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The Allegro Appassionato, Op.43 (Saint-Saëns, Camille) does not have any sheet music at the link. It must have been deleted?

I think someone uploaded an International ed. which is still copyright a few weeks back, which had to be deleted. I may have accidentally left that page standing. It will be deleted eventually - unless, of course, you have a nice PD edition to upload!

If I take all the Text (www.everynote.com) off this pdf with photoshop would it be "ok" to reupload it?

http://imslp.org/wiki/Image:SSaen_Ce_AllApp43.pdf

It looks identical to an edition I have here which says
Copyright MCMXVII by Carl Fischer, New York

(1917 right?)

If you have a physical copy I'd suggest to rescan it at a higher quality. That pdf isn't print quality I'd say. It is much better than nothing though.

if you remove the trademarks and pictures, it will be ok to upload.

I have removed the trademark and pictures with photoshop. But somewhere along the line I lost the quality of the scan. Do you have any hints on keeping the quality? As you can see here is the original (with trademarks)
http://imslp.org/images/0/0a/SSaen_Ce_AllApp43.pdf

And here is my Photoshop work from the same file.

http://imslp.ca/images/imslp.ca/2/21/Sa ... Pianoa.pdf

It does take some time to do this kind of work. So I put in the effort I would like to see great results. How can I do these edits and still have the high quality with out the hugh size?

What I did:
(I use a Mac Powerbook G4.)
1. Use pdfsam-0.5b3.jar to split file (and to unlock it)
This gives me each page as an individual pdf file.

2. Open each page with Adobe Photoshop CS
Settings:
Name=000
Crop to = bounding box
(other possibilities are: Media Box, Crop Box,
Bleed Box, Trim Box, Art Box)
Resolution = 600 pixels/inch
(default was 72 pixels/inch)
Mode = Grayscale
(other possibilities are: RGB Color, CMYK Color, Lab Color)
Bit Depth = 8 bit
(other possibilities are: 16 bit)
Anti-aliased = checked

3. Use the Brush Tool and paint white all trademarks etc...

4. Use the Horizontal Type Tool to add text (titles, page numbers)

5. Save as:
Format Photoshop EPS
settings: Imbed Color Profile = checked

6. Click save
EPS Options:
Preview: = Macintosh (8 bit/ pixel)
(other possibilites are: None, TIFF (1 bit/pixel),
TIFF (8 bit/pixel), Macintosh (1 bit/pixel), Macintosh JEPG.)
Encoding: = ASCII85
(other possibilities are: ASCII, Binary, JPEG (low quality),
JPEG (medium quality), JPEG (high quality),
JPEG (maximum quality).)
Include Halftone Screen = not checked
Include Transfer Function = not checked
Postscript Color Management = not checked
Image Interpolation = not checked

7. Click OK

8. repeat steps 2-7 for each page

9. Use Adobe Acrobat Distiller to change all the EPS files to PDF files.

10. Use Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional to put all the PDF into 1 PDF file.


Thanks for your help!

I can't check since I have neither a Mac nor Photoshop, but my first guess would be the import into Photoshop. If that is the case, you could try to extract the individual images from the PDF file with pdfimages from the xpdf tools instead.

... and you can also use pdfsam to put the files together EPS files can be converted to PDF using ps2pdf on linux, but I'm not sure if it works on Windows, especially since it requires ghostscript.

Acrobat Professional (and maybe Distiller?) can also be the point of quality loss: acrobat must leave original resolution and compression intact - sometimes the program will recompress to make file size smaller.

Are you sure that there is no jpg compression ? In your final file, you can see grayscale, but the original file has black & white monotone. I think I can see jpg artifacts too. (zoom very closely . There must be a point somewhere that color scheme and compression are changed.

Speaking of merging 1-page files, there are a couple of titles from the NMA - including the Missa Brevis, K.192 - where someone has put up a series of one-page PDFs. If someone has a tool that can merge them quickly into a single file, I'm sure visitors would be very grateful.

In the same vein, I would like to draw everybody's attention (Diapason do you hear me ?) to PDFCreator (in a single word, not to be confused with PDF creator). This is a free and opensource PDF manipulation tool (including creation form any software and pdf merging) that deserves consideration.

http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator

Bah. PDF X-change

Same as Acrobat, except free.


Paul