I would like to know if it's possible to print just one or two tunes from my tune book rather than all of them. Some I already have so I don't want to print them twice but I would like to keep them in the book for reference. Can the tunes be pasted into a word document? I have tried but all I get is a black rectangle. Hope you don't delete my question, I hope this is the right place to put it.
I could be wong, but I think if you go to your tune book, click on the tune you want, then click on download, you'll see a link to the sheet music, which you can open and print.
The problem is the font is really small on a lot of them. I've had much better luck exporting the tune book to Five Line Skink for Mac and/or abc4win for the PC....and then just printing what I want...in the size I want.......
The .gif file should import right into MS word. You might have to save it to your harddrive first. If pasting doesn't work, there should be an option in the top menu of Word... something like Insert>>Picture>>Image from File. Once its in the document you should be able to click the edge of the image and stretch it out (holding the shift key to keep the right proportions) to fill your page.
I tried using a photoshop macro to increase the size of the sheet music off this site and smooth it out. Most people don't have photoshop though.
A better trick I discovered is to use the Opera web browser, which has a nice zoom feature. You can zoom in on the dots, hit F11 to enter full screen mode, hit "Print Screen" (which saves the screen to your clipboard), and then paste it (ctrl+V) into an image program or Word.
As an iMac user perhaps I have a different set of tools to play with; but why not go back to the tune through the search facility, and just print out the one ? Personally I've stopped adding to my tunebook here, just print out any I want to keep and put them in a file; I do find it necessary to use the "Print preview " facility and enlarge to make the manuscript fill across the page, to help my ageing eyesight.
To print the sets you open up an ABC compilation file and right-click on a tune and click on "add to print list" for each one in the set. Then under Tools you select Print Sheet Music and then Print Tune List and they'll all come out on a page or several pages. They'll be in alphabetic order, so if you want a set of three in a particular order, prefix the tune titles with a number and they'll be sorted in that order. If you've got a copy of Adobe Acrobat (full version) you can print direct to that to create a pdf file.
I'll just add a voice for just taking the ABC and pasting it into ABC Navigator. It takes a little getting used to but:
A it's free
B you can, with a bit of effort, get really nice prints from it
C you can see the dots updating themselves as you edit a tune
D as said already, you can define sets
ABCmus is better on rhythms, but in most ways, especially the dots, I prefer ABCnavigator
If you mean print the set of tunes in your tunebook on this site, then go to - Tunebook - Print - Sheetmusic, you'll see all your tunes in a long list.
I go along with bc_box_player's view though about using ABC Navigator 2, the notation is much easier to read. Import the abc file to the program and print from there. You won't be disappointed with ABC Navigator 2, the notes and staves are very precise, love it!
There's something to be said for not printing out the tunes but instead to copy them longhand onto manuscript paper. It will fix them better in the brain.
And it probably won't take all that much longer than fussing about with printers and various applications. But then, I'm dreadfully old-fashioned. If I could figure out a way of posting onto this website with a quill pen I'd probably do it
When you look up a tune here you miss out on all the posted variations by just clicking on the ABC or the Sheet Music tab. You need to click on the Download tab to get the ABC as a file with all the variations. Then view it in ABC Navigator or whatever you're using.
concertin.net to print out sets works only if you delete all the X:## tune numbers, with the exception of the first one.
A disadvantage is, that it does not work properly when the sheet needs more than 1 page of print out...Maybe that's an incompatability problem between UK/US/DIN paper formats only.
I like the concertina.net style much better than the one here which is difficult to read as some beams are 'hidden' by one of the five lines.
Thank you Swisspiper! I've been stymied for years on the concertina tune-a-tron converter from some abc sites, and now I know why!
I just was able to convert a tune from the abc sectionalised web index - never could from that site before you told us the trick...
Printing tunes from the tune book
Printing tunes from the tune book
I would like to know if it's possible to print just one or two tunes from my tune book rather than all of them. Some I already have so I don't want to print them twice but I would like to keep them in the book for reference. Can the tunes be pasted into a word document? I have tried but all I get is a black rectangle. Hope you don't delete my question, I hope this is the right place to put it.
# Posted on February 12th 2007 by Allyson Doyle
Re: Printing tunes from the tune book
I could be wong, but I think if you go to your tune book, click on the tune you want, then click on download, you'll see a link to the sheet music, which you can open and print.
# Posted on February 12th 2007 by John Culhane
Re: Printing tunes from the tune book
Wrong. I could be wrong. But try it and let me know.
# Posted on February 12th 2007 by John Culhane
Re: Printing tunes from the tune book
The problem is the font is really small on a lot of them. I've had much better luck exporting the tune book to Five Line Skink for Mac and/or abc4win for the PC....and then just printing what I want...in the size I want.......
