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March 15, 2023
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inability to post a music score satisfactorily in InDesign

  • March 15, 2023
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I am in the middle of an Indesign trial, so need to be confident that Indesign will meet my needs if I am going to continue and subscribe.

I want to post several music scores into an Indesign (INDD) document.  They were created in MuseScore.  They are fine in the copy for the hardback and paperback books that I am producing.  They produce very poorly in Indesign.  Several of the horizontal lines show much darker than the others and the production of other parts is poor.  I have tried the higher definition option.  I have tried transferring by importing a pdf, which works slightly better, but the results from a 300ppi JPEG and a 600ppi PNG have been poor.

Is there anything else that I can try?  I have imported them individually and not with a Word document.

The intention is to produce an EPub document eventually and I am not hopeful the scores will survive that conversion with Indesign either.

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解決に役立った回答 James Gifford—NitroPress

There is another user here who has struggled with score publishing for some time. I hesitate to give a user name but if you search you'll pretty easily find the discussions.

 

The short take is that publishing scores to EPUB is a difficult, fraught effort. The way the various scoring apps build the page images is not consistent and a significant amount of conversion and tweaking and workaround is needed to get past just most of the issues. None of this has much to do with InDesign, as many of the issues persist using other apps and build methods.

 

The proper format for publishing scores is PDF; unfortunately, if your market or portal is services like iBooks, EPUB is more or less required.

 

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Legend
March 15, 2023

There is another user here who has struggled with score publishing for some time. I hesitate to give a user name but if you search you'll pretty easily find the discussions.

 

The short take is that publishing scores to EPUB is a difficult, fraught effort. The way the various scoring apps build the page images is not consistent and a significant amount of conversion and tweaking and workaround is needed to get past just most of the issues. None of this has much to do with InDesign, as many of the issues persist using other apps and build methods.

 

The proper format for publishing scores is PDF; unfortunately, if your market or portal is services like iBooks, EPUB is more or less required.

 

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March 15, 2023

Have you tried the PDF route? Export from MuseScore to PDF, then place that...

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BobLevine
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BobLevineCommunity Expert
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March 15, 2023

I don't want to throw cold water on your project, but there is no way in the world you are going to be able to test this out for EPUB in seven days. If you're not willing to spend some money to subscribe, at the very least on a month-to-month basis, you might just as well throw in the towel now.

 

That out of the way, if you're going to continue with this, you should be aware that EPUB is very dependent on the reader application and the choices the user makes. If you're thinking fixed layout, I would have to advise you that you are likely to be in for a world of pain because there's very little support for it.

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