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Mike:
“Meanwhile, I’ve stumbled across a relatively easy way to import PDF files generated by Encore into Finale/Sibelius/MuseScore. There’s even a free way to do this as long as one is willing to do it one page at a time.”This is probably because of Pdf to Music Pro.
As you wish. But Don is digging his own grave. The customer is not a sheep of the flock. Don’s attitude of “despising” his customers (even deleting critical comments from the forum), seems to me a notorious lack of empathy and sensitivity.
Of course, Don has ensured the exodus of Overture users to other products, except for a few exceptions of unconditional followers who accept a specific situation, which for others is unacceptable.
Because of my age, I am not going to make a move, but I think that younger users will think about it. Overture is a great program and some will hope that its development will be continued. But, let’s be realistic: Four years have already passed! And there is practically no hopeful news.
What a pity. For my part I’m going to leave the kind discussion, because I think you and I are at the antipodes of the perception of how a serious company should behave with its customers.We all have problems. But Don should explain himself to his customers. I think that when he does (if he does), he will no longer have customers. They will all have migrated. I am very disappointed with him. Overture 5 is a true work of art. But it lacks functional refinement. It fails more than a shotgun with continuous crashes. Absurd collisions. It doesn’t work well in XML imports and exports… and more. The list of bugs and improvements to be made, no need for me to say it. Don himself has them listed in the improvements and adjustments he has to make for the “next” (if there is one) version of Overture. I’ll help myself for now, but the improvements are much needed. Don’s silence seems disrespectful to me.
I hope you are not amused by what I am telling you about Encore, because it is very true. I am a choir conductor and I started digitizing scores in 2003 with Encore. I immediately realized that with this software I could not write the scores as I wanted, because it had and has many shortcomings (graphical and sound). Well then: At the end of 2004 I discovered an (apparently) amateur program (Harmony Assistant). It is a program with a very affordable license and lifetime. To this day I am fully satisfied. It is an incredible tool for choirs. Tremendously intuitive and very complete in all its sections. It imports and exports in more than 25 different extensions (including all Encore files).
I also have a license for Overture 5, for other works, but Don has abandoned us.Translated with DeepL.com
