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Changes to PDFtoMusic Pro: most recent first

Changes 1.1 to 1.2 (April 23, 2009)

New

  1. The toolbar can now be customized.
  2. A folder of sample PDF files is now provided.
  3. It is now possible to exclude break symbols (segno, coda...) from the processing.

Improvements

  1. Better export of grace notes (appoggiaturas) in MusicXML.
  2. Better recognition and export of tremolos.
  3. Better management of repeat start and end symbols.
  4. Better management of drum staves, especially on documents that only include such staves.
  5. .myr export now manages metronome.
  6. Verse number in lyrics are now better managed.
  7. Better recognition for half notes.
  8. Slashed grace notes are now located and exported.
  9. Better management of whole bar rests.
  10. All actions available from menus can be activated through an icon, and vice versa.

Fixes

  1. Fixed performance of some kind of drum staves.
  2. Fixed a small problem of file compatibility between PDFtoMusic and Melody Player.
  3. Fixed problem in beam recognition.
  4. Crash on embedded Adobe Type 1 fonts with composite diacritics.

Changes 1.0.4 to 1.1 (September 8, 2008)

New

  1. MusicXML 2.0 export is now supported as a global preference.

    To use this new feature, go to the Settings menu and select Preferences. Click on MusicXML and select the option to "Use MusicXML v2.0 format", then click OK.
     
  2. The compressed MusicXML format (.mxl) is now supported.
  3. Correction menu: Item to allow bracket to create groups.
  4. Correction menu: Item to ignore the clef's vertical offset.
  5. Management of implied tuplets.

Improvements

  1. Better management of drum staves.
  2. Opening a PDF file from the desktop doesn't load the last documents.
  3. Shift + mousewheel changes display scale.

Fixes

  1. Confusion between tuplets and part start.
  2. Chord diagrams management.
  3. Confusion on drum staves.
  4. Memory crash when deleting a change made to the document.

Changes 1.0.3 to 1.0.4 (April 25, 2007)

New

  1. A correction can now be applied to a group of symbols.

    Right-click to define a selection area. Symbols in this area appear as selected. Right-click on any symbol in this selection area and select a correction to apply: it will be applied to all the symbols of the same kind in the selection area.

Improvements

  1. Better memory management for page graphic cache. Enables managing of bigger PDF files.

Fixes

  1. Seeking of the staff related to chord diagrams.

Changes 1.0.2 to 1.0.3 (April 3, 2007)

Improvements

  1. Optimization of processing time.
  2. Better management for chord name written on shifted lines.
  3. Better management of grace notes.
  4. Accented characters made of two parts.
  5. Recognition of guitar chord diagrams drawn with an empty grid character and a set of dots.
  6. Recognition of some key changes.
  7. Parentheses around an accidental or a notehead, when drawn with a text font.
  8. Font OCR database updated.
  9. Macintosh: Multi-screen management.

Fixes

  1. Recognition and export of the Aiken FaSoLa notation.
  2. Management of Adobe Type 1 fonts.
  3. Applying a change on a document with a guitar chord diagram.
  4. Recognition of horizontal beams, when overlapping a staff line.
  5. Problem when a chord name was "Re".
  6. Empty pictures are no longer exported in MusicXML.
  7. MacTel: keyboard management.

Changes 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 (February 21, 2007)

Improvements

  1. Possible to change note duration AND add or subtract a dot.
  2. Crossed grace notes management.
  3. New keyboard shortcuts for display scale, 200% scale.
  4. Dynamics merging ensure that the result is logical, for instance to avoid merging "mf" and "sfz".
  5. New full screen and drawer management.
  6. Font OCR database updated.
  7. New setting for the expert mode: maximum beam thickness.

Fixes

  1. Tenuti recognition.
  2. Ties within slurs.
  3. Breve rest recognition.
  4. Tempi display, edit and export.
  5. Beamed notes with double stems.
  6. Stem direction in chords.
  7. Framed text could interfere with part numbers.

Changes 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 (February 8, 2007)

Improvements

  1. When defining a new kind of tuplet, it's added to the tuplet value list.
  2. .myr files are now packed.
  3. "How to create PDF files with Mac OS 9" chapter added to the manual.
  4. "How to create PDF files with Linux" chapter added to the manual.
  5. Improvement in bar number seeking.
  6. Time signature detection has been improved.
  7. Improvement of paragraph recognition for free text objects.
  8. Font OCR database updated.
  9. .myr export: default instruments for the metronome are automatically created.
  10. After changing expert mode settings, possible to compute all the open documents again.
  11. In batch export, it's now possible to define the amendments to computation settings that will be applied to each and every processed file.
  12. When editing expert settings, when at least one item has been changed from the reference value, the matching topic name is highlighted in the list, and the offset from the current value to the reference is also displayed.

Fixes

  1. Miscellaneous problems in general settings.
  2. Problem that could occur when trying to edit or play a non-vector document (scanned page or not a music score).
  3. Infinite loop when selecting a user tuplet.
  4. Exported page selection in other formats than MusicXML.
  5. Double barlines at end of bar could be not well recognized.
  6. File kind detection according to its extension when exporting.
  7. Chord names and text related to the staff could be not exported in .myr format.
  8. Output device related to the instrument when exporting in .myr format.
  9. Alert about bar numbering when applying correction on systems.
  10. Windows: files with accented characters in their name are now properly managed.
  11. Windows: default value of the selector when selecting a folder.
  12. Dynamic size when exporting in MusicXML format.
  13. "Slash notation" export in MusicXML format.

First public release 1.0.0 (February 1, 2007)

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