Frustrated
11-03-2011, 05:06 PM
Can anyone please help? I am a techno idiot and out of my depth here...
When I started my job (at a small publisher of sheet music) I inherited a computer with all our music (which was previously printed commercially) scanned and saved in DeskTopBinder. The old Ricoh printer has long since been replaced with a Konica Bizhub and I've been gradually PDFing the huge amount of archived music (we now print in-house to order). Job not yet complete.
We've just replaced my computer with a Windows 7 64-bit one (needed in order to run the latest music software). This has thrown lots of things into chaos... the worst being that DeskTopBinder no longer works so I can't access the archive which I saved from the old computer!
I see from other threads that there is no version of DeskTopBinder that will work on a 64-bit computer with Windows 7 - and the expert who installed it found out that Ricoh do not intend producing one. So I need software that will do the things I found essential when editing scanned pages of previously printed music.
The things I need to be able to do are:
· Correct skewed pages (they often scan crooked)
· Enhance image (the notes need to be black not grey!)
· Select, cut and move patches within a page (e.g. alter the position of a word or symbol, or delete blemishes)
· Copy from another document and paste a patch into a page (e.g. add an updated copyright line or correction)
· Handle all the pages of a piece of music in one document (not a separate image per page - some are more than 60 pages long!)
Any suggestions would be gratefully received :-)
When I started my job (at a small publisher of sheet music) I inherited a computer with all our music (which was previously printed commercially) scanned and saved in DeskTopBinder. The old Ricoh printer has long since been replaced with a Konica Bizhub and I've been gradually PDFing the huge amount of archived music (we now print in-house to order). Job not yet complete.
We've just replaced my computer with a Windows 7 64-bit one (needed in order to run the latest music software). This has thrown lots of things into chaos... the worst being that DeskTopBinder no longer works so I can't access the archive which I saved from the old computer!
I see from other threads that there is no version of DeskTopBinder that will work on a 64-bit computer with Windows 7 - and the expert who installed it found out that Ricoh do not intend producing one. So I need software that will do the things I found essential when editing scanned pages of previously printed music.
The things I need to be able to do are:
· Correct skewed pages (they often scan crooked)
· Enhance image (the notes need to be black not grey!)
· Select, cut and move patches within a page (e.g. alter the position of a word or symbol, or delete blemishes)
· Copy from another document and paste a patch into a page (e.g. add an updated copyright line or correction)
· Handle all the pages of a piece of music in one document (not a separate image per page - some are more than 60 pages long!)
Any suggestions would be gratefully received :-)