Don't know whether this is any help, but rather than copying gifs into Word or whatever, you could download the abc version - then paste your required selections into one of the online abc converters (such as the one on concertina.net).
You can do what you want with BarFly (an ABC reader/player/editor). You DO have to get the purchased version to do what you want to do, though. I've done it many times - you just need to export as PDF and then print the PDF file. Oh yeah, you DO have to download the ABCs and put them into BarFly first. The Session allows you to download them all at once, though, so this is pretty easy.
There is a way to do it with just the gifs, though you may end up preferring the abc method.
You need to be running Firefox. It may work with other browsers - I don't know.
You choose "print sheetmusic" from the tunebook
Then choose "print preview" in the Firefox File menu
This will take some time if you have a lot of tunes, so be patient.
Then you choose the page orientation you prefer - I go for !Landscape" so I can use large print.
Then you choose from the "scale" tab until the tunes are the size you want - 175% or 200% in "landscape" usually ensures one per page
This is not meant to be a flip answer, as found on that other discussion; but if I only needed one or two tunes from my tunebook, I'd copy the ABC or notation by hand, for the additional practice it would give me.
Transcribing the ABC into notation by hand would help to embed the tune in the brain.
And, in a hundred years or so from now, the discovery of your manuscript tune-book could be a wonderful historical find.
HAve you gone to the website "The Old Music Project"? It has Oneill's 1850, Full O'Carolans, and a bunch of other trad music. And its free, unless you choose to donate to the operation of the site. The Group running this together is a not-for-profit.
I have their CD whic his nice because I have it loaded on my machine at home and don't have to do the google.
It produces output in printer ready format. A Word of caution. It is a work in progress. The 'bones' are generally spot on with O'neills. The chords where they put them in are more of a road map than arrangement. Doesn't matter much though excpet to Box, piano and guitar players
Thanks everybody, I will look into some of these options when next build up a batch for printing.
From everyones replies it does sound as though there is no way to do this directly from the tunebook, I had thought I might be missing something blindingly obvious, turns out I did miss a load of options but nothing to make me feel as stupid as I have ion many another occasion
Using Firefox open your tune book gifs
Drag/select any tune or range of tunes
Right click
Select "Save image as"
Now that the tune is on your hard disc you can tweak it with drawing software or simply print it out.
HTH
Bren's method works well enough. There's another way as well: most browsers will allow you to view an image in a separate window - on Firefox (under OSX, at least), it's CTRL-click to bring up a menu, select "View Image", and then print that, using whatever scaling you want to do.
zippydw, I'm not ignoring your question (I assume it was for me), I'm just not sure I understand it. I don't own a scanner, but the tunebook I'm talking about is the one on the.session.org account, not a physical book.
Open the tunebook as normal using the Print :Sheetmusic button.
Depending on your browser, use the View Menu or right-click context menu to View Page Source. You need to be able to edit this source, which may require cut/paste into another text editor, again depending on your set-up.
Each tune has a title and image, on two separate lines, embedded between "h2" and "img" tags.
Edit this file by deleting unwanted tunes (2 lines per tune).
printing selections from a tunebook
printing selections from a tunebook
Hello,
Is it possible to print a subset of a tunebook without resorting to copying the gifs into word or similar?
I've never been able to work out an easy way to do this, but generally don't want to print out my entire tunebook.
cheers - chris
# Posted on February 19th 2009 by ramblingpitchfork
Re: printing selections from a tunebook
Don't know whether this is any help, but rather than copying gifs into Word or whatever, you could download the abc version - then paste your required selections into one of the online abc converters (such as the one on concertina.net).
# Posted on February 19th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: printing selections from a tunebook
You can do what you want with BarFly (an ABC reader/player/editor). You DO have to get the purchased version to do what you want to do, though. I've done it many times - you just need to export as PDF and then print the PDF file. Oh yeah, you DO have to download the ABCs and put them into BarFly first. The Session allows you to download them all at once, though, so this is pretty easy.
