PDF import

[dan 2]

I have imported a pdf music score and want to move sections of the music to different areas on the page.  I can select and move the music with all of its dynamics etc. but selected part of the staff will not select or move.  How can I group the sections of staffs and notes together to cut and move?

 

[firstdefence]

do you have the PDF you can upload?

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @dan 2.

The topic title should be about the thread topic, not about you! Please edit your original post to change the title from ‘new user’ to something like ‘Importing PDF music score’.

[R C-R]

Without seeing the PDF file there is no way to know exactly what the problem is or how to fix it, but from your description it sounds like the page may have just one staff object for all the lines of the score. If you do not want to upload the file, can you at least upload a screen shot of the Layers panel with a (or the) staff object selected?

[dan 2]

Attached is a music pdf

 

 

Currents - Cello.pdf

[John Rostron]

It would seem that everything on your pdf is an individual layer. However, I can click and drag around the top stave of music and move it around the artboard. What do you mean by "selected part of the staff"?

Could you give a screenshot or recording of what you are trying to do?

It might seem obvious, but would it not be easier to do this in your score-writing software?

John

[MEB]

Hi dan 2,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
The staff is composed by five lines (objects) that run across all width of the page. You can't copy just the section you want without breaking (or shrinking) them first. I believe this is what you are trying to do. Can you confirm it please?

[dan 2]

Very helpful.  Thanks.  My goal was to select a group of measures and place them at random locations around the page.  I think your suggestions are correct.  The easiest will be to create the specific sections in the music system and then export them to Affinity as pdfs. 

[firstdefence]

It might be easier to work from one page at a time and make assets of the musical elements. Assets can be created in Affinity Designer  which is where I did the assets file I've attached

Violoncello example assets.afassets

Basically I zoomed right in, this made it easy to select each element.

If I wanted to make an asset of the Base Clef I would select The staff and two dots then group those elements to make a base clef group, if I didn't group them I would get 3 assets comprising the base clef staff and two dots, but because I have grouped them, the group is taken as a single asset. The same method is used to create the minim by selecting the notehead and the staff and grouping them to make a minim asset.