I hope I am not duplicating an open topic. I searched but was not able to find exactly what I am experiencing. I am going to a website called:https://sheetmusicinternational.com/comp/keywordsearch
Downloading a public domain hymn. It comes in two pages. I want to drag the pdf into LB, it asks me what page and I select page 2. It does not bring in the text or the notes for the hymn. I can convert it to BMP but I lose the clairity. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Can you upload the PDF to have a look at?
PDF is not supported to upload in the forum. That is all I did was go to the website above and download “In The Garden” You can choose any song and it will do the same thing. How do I get you the PDF via this forum?
if you add .txt to the end of the filename it will upload.
In The Garden.txt (723.6 KB)
I just changed the extension to txt, change back to pdf when you download it.
Try this.
In The Garden_2.pdf.txt (742.8 KB)
It does import. What did you do. The only issue I have is I want to set this to fill. When I do that and do a preview it says 286 shapes were set to fill but weren’t closed. These have been removed as they cause problems. Either show me, cancel or continue. Not sure how to fix that?
I first tried opening the PDF in Affinity Designer but it was missing the ‘blobs’ on the notes. I also tried Inkscape and CorelDraw 2018 but had similar issues. I then tried opening your PDF in Adobe Acrobat 9.0 then exported as EPS (it was the first format I tried). I opened that EPS in Affinity Designer then exported that as a PDF, I then imported that PDF into LB.
Here’s a screenshot of what I get in LB, is this not what you’re seeing?
Sorry, yes I see what you mean regarding the non-closed objects. I’ll have a play…
When you have the file imported, go to edit-select open shapes and put them on a different layer set to line.
Yep, that works.
What you have on the screen above is exactly what I am looking for. If I drag the pdf you sent into a new untitled LB screen this is what I get:
See how mine is outlined and yours is solid?
“Outline” (called wire-frame) mode is the default view in LightBurn, done this way because it’s the easiest to use with vector graphics.
If you use ‘Filled Rendering’, which is an option in the ‘Window’ menu, it can hide graphics behind filled shapes, but those will still be sent to the laser, and it also makes working with node editing more difficult, so we strongly recommend getting used to wire-frame mode, and just using Preview or filled rendering for spot-checking the work.
You can set the rendering in the main screen to be wireframe (the default) or filled, see screenshot
Marcus thank you for getting that pdf to work. Not sure why I could not have just dragged that in without all the conversions you had to do. I did just try another one “Amazing Grace” and it worked just fine so maybe the pdf on the site has some issues? Again thank you!
Oz and Marcus, thank you for explaining the “wireframe” that totally makes sense and I now get what Marcus had posted. I just love this software and the tremendous support behind it.
Thanks guys!
Mike thank you for the open shape answer. I always wondered about that and actually gave up on some projects. Learned a new thing and I am grateful!
You’re welcome. There might be a shorter route but that seemed to work.
The ‘In the garden’ file didn’t import correctly because most of it is done with text, and LightBurn doesn’t import text from PDFs yet because (long technical explanation about embedded fonts).
Marcus’ process of importing and re-exporting it as shapes did the conversion from text objects to just “shapes” that look like text, and that allowed LightBurn to import it all.
Yes, I noticed that it looked like the notes were actually text. When I moved my mouse pointer over the notes in Acrobat the ‘I beam’ cursor would rotate 90°, so it looks like it’s vertical text.
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