Pat
# Posted on February 19th 2009 by plunk111
Re: printing selections from a tunebook
There is a way to do it with just the gifs, though you may end up preferring the abc method.
You need to be running Firefox. It may work with other browsers - I don't know.
You choose "print sheetmusic" from the tunebook
Then choose "print preview" in the Firefox File menu
This will take some time if you have a lot of tunes, so be patient.
Then you choose the page orientation you prefer - I go for !Landscape" so I can use large print.
Then you choose from the "scale" tab until the tunes are the size you want - 175% or 200% in "landscape" usually ensures one per page
Then "print" only the pages you want
# Posted on February 19th 2009 by Bren
Re: printing selections from a tunebook
This is not meant to be a flip answer, as found on that other discussion; but if I only needed one or two tunes from my tunebook, I'd copy the ABC or notation by hand, for the additional practice it would give me.
# Posted on February 19th 2009 by Greg the Piano Tuner
Re: printing selections from a tunebook
Transcribing the ABC into notation by hand would help to embed the tune in the brain.
And, in a hundred years or so from now, the discovery of your manuscript tune-book could be a wonderful historical find.
# Posted on February 19th 2009 by lazyhound
Re: printing selections from a tunebook
HAve you gone to the website "The Old Music Project"? It has Oneill's 1850, Full O'Carolans, and a bunch of other trad music. And its free, unless you choose to donate to the operation of the site. The Group running this together is a not-for-profit.
I have their CD whic his nice because I have it loaded on my machine at home and don't have to do the google.
It produces output in printer ready format. A Word of caution. It is a work in progress. The 'bones' are generally spot on with O'neills. The chords where they put them in are more of a road map than arrangement. Doesn't matter much though excpet to Box, piano and guitar players
# Posted on February 19th 2009 by zippydw
Re: printing selections from a tunebook
Thanks everybody, I will look into some of these options when next build up a batch for printing.
From everyones replies it does sound as though there is no way to do this directly from the tunebook, I had thought I might be missing something blindingly obvious, turns out I did miss a load of options but nothing to make me feel as stupid as I have ion many another occasion
- Chris
# Posted on February 19th 2009 by ramblingpitchfork
Re: printing selections from a tunebook
? am I missing something. Do you have a scanner to image your tune book pages?
# Posted on February 19th 2009 by zippydw
Re: printing selections from a tunebook
Using Firefox open your tune book gifs
Drag/select any tune or range of tunes
Right click
Select "Save image as"
Now that the tune is on your hard disc you can tweak it with drawing software or simply print it out.
HTH
# Posted on February 19th 2009 by deeor
Re: printing selections from a tunebook
Bren's method works well enough. There's another way as well: most browsers will allow you to view an image in a separate window - on Firefox (under OSX, at least), it's CTRL-click to bring up a menu, select "View Image", and then print that, using whatever scaling you want to do.
I like Greg's method, though.
# Posted on February 20th 2009 by Jon Kiparsky
Re: printing selections from a tunebook
Thanks again everybody,
zippydw, I'm not ignoring your question (I assume it was for me), I'm just not sure I understand it. I don't own a scanner, but the tunebook I'm talking about is the one on the.session.org account, not a physical book.
- chris
# Posted on February 20th 2009 by ramblingpitchfork
Re: printing selections from a tunebook
Geeky method requiring just a text editor :-
Open the tunebook as normal using the Print :Sheetmusic button.
Depending on your browser, use the View Menu or right-click context menu to View Page Source. You need to be able to edit this source, which may require cut/paste into another text editor, again depending on your set-up.
Each tune has a title and image, on two separate lines, embedded between "h2" and "img" tags.
Edit this file by deleting unwanted tunes (2 lines per tune).
Important: Add the line
<base href="http://www.thesession.org">;
following the head tag (i.e 4 lines down from the top).
Save the file with an extension .html e.g. tunes.html (if you are using notepad, be sure to Save as type: All files).
Open the file using your browser, from the File menu, and Print as usual.
Well, I said it was geeky, Apologies for any errors in text.
# Posted on February 20th 2009 by Rick Payman