[Dixielandjazz] RE: Smackaroony - Kilimanjaro -Song sharing

[Charlie Hull]

Thanks for the interesting words on Africa, Tamas. The current publicity about aids and genocide must be scaring many away.  Good to hear something positive.

Regarding your Finale files:  Some of us use Encore or Sibelius or ??.  Most folks have Acrobat Reader on their computers, so it's easy to share music with others even if they don't have your particular scoring program on their computers.  There's a free program called PDFcreator that will make a Reader .pdf file of any document produced with a Windows program.  When you install it, a 'printer' is created called 'PDFcreator'.  When you're in your Windows program (say Finale, Excel, Word, whatever) and have a file open (say Smackarooney), you just go to Print and select PDFcreator as the printer.  Instead of printing, it creates a .pdf file and opens it in Acrobat Reader so you can preview it.

Attach it to an e-mail to share.  The recipient(s) can open the file in Reader and print it out.

To get the free utility, go to http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm and click on Download.  It's even available in several languages.

Musical content:  Some Day My Prints Will Come

Charlie Hull