EECS 2311 Group 1 TAB2PDF
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1. 7 7 ee ne eee pees Unsaved Changes Viewing your Output In the Tabs click the Preview tab to view a preview of the PDF When the user clicks on the Preview tab the program will render any changes saved or made to the input file and create a new preview reflecting these changes H R BRIQAMAAeY BS Moonlight Sonata Ludwig van Beethoven Within the preview panel the user has all the typical options available in a PDF viewer app Here the user can print zoom in scroll etc The user has the option of either saving the PDF file using the button in the preview panel or to click on the Export to PDF button found in the toolbar This button will launch the default PDF reader on the user s computer The user can then save the PDF in any location they wish by using their default PDF reader s Save As button Customizing the Output On the left side of the user interface there are four panels below the toolbar The Song Title and Song Subtitle let you change the song title and subtitle to be displayed at the top of the PDF The Vertical Scaling Panel allows the user to change the overall vertical scaling of the PDF output This will allow the user to make the bars notes and tabs larger or smaller The Horizontal Spacing Panel allows the user to choose how much horizontal space will exist between the fret notes in the PDf2. tab is automatically selected on start up of the application To get back to the text editor screen simply click on the Editor tab The text editor allows you to change the file If the user has not specified the title subtitle or spacing values in the tab they can do so in the Song Title Song Subtitle and Horizontal Spacing panels Editor Preview Song Title Input Editor Moonlight Sonata a Song Subtitle AE aac e g Ludwig van Beethoven pe ipene a 3 i GE l l l 1 1 7 2 2 2 2 2 2 y SARN 2 l 2 i 2 Hi ne 2 l p aa pa Narrow Wide els Se A ee Vertical Scaling j ee Wide 1 1 _ s 3 g 1 o 0 1 2 2 3 3 1 2 a 1 3 3 q 3 2 2 2 _ Q Users can change text files in the input editor and then save changes to the text file using the Save Tab button in the Toolbar E oven te fg eT F gt eourtioror E ver ans Preview If the user chooses to close the application without saving the changes they made to the input file in the text editor an Unsaved Changes message will pop up This pop up will ask the user if they would like to save the changes they have made to the file before exiting the program
3. the input Users should align fret notes that should be played together vertically and separate fret notes should be placed at least one dash away to clarify the sequence In the example below it is evident that the first frets played are the 2 and 3 as they are in the same column then after a 2 is played When it comes to frets that are two digits in length the fret number will take up the space of two dashes and the digit will be separated from the next note by one dash The program will read the amount of dashes in between the fret notes and translate this to equivalent spacing on the output Column Eo eee eee eee E UE i E a maa aa a Repeats The program allows the user to input tab repeat bars in multiple formats and convert them to a standard musical notation in the PDF output This will notify the user on what kind of repeat is specified in the music and how many times a repeat is necessary In order to display a repeat the input must contain on all six lines of the bar as well as two on the 3rd and Ath lines The can be on the left right or both sides of the repeat symbol this will be changed by the program into a solid circle If the user wishes to have the section repeat a number of times x must be written on the first line of the repeat bars where x is the number of times the user would like the section to repeat The types of repeats include Tab Repeat Type Sheet Music Repeat Slid
4. through the GUI slider Song Title Moonlight Sonatal Song Subtitle Ludwig van Beethoven Horizontal Spacing Narrow Wide Vertical Scaling Narrow Wide Horizontal Spacing Narrow Wide Vertical Scaling 3 3 r biere Ca P a Narrow Wide a Namo Oan Wide Vertical Scaling Narrow Wide Scaling The space inbetween the vertical lines Horizontal Spacing alos Wide 4 4 qd Vertical Scaling 2 2 2 7 Te 2 2 Narrow Wide 0 Saving Changes to your Input File 1 Make changes to the tab file in the input editor or customization panels 2 Click the Save button in the toolbar or in the File menu Program Status Bar At the bottom of the user interface there is a program status bar Here the user can see the path to the input file they selected as well as a symbol count and possible error messages Program Status Source File C Users Anton Desktop Tab2PDF samples moonlightsonata txt Symbols Number 11560 Tool Tips and Help If you are unsure on what the function of a button is hovering over the button for a few seconds will bring up a tooltip pop up Tool tips provide the user with a quick description of what a button does in the user interface If the user does not understand something in the program the user interface provides a button called User Manual in the toolbar as well as a button in the help menu which links the user manual for the program o PDF User Ma
