Working with PDFs in notation—exporting, sharing, scanning, and marking up scores.
PDF-BatchStitch 1.7.0 is now available from Notation Central. The update adds sequential page numbers with placement options, headers & footers, and a "Don't stitch" mode that processes every file in a folder separately.
SheetCue, a music reader app, has you draw the measures, define the repeats and cuts, and it drives a timed, measure-by-measure practice flow from your own PDFs or photos. The idea also opens a bigger question: the vendor lock-in that traps annotated score libraries inside a single app.
Bibliome is a new Mac app that files, OCRs, and answers plain-language questions about your whole PDF library — scores, method books, and IMSLP downloads — using AI that runs entirely on your machine, with no cloud in sight.
PDF-Counter 1.1.0 is now available from Notation Central. The update adds a Columns dialog with ten selectable data fields — including page size, file size, dates, and more — and names the output file after the scanned folder.
A small but meaningful update to the PDF Batch Utilities ensures markings survive processing, improves counting reliability with "incremental" PDFs, and adds a clever new shortcut in PDF-BatchScale.
The PDF Batch Utilities for music printing get their biggest update yet: native Apple Silicon, codesigning, new icons, bookmarks in output files, bug fixes, and a brand new app — PDF-Counter.
All the Black Friday deals in the world of music notation software and related technology, so you can make the most of your holiday spending budget, and still have plenty of time to take advantage of some serious savings.
The last in a series of several articles about the end of Finale's support. How to archive your work, update the Finale files, and exporting to MusicXML and PDF. And, some thoughts about alternatives to Finale.
Dorico has a remarkable set of features to assist with producing PDF files that are reliably organized, but you need to know how to finesse the settings to get a consistent set of results.
Using PDF Expert and its new Copilot AI assistant to wade through thousands of pages of the Dorico and Sibelius references, with promising results.
