Colin Whyles Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 (edited) There are a couple of things required to import (File->Place) a PDF of music from MuseScore, a free music notation editor from musescore.org. Firstly, it is necessary to have the fonts used by MuseScore installed on your Mac. The important one for the music is Mscore text. However, every musical symbol is displaced from where it should be on the stave. Their horizontal positions are correct but are sometimes higher or lower than they should be. Each symbol is from the Mscore text font. The staves are represented as curves. It is possible that the curves are displaced rather than the symbols. A sample file, Riley's Cow Shed sample 1 is attached, along with the MuseScore fonts. For lyric text etc, MuseScore uses FreeSerif. The musical symbols that should have picked up the Mscore text font have been picked up by Lucida Grande. There does not seem to be a way of replacing Lucida Grande thoughout. The font manager shows it, but does not allow a substitution to be made. The text set in FreeSerif has also been substituted, but that is not as important. I manually edited the first two lines of music to fix the incorrect font and change it to Mscore text. Mscore fonts.zip Riley's Cow Shed sample 1.afpub Riley's Cow-Shed.pdf Edited June 3, 2019 by Colin Whyles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Whyles Posted June 3, 2019 Author Share Posted June 3, 2019 I am, by the way, using V1.7.0 of Publisher on a Macbook Pro running Mojave 10.14.6 Beta. Here is another example, an old song of mine called Star. It is only three lines of music, but if you look carefully there are many things out of place. Some have shifted quite badly. Once again, the fonts that should have been rendered as MScore text was instead rendered as Lucida Grande. I have corrected them my hand. It ought to be possible to have done this in the font manager, which doesn't seem to enable any management in this version of Publisher except for missing fonts. Text does seem to have been handled very well. The original PDF is also attached. Star.pdf Star sample.afpub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted June 14, 2019 Staff Share Posted June 14, 2019 Hi @Colin Whyles, The PDF you have attached are using MScore which you have not supplied. Can you attach it so we can have a look? Thanks, Gabe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Whyles Posted June 14, 2019 Author Share Posted June 14, 2019 I supplied the MScore fonts in the first posting. The MuseScore program with the fonts are available free from musescore.org. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted June 14, 2019 Staff Share Posted June 14, 2019 You haven't supplied MScore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Whyles Posted June 14, 2019 Author Share Posted June 14, 2019 Apologies, I don't know how they got missed. I thought I'f copied everything from inside Musescore. mscore.ttf mscore.otf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted June 18, 2019 Staff Share Posted June 18, 2019 Thanks. I've logged it with our developers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted February 17, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 17, 2020 We have made fixes/improvements to this area (PDF with musical notes font - Maestro - does not import correctly) of the program in the latest customer beta. If you would like to try these changes the beta software is available in the forum posts listed below. The latest beta builds are downloadable from links at the top of each of these beta forum posts. Affinity Publisher 1.8.0.556 for Windows Affinity Publisher 1.8.0.556 for Mac These betas install parallel, next to the release version (they do not overwrite your release) and so the fixes can be tried in the beta without affecting your normal workflow in the release version. Once these programs have been through a full beta process the change will be released in a future free 1.8.0 update/patch to all customers. This fix will also be made available in Designer and Photo in forthcoming 1.8.0.x beta builds Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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