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I have a pdf of a musical score of mine, originally typeset in Finale. That Finale file was accidentally deleted, but I have a pdf of it.
There is a ‘f’ marking missing at one point. Can any kind person please recommend a pdf editing app by which I can copy an ‘f’ from elsewhere in the score and paste it in the right font where it is missing? It is pasting that seems to be the problem, not the copying.
Thanks in anticipation.
Mac mini, macOS 10.14
Did you try with just Preview? How to edit images and mark up PDFs with Preview on your Mac - Apple Support.
WD
Did you try with just Preview? How to edit images and mark up PDFs with Preview on your Mac - Apple Support.
WD
No PDF Editor will be free, and depending upon your budget, any of PDFpen or PDF Expert in the Mac App Store will do for adding the missing 'f' text to an existing PDF — provided you have that associated font installed. Although they offer trials of their software, these PDF Editor vendors will watermark the PDF until purchased.
Well, I could not find a font that looked remotely similar to the dynamic markings (like pp, f, ff, etc.) in the Maestro font within Finale. And anyone one using Finale should note that installing Maestro from a font supplier in addition to the Maestro that comes with Finale will stop Finale working! But then, after much trial and even more error, I discovered this:
1. Save as, convert or export the picture as TIFF
2. Open in Preview
3. Choose ‘Rectangular selection’ and draw box round the relevant part
4. Press Command + C (or select ‘Copy’ from File menu)
5. Press Command + V (‘Paste’)
* The copied picture element will appear somewhere in the picture
6. Drag the pasted element to its desired new location.
7. Save
8. If desired, convert back to or export as PDF
I have to add to the above answer to my problem that it creates another problem; namely that the final pdf score created by converting the edited TIFF score back to pdf turns out to be vastly larger in file-size than the original. (Can this indicate that every time an element in the score has been copied and pasted somewhere else in the TIFF score, a new page is created in the multi-page TIFF? This is purely a guess.)
This makes it very difficult if not impossible to send the final, corrected, score by email to prospective performers. The score has to be printed on paper and sent by post. If anyone has. a suggestion for solving this new problem, I should be veery grateful.
PDF editing without proper - and costly - tools can be daunting. The convert to TIFF step can just exacerbate the situation. There are different PDF formats... Some more "standard" than others.
I worked a lot with PDFs using advanced features. I ended using professional tools in order to avoid all those issues.
I understand this is not an answer to your question. Just sharing.
WD
Michael Graubart wrote:
It is pasting that seems to be the problem, not the copying.
What happens right now when you try it. The f marking does not show up? Something else shows up?
Thank you for pointing me back to Preview. It won’t let me copy and paste, but Annotate (or Text) has done the trick - or will have when I have found the right font.
pdf editor for Mac: copy & paste
