[MEI-L] Encoding <graphic> as part of multipage file

Andrew Hankinson andrew.hankinson at mail.mcgill.ca
Wed May 10 13:38:01 CEST 2017


Hi Urs,

Since the guidelines are collaboratively developed on GitHub, if you can see a suitable place to mention it please do so, and submit it as a pull request. I would be happy to review it ASAP.

https://github.com/music-encoding/music-encoding/tree/develop/source/guidelines

Cheers,
-Andrew

> On 9 May 2017, at 23:44, Urs Liska <ul at openlilylib.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Johannes,
> 
> thanks for the explanation.
> 
> Am 09.05.2017 um 23:16 schrieb Johannes Kepper:
>> Hi Urs,
>> 
>> you should have a separate <surface> for each page in the PDF. 
>> 
> 
> This was clear from the description.
> 
>> Then, each <surface> holds a <graphic> of its own, which in turn has a @target reference to the corresponding PDF page. 
> 
> This too.
> 
>> According to Adobe, the right way to point at a specific PDF page is like so:
>> 
>> <A HREF=
>> "http://www.example.com/myfile.pdf#page=4"
>> >
>> 
>> Following their lead, this means you have to append an "#page=NUMBER" at the end of the reference to the PDF file.
>> 
> 
> This not. So thanks.
> 
> Would this be the same for multi-page TIFF files (don't need this currently, but just for completeness)?
> And wouldn't it be good to have the option mentioned in the Guidelines? As I read the section for the first time I was led to believe one couldn't use multi-page images.
> 
> Urs
> 
>> 
>> Best,
>> jo
>> 
>> Cf. 
>> https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/link-html-pdf-page-acrobat.html
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Am 09.05.2017 um 23:10 schrieb Urs Liska <ul at openlilylib.org>
>>> :
>>> 
>>> I don't understand how I can encode a <graphic> within a <surface> when it is a page from a multi-page document, e.g. PDF.
>>> 
>>> The example in 12.1 of the Guidelines only quotes single-page .jpg references, and the entry in the data dictionary doesn't seem to help either.
>>> 
>>> Thank you for any clarification
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