Steve Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Congratulations on creating this app. I just started testing it and it shows great promise. I look forward to working through the Beta release. I usually use Pixelmator (or Ps) to open and crop a pdf of a piece of sheet music to prepare for publishing it in a document. It opens fine in PXM with transparent background but in Afp musical elements are misplaced (key signature and notes) and no transparency. Are there limits presently or other criteria a pdf must meet for opening correctlly? Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 PDF has a huge specification and we don't support all of it. In particular, we don't support embedded fonts or Type 3 fonts, and we rely on Unicode mappings to extract meaningful text. I seem to remember some sheet music programs use fonts that are beyond our current capabilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted April 19, 2015 Author Share Posted April 19, 2015 Thanks Dave. I understand. For these particular PDFs my workaround is to open them in Preview and export as TIF, JPG or PNG all of which opened fine in AP. I don't need to edit the musical text or lyrics, just crop and move some elements around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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