I am creating a musical instruction book and want to insert lines of music notation examples into the general text of the book. Have read quite a few posts about that but none seem to do the trick. Have exported to pdf but then can’t get that into the word doc.
Does anyone have any helpful thoughts on how to do this. Thanks so much in advance!!
Graphic slices might be what you want? otherwise what is wrong with them if you have tried them.
Thank you! Sounds like exactly what I am trying to do. Pretty new to Dorico so will familiarize myself with frames and the content of your response. Thanks again!
Welcome to Dorico and the forum. Feel free to ask questions if you cannot find it in a search, we were all new to Dorico at some point.
Hi Glenn,
Graphic slices are quite convenient, as it has been said.
But I do a lot of documents in Word with Dorico examples, and the fastest way yo do this for me has been using screen snapshots (in Windows, with the PintScreen key of the keyboard). Much, much faster than creating a slice, choosing the format of the file, saving it, then importing in Word…
With screen snapshots it is just a process of Copy and Paste. A few seconds.
All best.
Screenshots will be at the resolution of your screen image. PDF Slices will be vector images, independent of resolution.
Bitmapped images of music can look blurry or jagged.
Yes, the screenshot will depend on the screen resolution, but with modern screens, I find a resolution such as this example of screenshot more than adequate specially for educational documents:
…and if you zoom in first you can get a higher dpi density for that image.
Exactly, I zoom as much as I can and always get very good images.
True! And technically the better way to go!
Thanks everyone for your time and helpful comments! I have tried both methods now and see the differences etc. As time goes on I will no doubt pick a favourite approach. Original problem was a ridiculous issue with my new laptop and the way it was reading pdf’s… my bad … so figured that out and now, with that, and everyone’s constructive suggestions am up and running. Thanks again!!!
Opinion incoming: if it is for print, never ever use screenshots. Vector files only (PDF). SVG files are also vectored but are sometimes unreliable because rendering does not convert to curves. That means that SVG files will be incorrectly rendered when viewed on another device.
There are online converters (like Cloud Convert) that can render SVGs correctly, but PDF is generally the safest option.
BUT I think you can’t import a PDF Slice into Word, am I wrong,..?
You can, as long as you have a recent version of Word.
Hi Dan, that is very interesting. I have the last Word version. There is no option to import a pdf image in the “Insert image” menu.
Is that option on another menu???
I believe it is “insert object.“ I haven’t done it for years though, I use InDesign.
This screenshot is in the Mac version. I would imagine that the Windows version works pretty much the same way.
In the Insert menu, scroll down to Pictures, then across to Picture from File …. Click on that and navigate to the PDF file you wish to insert.
Alternatively, drag a PDF file into an open Word document.
Hi Dan,
Thanks for your messages. I see you are on a Mac. My PC Word (last version, paid suscription) does not have the option to insert a pdf from the “insert picture” menu.
I tried also the “insert object” menu which I had never seen, but it imports the pdf slice with very very low resolution.
Dragging does not work, neither, as Word just inserts a link to the original pdf document, no image at all.
I will investigate this “insert object” option, maybe it will work somehow.
Thanks again.
The Mac version does not either, but if you select Picture from File … as in the screenshot I supplied, it should then open a dialog where you can select the file you wish to insert. In that dialog, navigate to the file you want and select it then click Insert.
