selected objects
- Edit menu: select all, deselect all
- Improvement of Da Capo management and better export
- Management of 7-shapes Fasola notation
- Improvement in shape note recognition
- Improvement of title, composer and remarks recognition
- Improvement in speed for module: staff following from one system to the next
- Improvement in speed for module: music symbols optical recognition
- Improvement in ottava symbols processing
- Management of fontless documents like the PDF files generated by iWriteMusic
- Better processing of information written outside the staff area
- Virtual Singer voices (SATB) are better determined and set
- Better processing of staff group name
- A new options enables to display measure numbers and to spot measures that are never played (it's generally due to a mistake in break symbols)
- Now possible to force the list of measures to play
- When compressed MusicXML format (.mxl) is used, pictures of the document are now managed in a standard way, and therefore imported by programs that can process such embedded pictures (PDFtoMusic Pro only)
- Miscellaneous PDF-specific graphic settings are now calculated: stem line width, staff line width, grace note size, etc. These settings are exported in MusicXML (PDFtoMusic Pro only)
- Shape-note notation management module has been completely rewritten
- Better management of incomplete measures (anacrusis, upbeats) before or after repeat start and end barlines.
- Management of staves with different time signatures
- Management of implied tuplets through rhythmic pattern recognition
- Improvement of chord diagrams recognition
- Improvement of lyrics and note association
- New algorithm for grace note tracking and processing
- Better management of double-sharp symbols
- Recognition of a new ornament : staccatissimo.
- Improvement of C (Tenor) clef spotting
- Improvement of distinction between key signature and note accidentals.
- Management of dotted notes with double stem
- Better processing of stemless notes
- Better spotting of dotted barlines
- Management of tempo text mentions made of several words
- Better management of arpeggio symbols
- Better recognition of lyrics language
- In global setup, default corrections that will be applied when a PDF file is loaded can be selected
- Better management of numbered parts (endings) at the beginning of a line
- On documents with several lyric lines, when break symbols are missing or wrong, break symbols can be automatically created to match the number of repeats.
- New option in the export to create a separate file by part (PDFtoMusic Pro only)
- Fixes and Changes:
- Relation between file types and opening application
- Management of TrueType CID type 2 Fonts
- Fixed crash on corrupted bitmap pictures
- Fixed crash when a long line of text is considered as the lyrics syllable related to a note
- Fixed icon positions when settings are reset to default values
- Chord line management when conflicting with bar numbers
- Fixed problem when saving instruments
- Online search for free PDF score files using Kooplet has been improved, and the quantity of indexed files drastically increased.
- Some combinations of break symbols and numbered parts (endings) could result in an infinite play.
- Fixed a problem in shared lyrics recognition.
New in PDFtoMusic 1.2.1 (Apr 29, 2010)
- New:
- Management of forced bar numbers
- Management of incomplete time signatures
- PDFtoMusic Pro: Command-line access (without GUI)
- PDFtoMusic Pro: Batch processing: Messages can be saved in a log file
- PDFtoMusic Pro: Expert mode: Maximum grace note size setting
- Improvements:
- General improvement of musical or alphabetical characters
- Better management of double barlines
- Improvement of numbered endings management
- Fixes:
- Page number in the drawer
- Dots localisation problem
- On some files, accidentals and grace notes recognition
- MusicXML export: "