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Problem e-mailing score

I guess this isn't really a Noteworthy problem, but hopefully somebody can help!  I am trying to send a copy of a score to a friend by e-mail.  I wrote the score using Noteworthy Composer 1.75, then I used Print Preview>Copy and pasted from the clipboard into a Microsoft Word document which I then sent as an e-mail attachment.  But when my friend tried to open it, he got text letters rather than notation.  I thought maybe he didn't have the same version of MSWord as I have, so I sent it as a .rtf file instead - but he got the same result.  I am baffled because all I need to do, on both my Windows XP machine and my Windows 98 machine, is simply double click on the .rtf file, and immediately it shows the score.  Any ideas please?

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Reply #1 –
I had a similar problem, so I will be very interested to read any replies.  I did exactly the same (print preview - copy - paste into a MS Word document - save & attach to an email).  I didn't see the result, but was told by the recipient that the stems of the notes were visible, but not the heads.

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Reply #2 –
Some suggestions.

Email the nwc file with instructions for downloading the free noteworthy player or browser plugin so they can print directly from the nwc file.

If you want to import to MSWord, I have found saving the metafile to disk then importing to word to be better than the copy and paste approach. You can also edit the Word file and check it will display and print OK

Personally I have started using Open Office for importing metafiles from nwc. It seems to have better facilities for editing the image file within a document. Particularly the ability to crop the file so that just the notation shows. You can then add your own titles etc. OO is free, though it is a big download. It is able to save to Word format which is useful.

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Reply #3 –
What you can do is this: install a PDF creator. When installed, it acts as a printing device. You can send the result (a file) to anyone. They can then open it using Acrobat, or using the FoxIt reader. I have hesitated a long time to do this - don't know why, really. It works beautifully, and you no longer need to rely on Word-versions.

Find in Google using these keywords: "pdf creator freeware". I am not sure that I have the 'best' free PDF creator, so I am not going to recommend anything. Anybody here who has done comparisons?

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Reply #4 –
Doh! Now why didn't I think of that. I have done it only recently to send a nwc file by email.

I use Cute pdf. I have also used pdf995 in the past. pdf995 has pop up ads - mostly for their own products, but Cute pdf does not, which is why I changed. You can find Cute pdf here

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Reply #6 –
Thank you both Rob & Geoff.  I had read elsewhere in this forum about exporting to a PDF, but for some reason I hadn't managed to download the program.  However Cute pdf downloaded perfectly from Geoff's link and I've now saved my very first music pdf.  So I'll be able to happily email away now.

(I was previously trying to email some music to my daughter at her school, and she was not allowed to install the free noteworthy player on the school computer.)

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Reply #7 –
PDF is a very good suggestion, but I think you're only avoiding the original problem because your PDF software automatically embeds the NWC font.  In Word, you need to go to Tools, Options, Save and then check Embed TrueType fonts.  That should do it.  If you already had this option checked, then I would attribute the problem to Word being Word and tell you to run hastily back to your PDF solution. ;-)
Sincerely,
Francis Beaumier
Green Bay, WI

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Reply #8 –
Hi Francis
You are quite right, I didn't have that option ticked in Word.  Once I tick "Embed truetype fonts", there are then two other options:
...Embed characters in use only
...Do not embed common system fonts
Should either/both of these be ticked too?  (Sorry, my knowledge of such things is zero.)

I'm really happy to have the PDF creator, but it would be good to have Word set up properly too.

Graham - sorry I didn't mean to hijack your post, but hopefully this is useful for you too.

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Reply #9 –
Many thanks for all your replies.  If I find myself wanting to do this exercise regularly, I will certainly explore the pdf option.  However, I have just received the following message from my friend: “At the moment I am at my friend’s house and opened the document with Word or WordPad (doc or rtf) and it works !!!!! Well, this morning I had a blue screen and my system recovered from a serious fault (according to Bill Gates) so perhaps this has something to do with it.”
So the crisis is over, even if the mystery is not solved!
For information - on my PC, MSWord>Tools>Options>Save>Embed True-Type Fonts is NOT checked, but both the *.doc and the *.rtf files display the music notation satisfactorily.  But surely one would not expect availability or otherwise of fonts to affect the display of an ‘object’ ...?
Thanks again.
Graham

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Reply #10 –
If you didn't embed fonts in PDF, it is quite possible that your system substituted its concept of "equivalent" fonts, based on some mystery criterion. But no other font would be equivalent.

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Reply #11 –
Word will probably work OK if the recipient copies the NWC font to Windows/Font folder.

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Reply #12 –
Just an outside chance, but maybe your friend has his e-mail set to accept attachments only as inline text for fear of viruses.  That would likely cause your NWC score or even your MSWord file to show up as code.