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Article #1073Re: using the Sonata font for musical notation
From: Ariel_Walden
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:32
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:32
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Terry, You can't use a font to generate beams, because the beams' length and angle changes according to how many, and what, notes they are connecting. I would imagine Finale and Sibelius, etc., just draw vector lines programmatically as needed. To be honest, even note stems can't really be drawn with a font, since they must be shortened and lengthened to hit the beams correctly. However, you can download the free Finale Notepad. Type in whatever musical phrase you need and output that to pdf. With the pdf, you can do anything you want: bring it into illustrator, or rasterize it in Photoshop. Make a small graphic and animate that. Or don't use beams: just use disconnected notes. Ariel
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