[MusicTlk] Looking for a way to convert Ultimate Guitar PDF to XML to use with Lime Software

[carcione at access.net]

I use Goodfeel, and frequently only have a PDF for the music.  I bought another piece of software that creates .tif files.  
The sequence is:  
Open the PDF.
Print it as a .tif file.  If it only contains 1 piece of music, you can print the whole thing.  If it contains several pieces, you need to print each page.
Open the .tif file in Sharpeye, which comes with Goodfeel.  From Sharpeye, you can convert and save to musicxml very easily.

Usually it works well, though when I did it yesterday it skipped a bar.  But I was able to figure out what was missing by looking at the rest of the piece.

If you want, send me a piece and I'll run it through and send you the musicxml, and you can see how it looks.  And let me know if it's just one piece, or several.
carcione at access.net.
Tracy
  


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Subject: [MusicTlk] Looking for a way to convert Ultimate Guitar PDF to XML to use with Lime Software

Hi all,

I am back with yet another question. I am demoing The Feel Good Suite of software, and the band members I play with use Ultimate Guitar when practicing. I noticed all the downloadable scores are in PDF. Is there a way to convert them to XML to use with Lime? Adobe says it does this, but when I tried it with sighted help, it just gave me text, not notation.

I have been looking at Musescore.com as this does have downloadable XML scores, but does not appear to have many of the songs we play.

Thoughts/suggestions?

Thanks!

Beth
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