Klarinet Archive - Posting 000679.txt from 1997/07

From: apod@-----.uk (Audrey Podmore)
Subj: Re: Sibelius7
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 22:19:37 -0400

Mark,

I think Alan Taylor probably contacted you as a result of my alerting the
Contemporary Music-Making for Amateurs mailing list to your offer of web space
for compositions. He is a coordinator of COMA's London Composers'Forum, of
which I am a member. I also use Sibelius7 Student, so like Alan, I am unable to
export Postscript files from Sibelius. I think there is a way of doing it from
the Draw program but I do not have time to fiddle and check it out. I will
suggest to Alan that he raises this question on the Sibelius Users list.

Sibelius is a very expensive piece of software but it is an extremely fast,
very user-friendly program, which is dedicated to music publishing (as opposed
to sequencing). They have recently opened an outlet in the US because the
software has been enthusiastically taken up by the film industry. The reason
that the company sells machines is that numerous composers, conservatoires etc.
have purchased Acorn computers specifically to run this software! Initially
intended for professional publishing, it is now available (in different
versions) for colleges and elementary schools.

The Draw program has been ported to the PC (known as Oak Draw, it is
distributed by a firm called TAG Developments). If you know anyone with that
they should be able to load the Draw file, but I guess it's not very likely!

Sorry I can't be of immediate help with your translation problem.

Audrey
apod@-----.uk

On Sun 20 Jul 97 (16:44:48), charette@-----.com wrote:
>I'm in contact with a composer (Alan Taylor) who using Sibelius7 as
>his composition tool. Unfortunately, he currently has the student
>edition, which does not create P ostScript files.
>
>He did send me an Acorn Draw file, which is pretty much unintelligable
>here in the U.S. (Sir Clive never pushed the Acorns very hard on this
>side of the Atlantic).
>
>1) Can anyone on Klarinet read a Sibelius7 file & create
> PostScript file for me?
>
>or, alternately,
>
>2) Can anyone on Klarinet read an Acorn Draw file & create
> PostScript for me?
>
>Thanks,e
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