# Posted on February 12th 2007 by FiddleFancy
Re: Printing tunes from the tune book
The .gif file should import right into MS word. You might have to save it to your harddrive first. If pasting doesn't work, there should be an option in the top menu of Word... something like Insert>>Picture>>Image from File. Once its in the document you should be able to click the edge of the image and stretch it out (holding the shift key to keep the right proportions) to fill your page.
I tried using a photoshop macro to increase the size of the sheet music off this site and smooth it out. Most people don't have photoshop though.
A better trick I discovered is to use the Opera web browser, which has a nice zoom feature. You can zoom in on the dots, hit F11 to enter full screen mode, hit "Print Screen" (which saves the screen to your clipboard), and then paste it (ctrl+V) into an image program or Word.
# Posted on February 12th 2007 by polkageist
Re: Printing tunes from the tune book
I find some of the GIF's don't read well if expanded in Word.
I use ABC Navigator 2, which is a free download and prints clean sheets. You can also arrange tunes into sets.
# Posted on February 12th 2007 by bc_box_player
Re: Printing with ABC Navigator2
Hi,
how do you print the sets?
# Posted on February 12th 2007 by brotherstorm
Re: Printing tunes from the tune book
As an iMac user perhaps I have a different set of tools to play with; but why not go back to the tune through the search facility, and just print out the one ? Personally I've stopped adding to my tunebook here, just print out any I want to keep and put them in a file; I do find it necessary to use the "Print preview " facility and enlarge to make the manuscript fill across the page, to help my ageing eyesight.
# Posted on February 12th 2007 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Printing tunes from the tune book
To print the sets you open up an ABC compilation file and right-click on a tune and click on "add to print list" for each one in the set. Then under Tools you select Print Sheet Music and then Print Tune List and they'll all come out on a page or several pages. They'll be in alphabetic order, so if you want a set of three in a particular order, prefix the tune titles with a number and they'll be sorted in that order. If you've got a copy of Adobe Acrobat (full version) you can print direct to that to create a pdf file.
# Posted on February 12th 2007 by RichardB
Re: Printing tunes from the tune book
Sorry, I should clarify I'm talking about ABC navigator here.
# Posted on February 12th 2007 by RichardB
Re: Printing tunes from the tune book
I'll just add a voice for just taking the ABC and pasting it into ABC Navigator. It takes a little getting used to but:
A it's free
B you can, with a bit of effort, get really nice prints from it
C you can see the dots updating themselves as you edit a tune
D as said already, you can define sets
ABCmus is better on rhythms, but in most ways, especially the dots, I prefer ABCnavigator
# Posted on February 12th 2007 by Alex Wilding
Re: Printing tunes from the tune book
"how do you print the sets?"
If you mean print the set of tunes in your tunebook on this site, then go to - Tunebook - Print - Sheetmusic, you'll see all your tunes in a long list.
I go along with bc_box_player's view though about using ABC Navigator 2, the notation is much easier to read. Import the abc file to the program and print from there. You won't be disappointed with ABC Navigator 2, the notes and staves are very precise, love it!
# Posted on February 12th 2007 by Tigermoth
Re: Printing tunes from the tune book
There's something to be said for not printing out the tunes but instead to copy them longhand onto manuscript paper. It will fix them better in the brain.
And it probably won't take all that much longer than fussing about with printers and various applications. But then, I'm dreadfully old-fashioned. If I could figure out a way of posting onto this website with a quill pen I'd probably do it
# Posted on February 12th 2007 by Trevor Jennings
Re: Printing tunes from the tune book
If you could see how messy and difficult to read my transcriptions to manuscript are, you'd reconsider.
# Posted on February 12th 2007 by Tigermoth
Re: Printing tunes from the tune book
what I do is copy the ABC and transfer it over to concertina.net tune-o-tron and convert to dots and print from there...much cleaner copy
# Posted on February 12th 2007 by Sunnybear
Re: Printing tunes from the tune book
When you look up a tune here you miss out on all the posted variations by just clicking on the ABC or the Sheet Music tab. You need to click on the Download tab to get the ABC as a file with all the variations. Then view it in ABC Navigator or whatever you're using.
# Posted on February 12th 2007 by RichardB
Re: Printing tunes from the tune book
Or you could get the ABCs from each tune and plug them into the concertina.net converter (http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html) It prints out both gif and pdf files.
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# Posted on February 12th 2007 by mikeyes
Re: Printing tunes from the tune book
concertin.net to print out sets works only if you delete all the X:## tune numbers, with the exception of the first one.
A disadvantage is, that it does not work properly when the sheet needs more than 1 page of print out...Maybe that's an incompatability problem between UK/US/DIN paper formats only.
I like the concertina.net style much better than the one here which is difficult to read as some beams are 'hidden' by one of the five lines.
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by swisspiper
Re: Printing tunes from the tune book
Thank you Swisspiper! I've been stymied for years on the concertina tune-a-tron converter from some abc sites, and now I know why!
I just was able to convert a tune from the abc sectionalised web index - never could from that site before you told us the trick...
# Posted on February 14th 2007 by vonnieestes