Tech: Help me find a prog to print tabs

Subject: RE: Help me find a prog to print Sheet....
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Nov 99 - 02:37 PM

BTW...at that Guitar site Paul posted there is this item

Blank Tablature Paper - Print em out and start writing (2K MSWord). I downloaded it...and what it does is open MS Word, and put on the screen a music paper graph!...I have NO idea how it does this...I thought it might be a progran IN MS Word, but it seems to just put the lines in...anyway, itworks

Subject: RE: Help me find a prog to print Sheet....
From:
Date: 14 Nov 99 - 05:50 AM

Bruce: There are ways of storing graphic information. One is called "bitmap" or "matrix". This inludes GIF and most of the files that produce pictures. It takes the area the graphic is to occupy and divides it into small region. Then it has a code saying what color dots to put in what region. (In the case of b/w, it just says whether there is a black dot or not.) There is no way to vary the resolution of these, because the resolution has been preset by the division of the graphic.

The other type is often called "vector" or "outline". This contains instructions like "put a letter here", or "put a line here", or "put a circle here". A program is then needed to change this to instructions as to where the printer puts the actual dots. But the translating program can make a graphic at the resolution you specify. The only two formats I know of this kind are postscript and pdf (which I suspect is a souped-up postscript).

So you probably should look into graphic programs that produce one of them. There are a lot of them around. Most word-processors, point-and-shoot graphic programs, and spreadsheets on Windows will print a postscript file. You just have to install one of the postscript print drivers that come with Windows (like the apple laserwriter ones). Then choose this as your printer and select "print to a file" You will then get a postscript file. There is free software for converting postscript to pdf and vice-versa and there is free software for viewing and printing postscript and pdf files.

I am very interested in this in an amateur way and I don't want to get carried away. Send me an email if you want more details.

Murray

Subject: RE: Help me find a prog to print Sheet....
From:
Date: 13 Nov 99 - 07:35 PM

I used to use one from that Simtel thing. Really easy to use, and that's all it did, print various Staff papers. You could set the spacing between lines, between staffs, thickness of lines, etc.

Subject: RE: Help me find a prog to print Sheet....
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Nov 99 - 06:13 PM

here is an even more direct link Graph paper printer

Subject: RE: Help me find a prog to print Sheet....
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Nov 99 - 06:11 PM

QRS...sorry to be late, but could this freeware program be what you need?..

from the READ ME:"Graph Paper Printer is an application designed for manual graphing. It prints custom graph paper and music staff paper in any size and colors. Numerous options are available. Graph Paper Printer is a must-have program of interest for a wide range of users: -Scientists, engineers, researchers. -Teachers, students, schoolboys. -Navigators, geographers. -Musicians, composers. -Quilt, patchwork, cross stitch. -Architects, draftsmen, circuit-boards designers. -Modelists, hobbyists, radio-amateurs. -Roleplaying gamers.

Subject: RE: Help me find a prog to print Sheet....
From: Bruce O.
Date: 13 Nov 99 - 02:06 PM

Re: Murray's comment above. Is there any graphics format that will give good sharp black on white? CAD drawings made on my moderate resolution printer are far superior to the .GIF, .JPEG, and even .BMP's that my graphics converter gives, and it gives me no options for increasing (or decreasing) the resolution.

Subject: RE: Help me find a prog to print Sheet....
From:
Date: 13 Nov 99 - 02:01 PM

QRS, you didn't specify what kind of computer you are running. On the assumption it isn't Mac or Linux, you might want to look at

Simtel Music Links

Subject: RE: Help me find a prog to print Sheet....
From: MandolinPaul
Date: 13 Nov 99 - 07:22 AM

Hey QRS,

You can buy pads of paper at any music store that has the staffs for standard notation already printed on it. These also work well for mandolin tab; just use the spaces as strings.

For guitar tab, check out this web site, and download PowerTab. You can write tab for 4, 5, or 6-string instruments, or just print out blank lines.

Hope this helps.

Paul

Subject: RE: Help me find a prog to print Sheet....
From:
Date: 13 Nov 99 - 06:03 AM

I have found sites with postscript files that will print out a blank page with staves for standard notation. There might be such a thing with a postscript or pdf file for tab. If so you can just keep it on file and print it whenever you need it. For pdf you will need the free Acrobat reader; but the quality will be far better than you will get with GIF, etc files.

Murray

Subject: RE: Help me find a prog to print Sheet....
From: Bruce O.
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 02:45 PM

Can you print out from HPGL .PLT files from your computer system? If so, can you rotate it by 90 degrees? Or do you have a graphics converter than can convert .PLT file to .JEPG or .GIF format. I can make a .PLT file from my CAD file, but only in landscape orientation. I can rotate the CAD drawing file so it's in landscape orientation, which is fine, but it's a stinker of a job for me to convert it back to a portrait orientation output graphic. I have to convert .PLT to bitmap (.BMP) then use MSPaint to rotate that to portrait orientation, then convert the rotated .BMP to .JPEG or GIF. [This is how I made the just intonation slide rule on my website]

Subject: RE: Help me find a prog to print Sheet....
From: Bruce O.
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 02:21 PM

I've done it with Wordperfect. With graphics mode you could probably pull in a treble cleff symbol also.
However, I've made up a short file on a relatively cheap CAD program that does the staff and symbol, and I generally use that now instead of the Wordperfect file. I have files for 10 staffs and 12 staffs on an 8 1/2 x 11 inch page (portrait orientation). I can easily do landscape orientation, and have made complete tune files that way, but I've not made a special page for blank music paper.

Subject: RE: Help me find a prog to print Sheet....
From: Tiger
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 02:08 PM

QRS......

Sounds like it should be a piece of cake for a word processor. Is there more to your request, or do you just want something like:

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Subject: RE: Help me find a prog to print Sheet....
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 02:00 PM

Have you looked at Noteworthy Composer? I don't know if it can do what you need, but there are several threads on it. You can find it here

Hope that helps.

kat

Subject: Help me find a prog to print Sheet....
From: QRS
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 01:49 PM

Please help me `catters!!

I´m looking for a prog. that can print Empty pages of "tab lines" of "note lines" (six lines is needed)

Anyone?

Regards to your all!!

QRS