The music notation was done using Finale software. I then exported pages of the score as TIFF files. No plugins or scripts were needed.

I have used Finale since 1997. In 2001 I created a website to post my arrangements and transcriptions:

http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/LICHTMANN/

How did you put the musical score in indesign?
Have some plugin or script?

Thanks

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I wanted to have the pages automatically turn when the the music reaches the end of the page but couldn’t figure out a way to set that up in InDesign. I know it can be done in Flash Professional. Adobe Sound Booth even gives you a way to include ActionScript cue points and use them to trigger actions like a page turn.

Is there a way to do this in InDesign?

Jay

I should’ve known. There seemed to be something a little ish about your comment.

Michael-

Thanks for jumping in. Couldn’t have said it better myself. Heck, who could?

David-

Something like that would do the trick, but I don’t think there’s any way to do it.

Meaning, even when you’ve created interactive content within a document, InDesign is still a WYSIWYP (a.k.a. What You See Is What You Print) application. ID CS5 always shows your document in the Layout view as the version of the document that prints.

A bonus feature of the new Object States panel is that you can use it to manage multiple images, but treat them as a single page item without having to Group them first. Whatever State clicked on in the Object States panel becomes the initially visible image, and thereby also defining which gets printed as well.

It this context, it’s almost like a mini version of Conditional Images, like the Conditional Text feature added in CS4 for those of you know what that is. I’ve also heard it is kind of like a “Layer Comp” feature, (in AI and PS, but not ID) but at the object level.

One last bit… A State in a Multi-State Object can contain anything you can place into or create directly in InDesign. If you have a selection of multiple selected page items, when you click on the New button in the Object State panel, each page item gets distributed into their own State, retaining their X,Y position on the page. If you want multiple page items to end up in the same state instead of getting distributed, simply Group those page items first.

Whew!

(But what does happen with interactive multi-state stuff if you try to print it?)

I don’t see why it wouldn’t, assuming you started with decent-looking images at adequate resolution. The mask is vector, so it’ll be fine. But then InDesign’s going to downsample and color convert images to RGB for the SWF. You can experiment in the Image Handling part of the Export SWF dialog box and see what you get.

An alternative is to leave the images as RGB and just set InDesign to convert to your destination color space when you make your print PDF. That way you wouldn’t sacrifice any vibrant RGB colors in the SWF.