My ABC Transcription Tools website

[eskin]

I've added a new feature to the ABC tool to allow you set the PDF quality and have some control over the PDF file size.

Just put this at the top of your ABC:

%pdfquality 0.5

and that will create a PDF about half the previous file size without sacrificing too much quality.

The default value is 0.75, which is lower than before, the previous default was 1.0.

Any new PDF files you create on the new version without overriding the default value will still be very high quality by default but a bit smaller in size than before.

Here's an example, you can paste this all into the tool to try:
 

%pdfquality 0.5

X: 1
T: The Blackwater
C: Matt Cranitch
R: polka
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
|:Fd Bd/B/|AF ED|A,B, DE|FE EF|
Ad Bd/B/|AF EF|DF A/B/A/F/|ED D>E:|
|:FA Bc|d2 Ad|fg/f/ ed|fe e2|
dc/d/ ed|BA FE|DF A/B/A/F/|ED D>E:| 

You can play around with the pdfquality value until you find the sweet spot for your use.

You'll need to refresh your browser and make sure you have the latest version.  If not, clear the cache and reload the page.

If you have the latest version and click "New ABC", you should see the pdfquality value listed in the list of optional headers.

 

Edited May 19 by eskin
Reformat

[David Barnert]

Post deleted... now irrelevant.

Edited May 19 by David Barnert
added a sentence

[eskin]

Thanks David, fixed my post...

[David Barnert]

... and I deleted mine.

[eskin]

In my ABC Tools, I've added the ability to have the index page listings link to the tune pages if you add the following comment annotation at the top of the ABC:

 

%doindexpagelinks

 

There are some limitations.

 

First, this only works for tunebook index pages, not table of contents. It's not a perfect solution, but it's way better than nothing.

 

So, for example, if you put this at the top of your ABC collection in the editor, you'll get a title page, the tunes, then an index page with links back to the pages for each of the tunes:

 

%addtitle Session Tune Book
%addsubtitle My Tunes
%addindex Index of Tunes
%doindexpagelinks

 

I've tested it with several large tunebooks, both one tune per page, multiple tunes per page, and with text and notation incipits.

 

Please try the latest version of the tool, make sure you're loading the latest page by clearing cache, if you look at the page source for the main tool, you should see

 

<link href="app.css?v=288" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

near the top of the file. If you see v=286 or 287, force a page reload.

 

Hope this is useful to you!

 

Try my ABC Tools at:

http://michaeleskin.com/abc

 

Edited 15 hours ago by eskin

[lachenal74693]

12 hours ago, eskin said:

In my ABC Tools, I've added the ability to have the index page listings link to the tune pages

...

this only works for tunebook index pages, not table of contents. It's not a perfect solution, but it's way better than nothing.

...
%addindex Table of Contents

Nice!

 

Later: Daft question about using the index page as a ToC deleted. It only works if the tunes are in the file in alphabetical order...

Edited 4 hours ago by lachenal74693