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Messages - Paul R. Coats

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General Discussion / Convert Encore to NWC?
I am working with another composer who wants to begin using NWC, but wants to convert his older Encore files.  Is there a way to do this?
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General Discussion / Re: NWC makes the grade
NWC makes acceptable slurs for most part, though in your example, yes, leaves a little to be desired.  It does not bother me, as the speed of work in NWC is excellent.

In Finale, after a slur is created, each end has to be moved, the middle re-arched, each and every time.  Their latest incarnation is better, but still, it is a pain.  I could spend that time writing a few more measures.  Every single thing in Finale takes a look at the helpfile and much practice.  At the rate I crank out music, if I had to depend on Finale, well, I just don't have that much time left in my life.
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General Discussion / Re: NWC to PDF
Mario:  I was helping an acquaintence learn to use NWC, and had sent them a finished piece to look at, and use to teach certain things we were discussing.

A few months later, I received an email from another person in Europe who said, "I received this piece from ------ and though it has that person as the composer, this sounds like something YOU would write."  Well, it WAS something I wrote, the piece I had sent the person in the first paragraph above.  That person had changed the composer from my name to his.

In discussing this with my brother, who is a college professor, he recommended I do as he does, and print my work to Adobe pdf files.  He does this to keep others from easily plagarizing his work.  "If they are going to steal my work, at least I can make them work for it."

Also, EVERYBODY has access to the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.  They can open, view, and print sheet music without having to have the same program.  We provide lessons and other sheet music at Sax On The Web (www.saxontheweb.net) in zipped pdf files.

We had tried jpgs... nope, to have good, readable sheet music, the pages had to be about 1 mb each.  Tried gif, tif, and other picture type formats.  We had no control over page size.  Many people downloaded and could not get a readable sheet of music.

Here are two good reasons to convert to pdf.

Paul C.