5. EECS 2311 Group 1 TAB2PDF USER MANUAL Table of Contents O CON DWM RAUN e e e e Se Installing and Opening the Program The Graphical User Interface GUI Selecting a file for conversion Editing your file Previewing your File Customizing the Output Saving changes to your Input file Program Status Bar Tool Tips and Help Exiting the program Troubleshooting Accepted Syntax Title Subtitle and Spacing Horizontal Line Vertical Line Fret Numbers Repeats Slides Hammer on Pull off gt main 0 Qaod Harmonics Muted String Triple Bar tt o o e e Installing and Opening the Program Once you have downloaded and saved the TAB2PDF jar file to a directory on your computer you can open it up by double clicking on the file This will launch the program This will work for Windows Linux and OSX computers The Graphical User Interface GUI The interface is divided up into a menu bar toolbar tabs customization panel status panel editor and preview panels The menu bar contains a file menu and a help menu On the left side there is a panel containing a song title editor song subtitle editor horizontal spacing and vertical scaling sliders The toolbar contains four buttons called Open Tab Save Tab Export to Pdf and User Manual Under the toolbar is two tabs one for the editor panel and the other for the preview panel While in the editor tab the screen contains an input edit
6. es To display a slide from one note to another the input must contain this form XsX where X is any valid fret number The s will then be converted to a in the PDF The same output will occur even if there exists any amount of in XsX call Hammer on Pull off To display hammer ons pull offs the input must contain this form XhX XpX where X is any valid fret number The same output will occur even if there exists any amount of in XhX or XpX The program will take the input and produce a small arc over the two frets specified as well as a small h or p over the arc 2 3 2 5 5 h3 h3 4 1 Harmonics To display a harmonic the input must contain this form lt X gt where X is any valid fret The output will be converted to the fret number with a diamond symbol on the right side of the fret i24 Ho ir A ji I Gii T T Muted String To display a muted string the input must contain a x on the fretboard for where the muted string is meant to be played The output will also print a x character in the same location Triple Bar To display a triple bar the input must contain the form When aligned vertically the program will print a triple bar to the PDF The location of the triple bar in the input file will translate to the same location in the outp
7. nual Opens the Help litor If the user is still unsure of how to properly format an input file the help menu offers two sample tab files that are properly formatted as reference The user can also access these files within the zip file that comes with the jar file e User Manual L i eee ee Sample Tabs Moonlight Sonata About Remembering Rain Exiting the Program On the frame of the program window find your computer s native close application button and press it or go into the file menu in the menu bar and click Exit Troubleshooting If the program did not open make sure that Java is up to date on your computer Accepted Syntax The following section refers to the syntax supported by the system any other features within an input file will be ignored and left out of the output Title Subtitle and Spacing The program will look for the keywords Title Subtitle and Spacing at the un header of the tab and read whatever comes after the and assign those to the arguments mentioned The formatting is case insensitive and will work for keywords that are all capitalized all lower case or a combination of upper and lower case If the user chooses not to include anything for the title or subtitle these will be assumed to be blank for the output The user can add titles subtitles and spacing values with the customization options in the user interface If the s
8. or panel where the user can display and edit their tab files When in the preview tab the user can preview how the PDF will look after any changes made in the editor tab ial Oo File Help Open Tab m Save Tab gt Export to PDF User Manual Hr Song Title Input Editor Moonlight Sonatal Song Subtitle Se Re nec ea een ee a a Ee a ae ae a a ae Pe a ae ae ee A aA Ludwig van Beethoven 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 27 Horizontal Spacing Narrow Vertical Scaling Narrow l 0 0 a j 1 ee 3 3 3 3 2 a eee 4 4 4 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 27 Program Status Source File C Users Anton Desktop Tab2PDF samples moonlightsonata txt Symbols Number 11494 Selecting a File for Conversion 1 In the File menu in the menu bar click Open or the Open Tab button on the toolbar 2 Browse your file system and locate the file to convert Double click the file or click once on the file and then click Open 4 The content of the file is now shown in the input editor panel Editing your File TAB2PDF allows the user to edit the file they have chosen with a text editor displayed on screen The text editor
9. pacing is not specified it will be assigned a base value that can later be changed within the GUI TITLE Moonlight Sonata SUBTITLE Ludwig van Beethoven SPACING 5 String Lines By placing six rows of dashes the user can represent the string lines of a guitar fretboard Then in order to add fret numbers the user should erase the dash in the correct row and relative location within the row then type the desired fret number The user is responsible for aligning fret numbers that should be played together but in different rows vertically in columns By aligning the fret numbers along the dash entries the program will translate this order onto a PDF Dashes should be in between bar lines and aligned such that there is the Same amount of dashes notes on each row An example of this can be seen below Column ee ee ee i a 2225 4 ee a a O Vertical Bar Lines The program will replace the characters found in the input files with vertical bar lines in the same location The input should contain six aligned vertically The program will ignore any other symbols in the guitar tab that are not a part of a vertical sequence e e _ a oi Fret Numbers The program will read all single or double digit numbers from the input file within range of O 24 these digits represent the fret numbers of a guitar tab All numbers are outputted in the same order as they appeared in
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