What's new ?

Version 1.3.0 / March 2011

1. The Kooplet music search engine is included, to search the Internet for PDF scores
2. Possible to deactivate the chord name search ("Correction" menu)
   

1. Position of the play bar in multi-rest bars
   

1. Rest display
2. Marcato Staccato ornament display
3. Tuplet rests in MusicXML export
4. Rests that fill a bar in MusicXML export
5. Rests vertical position

Version 1.3.0c (March 17, 2011 )

1. Repeat barlines between clef and time signature weren't processed.
2. Fixed toolbar update problem when setting up the icons to display
3. Fixed crash on some files, Windows version

Version 1.3.0d (March 24, 2011 )

1. Better management of slurs/ties drawn astride a line break
2. Some chords were incorrectly played arpeggiated

Version 1.2.1 / April-May 2010

1. Management of forced bar numbers
2. Management of incomplete time signatures
3. PDFtoMusic Pro: Command-line access (without GUI)
4. PDFtoMusic Pro: Batch processing: Messages can be saved in a log file
5. PDFtoMusic Pro: Expert mode: Maximum grace note size setting
   

1. General improvement of musical or alphabetical characters
   
2. Better management of double barlines
3. Improvement of numbered endings management
   

1. Page number in the drawer
   
2. Dots localisation problem
3. On some files, accidentals and grace notes recognition
   
4. MusicXML export: "<" character in lyrics
   
5. Space character management

Version 1.2.1c and 1.2.1d ( May 4th - 6th 2010 )

1. Improvement of music export (any format)
2. Improvement in the way melismas are performed by Virtual Singer
3. Improvement of the arpeggio symbol management
   
4. PDFtoMusic Pro: MusicXML export: stem sizes of secondary staves of a group (e.g. piano bass staff) weren't properly saved
5. Windows: Packed MusicXML (.mxl) didn't work
6. Windows Vista/7: once the program was installed, the system displayed an alert box saying that the install might not be completed properly
7. Windows Vista/7: The appearance of dialog boxes could not be as expected

Version 1.2 / April 2009

1. The toolbar can now be customized
2. A folder of sample PDF files is now provided
3. It is now possible to exclude break symbols (segno, coda...) from the processing
   

1. Better export of grace notes (appoggiaturas) in MusicXML.
2. Better recognition and export of tremolos.
3. Better management of repeat start and end symbols
4. Better management of drum staves, especially on documents that only include such staves.
5. .myr export now manages metronome
6. Verse number in lyrics are now better managed.
7. Better recognition for half notes
8. Crossed grace notes are now located and exported
9. Better management of whole bar rests
10. All actions available from menus can be activated through an icon, and vice versa

1. Fixed performance of some kind of drum staves
2. Fixed a small problem of file compatibility between PDFtoMusic and Melody Player
3. Fixed problem in beam recognition
4. Crash on embedded Adobe Type 1 fonts with composite diacritics.
   

Version 1.1 / September 8, 2008

1. Packed MusicXML format (.mxl) is now managed
   
2. Correction Menu : item to allow bracket to create groups
3. Correction Menu : item to ignore the clefs vertical offset
4. Management of implied tuplets
5. Now possible to export in MusicXML 2.0 format (global setup)
   

1. Better management of drum staves
2. Opening a PDF file from the desktop doesn't load the last documents
3. Shift + mousewheel changes display scale
   

1. Confusion between tuplets and part start
2. Chord diagrams management
3. Confusion on drum staves
4. Memory crash when deleting a change made to the document
   

Version 1.0.4 / April 24th, 2007

1. A correction can now be applied to a group of symbols.
   Right-click to define a selection area. Symbols in this area appear as selected. Right-click on any symbol in this selection area and select a correction to apply: it will be applied to all the symbols of the same kind in the selection area.

1. Better memory management for page graphic cache. Enables to manage bigger PDF files.
   

1. Seeking of the staff related to chord diagrams
   

Version 1.0.3 / April 3rd, 2007

1. Optimization of processing time
2. Better management for chord name written on shifted lines.
3. Better management of grace notes
4. Accented characters made of two parts
5. Recognition of guitar chord diagrams drawn with an emty grid character and a set of dots
6. Recognition of some key changes
7. Parenthesis around an accidental or a notehead, when drawn with a text font
8. Font OCR database updated.
9. Macintosh: Multi-screen management

1. Recognition and export of the Aiken FaSoLa notation
2. Management of Adobe Type 1 fonts
3. Applying a change on a document with a guitar chord diagram
4. Recognition of horizontal beams, when overlapping a staff line
5. Problem when a chord name was "Re"
6. PDFtoMusic Pro: empty pictures are no more exported in MusicXML
   
7. MacTel: keyboard management

Version 1.0.2 / February 21st, 2007

1. Possible to change note duration AND add or subtract a dot.
2. Crossed grace notes management
3. New keyboard shortcuts for display scale, 200% scale
4. Dynamics merging ensure that the result is logical, for instance to avoid merging "mf" and "sfz"
5. New full screen and drawer management
6. Font OCR database updated.
7. PDFtoMusic Pro: New setting for the expert mode: maximum beam thickness.

1. Tenuti recognition
2. Ties within slurs
3. Breve rest recognition
4. Tempi display, edit and export
5. Beamed notes with double stems
6. Stem direction in chords
7. Framed text could interfere with part numbers

Version 1.0.1 /  February 8th, 2007

1. When defining a new kind of tuplet, it's added to the tuplet value list.
2. .myr files are now packed.
3. "How to create PDF files with Mac OS 9" chapter added to the manual.
4. "How to create PDF files with Linux" chapter added to the manual.
5. Improvement in bar number seeking.
6. Time signature detection has been improved.
7. Improvement of paragraph recognition for free text objects.
8. Font OCR database updated.
9. .myr export: default instruments for the metronome are automatically created.
10. PDFtoMusic Pro: After changing expert mode settings, possible to compute all the open documents again.
11. PDFtoMusic Pro: In batch export, it's now possible to define the amendments to computation settings that will be applied to each and every processed file.
12. PDFtoMusic Pro: When editing expert settings, when at least one item has been changed from the reference value, the matching topic name is highlighted in the list, and the offset from the current value to the reference is also displayed.

1. Miscellaneous problems in general settings.
2. Problem that could occur when trying to edit or play a non-vector document (scanned page or not a music score)
3. Infinite loop when selecting a user tuplet
4. Exported page selection in other formats than MusicXML
5. Double barlines at end of bar could be not well recognized.
6. File kind detection according to its extension when exporting
7. Chord names and text related to the staff could be not exported in .myr format
8. Output device related to the instrument when exporting in .myr format
9. Alert about bar numbering when applying correction on systems
10. Windows: files with accented characters in their name are now properly managed.
11. Windows : default value of the selector when selecting a folder.
12. PDFtoMusic Pro: dynamic size when exporting in MusicXML format
13. PDFtoMusic Pro: "slash notation" export in MusicXML format

Version 1.0.0 / February 1st, 2007