NoteView is able to open both Nightingale and NoteView scores. If you share a Nightingale score with someone else, it can be edited and printed by anyone else who owns Nightingale. However, once you have "locked" the score by converting it to a NoteView score, it can no longer be edited or printed by anyone, and can only be viewed/listened to using the NoteView application.
The NoteView Converter application is NOT shareware, and is meant to be used only by registered Nightingale owners.
Preparing a Nightingale score for the NoteView Converter:
1) Create a score using Nightingale, finishing all work in its final form (see "font limitations" and "magnification limitations" below)
2) If you plan distribute only selected pages of the score as NoteView files, you should make a copy of the original score (go to Save As under the File menu, and save the score using a unique name)
3) In the copy of the score, delete the pages you do not wish to distribute as a NoteView score (Note: you cannot delete the first page of a score unless you add a new page prior to it).
4) Save the final changes to the copy score.
Using the NoteView Converter:
1) Launch the NoteView Converter application
2) A dialog box will prompt you to locate the Nightingale score for conversion to NoteView format.
3) Select the correct score and click on [OK]
4) If an alert is displayed telling you that the original Nightingale score has not been saved using 100% magnification, quit the NoteView Converter and make corrections using Nightingale.
5) Repeat steps 1 through 3, and then a dialog box will prompt you to choose a file name and destination folder in which the new NoteView file will be saved (a default name is suggested in the dialog). After you've typed the filename you want, click on [Save]. A new NoteView file is created and the original Nightingale score is left unchanged.
6) Double click on the newly converted NoteView file to check that it displays correctly.
NoteView users may not have all of the fonts used in your original score. This means that any special text fonts you might use when creating a score with Nightingale (e.g., for titles, lyrics, etc.) will not be available on another user's computer. If NoteView opens a score and encounters a missing font, it will substitute one of the "standard" fonts which are included free with the Macintosh operating system (i.e., Geneva, Monaco, Chicago, Helvetica, Times, New York, or Symbol). If fonts are substitued, careful spacing or placement in your score could be altered.
Recommendation:
When creating a score in Nightingale which you intended to have viewed on another user's computer, it is recommended that you limit font styles to the "standard" fonts, so that NoteView doesn't need to substitute any of the fonts in your score. This guarantees that the score will appear exactly as you want to all NoteView users.
Magnification Limitations
NoteView is able to display view magnifications of a score ranging from 25% to 600%. This includes five magnification sizes which are *not* included in Nightingale 2.0 (but will be introduced in Nightingale 3.0). Scores must be saved in Nightingale while displaying at 100% magnification *before* the NoteView Converter can be used. If you have not saved the Nightingale score at 100% view, an alert will be displayed by the NoteView converter telling you to do so.
NOTE: For complete instructions on NoteView and the World Wide Web (WWW), see NoteView help under the Apple menu after opening the NoteView application.
For a web-browser application (such as Netscape) to automatically open a downloaded file in NoteView, three things must have been done beforehand--one you do, one the user does, and one your server's webmaster does:
1) You: name the file in such a way that Netscape recognizes it as a NoteView score.
2) User: configure their copy of Netscape to open the file with the right program. Normally this means, tell Netscape where NoteView is on their hard disk.
3) Webmaster: configure the Web server with NoteView's "MIME" type, subtype, and extension (respectively, "application", "x-noteview", ".nvu").
"MIME" stands for "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions". The Web uses the MIME conventions for file-types, identifying them by an "extension" to the filename. For example, graphics saved in the PICT format (the standard Macintosh format for draw-style graphics) will be recognized by Netscape (by default) if they have the filename extension ".pict" or ".pic". (The 3-letter alternative is for storing files on PC DOS fileservers: DOS recognizes only 3-character filename extensions.)
For NoteView files, the filename extension is ".nvu". To minimize the chance for error when your NoteView file is uploaded to, or transferred between, WWW servers, observe DOS filename conventions: 8-character (max) names with 3-character extensions. (Your score will no doubt carry a more descriptive title at the beginning of the first page.)
Examples of correctly named NoteView or Nightingale scores:
Symphony.nvu
SymMvt1.nvu
BUT NOT:
Symphony.Movement.1.nvu
or
Symphony (*Great Piece!*).nvu
or
Symphony.nview
--even though these are legal Macintosh filenames.
You should also include on your web page a copy of NoteView(TM), or a link to a copy on Musicware's Web server, for downloading by users. And make sure you include a Read Me file which tells users how to set up Netscape to open your scores automatically. Musicware suggests the following wording:
In order to set up Netscape to open and display the NoteView(TM) scores contained in this archive, you need to make sure that NoteView(TM) is installed correctly on your hard disk, and that Netscape is correctly configured to find it on your Macintosh.
First of all, ensure that NoteView is correctly installed by following the instructions in the ReadMe file that was contained in the same compressed archive file in which you downloaded NoteView.
NoteView(TM) files in online archives should always have
names ending: 'nvu'. This provides a means for
Netscape to find the program on your Macintosh and
automatically open the scores as soon as you download them.
In order to do this, you have to configure Netscape to
recognize the files and locate NoteView(TM). Follow these
steps *exactly*:
1) Choose "Preferences..." from Netscape's "Options" menu.
2) From the popup menu at the top of the dialog box, select "Helper Applications".
3) Click on the "New..." button.
4) Type 'application' into the field marked "Mime type:"
5) Press the tab key once and type 'nvue' into the field marked "Mime subtype:"
6) Click on OK or hit the return key, which will return you to the Netscape Preferences dialog box.
You will see the new Helper Application listed as "Unknown", with Action "Unknown" and no extensions listed. Next, click in the box to the right of "Extensions:" in the middle of the dialog box, and type 'nvu,nvue' (no spaces).
To tell Netscape where to find NoteView, you must click on the button marked "Browse...", and locate the copy of NoteView you have installed. When you have done so, click OK or hit the return key, which will return you to the Netscape Preferences dialog box.
The popup menu to the right of "Browse..." automatically lists the Macintosh file-types that NoteView recognizes. Make sure that the file-type "SCOV" is showing; if not, select it from the popup menu.
Finally, click on the radio button "Launch Application".
If you are sure that you have followed these steps correctly, click on OK or hit the return key to return to Netscape. If you are not sure, click on Cancel and try again.
Next time you download a NoteView file from this archive (or any other which has been correctly set up), Netscape will automatically find NoteView and open the score for you. You can then choose whether or not to save the file from within NoteView.
For detailed server or browser configuration instructions, see the file named "Configuring Netscape" on this disk or in "NoteView Help..." (under the apple menu after opening NoteView).
