Rich. Thank you for your explanation. That is the problem, very obviously. It's still not all hunky dory. For example, Corel Draw X5 won't take the paste from the copy I made in NWC print preview (or, rather, it takes it, but the problem's unchanged). However, Corel Draw will accept the .emf file when I create that instead of just copying it. Unfortunately, each staff is distorted with the last/bottom line being about 10 line thicknesses thick. Must be a problem with Corel, and I've no time to pursue that.
However, wonder of wonders, Open Office Drawing accepts the copy just beautifully, graphics excellent and all. Just did a paste, and there it was. Printed perfectly too.
Thanks for your help, Rich. It is very much appreciated. For myself, I suppose I can learn how to run OO Draw in a pinch.
In the past (before updating to the latest version) I was easily able to move my print pages from NWC to a graphic program with no loss of quality that I could see. However, I just did this with latest version (V2.1) with very bad results. I copied from the print preview page in NWC and then pasted into Corel Draw 12. Looked OK on the computer (without zooming). However, printing looked awful. The staff lines were very weak and the slurs were totally uneven in thickness, varying from good and dark to invisible all along their length. The note stems were also very, very light. When I saw the result I did a zoom and, sure enough, the problems were apparent when looking at the enlarged view as it appeared in the graphics program.
The reason I wished to move to a graphic program was to make it easier to add bowing notation for a violin score. I'd solved that easily enough, using symbols from another font and converting them to curves and doing a lot of copying and pasting; but the result was not useable.
Just so you know, I figured out how to use the boxmarks font in the program proper ... so it's not a problem any more. Still, there may be other occasion (by me or others) to want to move to a graphics program and it would appear that that's not working.
I am a singer. I use NW primarily to manually transcribe choral parts so I can play back and practice my part. I leave my staff volume high; I set the other parts to low volume; I practice. Works great. Used it for years.
Occasionally I find a midi file with what I want and I put it up. NW has always worked fine. Today it's failed on two files. The files are working with the same piano accompaniment which is written in triplets in a 4/4 environment. Each quarter note has 3 eighth notes (or two and a rest) comprising the triplet.
If I play the midi file with Windows Media Player (which I do before attempting the convert ... just to make certain it's what I want) all the triplets (and the 1/8 rests) are proper. When I do the convert into NW it's all wrong. The settings I'm using for the convert from midi are: . automatic beam . note resolution ThirtySecond Note . Rest resolution Sixteenth Rest What comes out is weird in the extreme. The actual music in the piano right hand staff is all 1/8 rests and 1/8 notes (staff down) ... it's in triplets, see. The rest of the notes in that staff are in standard quarter and half notes (staff up) as is the left hand staff. All the other staffs are also in non-triplet notation.
As I said above, playing it on Windows Media Player it sounds find. But when Noteworthy Composer converts it the notes in each "triplet" are not equal in length; they're dotted and 32nds and 16ths and what have you.
Any ideas? I'm not desperate about this ... I know the piece pretty well (Fauré's "Cantique de Jean Racine") as I've done it numerous times. But I'd like to resolve the problem for futures if that's possible.
