The Trimming dialog is accessed from the Composite document wizard: see Composite document wizard or Editing a composite document file. It contains an Options editor panel and a Page editor window.

•To open the Trimming dialog, right-click a table-row to display the pop-up menu then choose Show clip-regions.
Click OK to close the Trimming dialog and return to the wizard.
•To open just the Options editor panel click Trimming....
Click OK to close the Trimming dialog and return to the wizard.
Options editor
•Select the Units used in the Trimming dialog from the drop-down list: choose from PIXELS, CM, MM, INCHES, 1/300 inch or 1/600 inch.
The mouse position is shown alongside.
•Select the Scale at which pages are shown in the Page editor window: choose from 300%, 200%, 150%, 100%, 75%, 50%, 33%, 25% or Fit window (the default).

Changes made with the mouse in the Page editor are fed directly into the Options editor. Changes made in the Options editor can be seen into the Page editor by clicking Apply. If there are no clip-regions shown in the Page editor when 'Apply' is clicked, EscapeE defaults to displaying the clip-regions which it would have selected for a Close packed layout.

These boxes log the part of the original document to be extracted as a clip-region:

Left

Distance between left side of clip-region and the origin of the container element (typically the top-left of the PAGE or PRINTABLE page): see CLIPX.

Top

Distance between top of clip-region and the origin of the container element: see CLIPY.

Width

Width of clip-region: see CLIPWIDTH.

Height

Height of clip-region: see CLIPHEIGHT.

There are a number of specialist options for music part extraction, see below.
Music options

EscapeE recognizes many features of musical notation and can mark out each staff as a clip-region automatically. (You may also create/edit the clip-regions manually using the mouse in the Page editor – see Music part extraction.) You can choose which features are to be included in these clip-regions in the Options editor:

Staves

The number of parts found is shown in the spin-box.

•To change the number of parts, edit the spin-box or click the up/down arrow buttons.
•Part-numbers may be added to the right of each stave: tick Number the staves.

Has lyrics
•Tick box to expand each staff's clip-region to include lyric text.

Headers

Header text can be recognized and labeled (H).

•Tick box to outline a clip-region around each header found.

Footers

Footer text can be recognized and labeled (F).

•Tick box to outline a clip-region around each footer found.

Tacets

Tacets can be recognized, labeled (Tacet), and the clip-region given a gray background.

•Tick box to outline a clip-region around each tacet found.

Field

The number in the spin-box identifies the clip-region which is outlined in red in the Page editor window.

•To select a different clip-region, click the up/down arrow buttons.
•The position of the top-left corner of the field is shown in the X and Y boxes. Edit these values as required.
•The size of the field is shown in the Width and Height boxes. Edit these values as required.

Choir Parts

Combines the staves together in 'choirs' as specified in the Splitting dialog.

Scanned

Tick if the input file is an image produced by a scanner (rather than constructed precisely by a program). The image is likely to appear with various degrees of shading and you may need to adjust the thresholds and alignment.

Threshold

A number in the range 0 to 254 that sets the point below which gray is deemed to be 'white' and equal or above which, 'black'. (Default is blank.)

Min stave

The minimum number of black pixels required to recognize a stave line. (Default is blank.)

Max black between

The maximum number of black pixels allowed between Systems of staves and between individual Staves. (Default is blank.)

Auto-align

Automatically correct slight misalignments of staves to the horizontal, or

Angle

Enter a number (in degrees) to correct gross misalignments of staves from the horizontal.

 

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