b13 wrote:Really, i think, there are good ideas within. Thank you.
Glad to help! 
Another possibility is to get the competitive crossgrade to Sibelius 7, since (a) it has
elaborate music notation typesetting capabilities and (b) it costs less than Adobe Acrobat XI Standard . . .
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NOTE: In the US, Musician's Friend sells the Sibelius 7 Competitive Crossgrade, and they nearly always have a discount promotion, which is the way I got it, and this usually maps to the price being approximately $150 (US), as contrasted to the MSRP of$199 (US). And NOTION 3 or NOTION 4 qualifies as the competing product, where you just need the serial number for your version of NOTION. You can continue to use NOTION, since all the AVID folks care about is that you are the legal owner of the competing product, which is what the NOTION serial number proves, and it is all done online without needing to send anything like the first page of the user manual or whatever. And this is the way I got Finale, which I also do not use. My thinking at the time was that I kept reading about Finale and Sibelius, so I thought it made a bit of sense to get them just to have a better understanding of a few posts to this FORUM, although as I recall one of them (Finale, I think) will generate multipart harmony, which might be interesting, since at least in theory I can import and export via MusicXML, which might be an easy way to generate harmony parts automagically. However, neither of them do what NOTION does, which overall makes it a great way to spend $300 (US) for nothing, but I was young and had no sense . . . ]
The drawback is that Sibelius 7 might be useful
only for the music notation stuff, while in contrast you can use Adobe Acrobat Standard to make an eBook . . .
I did a quick experiment with Sibelius 7.1.3, which is the current free upgrade to the competitive crossgrade that I got last year, and this is the PDF file I was able to create, where it is important to understand that I have used Sibelius 7 for about 15 minutes, hence am a bit surprised that I was able to do this . . .
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NOTE: The page numbers are correct, but I did not reset the measure numbers, so the measure numbers for the second song ("Alien Mist") are a continuation of the measure numbers for the first song ("Alien Designs"). There is an option not to show measure numbers, which is one way to solve this problem, but there probably is a way to reset the measure numbers, perhaps by doing some type of break or whatever . . . ]
"Alien Music Book" (Jules the Pantomime Wonderhorse™) -- Sibelius 7 Print Version -- PDFThis is the way I did it:
(1) I exported both NOTION 4 (64-bit) scores as MusicXML files, where one was "Alien Designs.xml" and the other was "Alien Mist.xml" . . .
(2) I started Sibelius 7 and did a "Open . . . " from the File menu, followed by browsing to the respective MusicXML file, which creates a separate score based on the MusicXML in the file. And I did this for both files, which created two separate scores in total . . .
(3) Then I added some blank measures to the first score at the end; inserted a page break to cause the blank measures to start on a new page; and then I switched to the second score; did a select all; copied everything to the clipboard; switched back to the first file; and then pasted the second score into the blank measures starting on a new page (via the page break) . . .
The only problem was the the title of the score was the name of the first song, but I changed it to "Alien Music" and then added subtitles for each song, which worked nicely . . .
Regarding page numbering, Sibelius 7 is very adamant about the first page not having a page number, as well as the page numbers being on the outside at the top, where the convention is that right-facing pages have odd numbers while left-facing pages have even numbers, hence as it is formatted, the first page will be on the right if you open a book, and pages 2 and 3 are the next left-facing and right-facing pair of pages, which makes a bit of sense if you think about it for a while. The Sibelius 7 reference material states that this is the standard way of formatting music for print, which is fine with me, and if one is working with sheet music, it makes a bit of sense not to need to look at the bottom of a page to find the page number . . .
THOUGHTSIf I can do this without knowing much of anything about Sibelius 7, then based on the general view that Sibelius 7 has deep and rich functionality with respect to formatting music notation specifically for printing as sheet music, it is entirely possible that with a bit more knowledge of the way Sibelius 7 works, there probably are more options with respect to formatting and printing . . .
If your book is going to be only music notation for a set of songs, then Sibelius 7 might work nicely, and the competitive crossgrade costs approximately $150 (US) less than Adobe Acrobat XI Standard . . .
On the other hand, if your book is going to have text, then there are other ways to do typesetting, and it also depends on the operating system platform (Mac vs. Windows) and the various applications you have installed on your computer for doing wordprocessing activities . . .
I do everything on the Mac, and I have Pages, but Pages does not import PDF files, so it is a bit useless for typesetting music books that have music notation . . .
Microsoft Word is available for the Mac and for Windows, and it probably has the ability to import PDF files, although importing PDF files might be an advanced feature or might require a third-part add-on tool. I stopped using Microsoft software over a decade ago, so all I can do is guess, but Pages (Apple) is not the swiftest application for advanced wordprocessing, and while I do not use Microsoft software on the Mac, I do a bit of typesetting using more recent versions of Microsoft Word for clients on Windows machines that they provide, hence my guess that there should be a practical way to import a PDF file to a Microsoft Word document, presuming of course that you have Microsoft Word . . .
SUMMARYThis makes two ways to solve the problem, and there should be other ways, where one might presume that the overall goal is to be able to control the page numbers and to format a nice book, which certainly should be something that can be done in a practical way that does not cost too much, which is fabulous . . .
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