Landscape to Portrait

[jacobbarrow]

Howdy!

I’m a software engineer, and I just built a little program to turn those pesky two-pages-in-landscape PDFs into single portrait pages, as is good and correct.

Would something like that be useful to this community? If so, is there a way for me to contribute the converted files here?

I’ve come across a couple of scores just by randomly clicking around that are formatted this way, but I had two questions:

1. Is there somewhere I can re-upload the converted versions?
2. Does anyone know of a list of which scores are actually arranged in this landscape/two-page format?

Thanks!

Jacob
(just a guy who got bored)

[coulonnus]

I’m a software engineer, and I just built a little program to turn those pesky two-pages-in-landscape PDFs into single portrait pages, as is good and correct.
Would something like that be useful to this community? If so, is there a way for me to contribute the converted files here?

Do you mean producing one portrait page with two landscape pages, accepting the inconvenience of an about .7 page-size diminution ? Then perhaps you can expand https://imslp.org/wiki/Help:Downloading ... _pdf_files or https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Image_Conversion or create a new page, explaining your process.

Landscape pages are common in organ repertoire and in concerts I see many performers doing so.

Sometimes I transform a landscape page into a portait page, without size reduction, creating 3 lines with 2/3 of a line, 1/3 of this line and 1/3 of the next, and the last 2/3 of this line. See e.g. https://imslp.org/wiki/Gaitilla_de_mano ... ti%C3%A1n)
A program to this automatically would be usuful! And in some extreme cases I retypeset it e.g. https://imslp.org/wiki/3_Piano_Sonatas% ... 2C_Joseph)

[coulonnus]

To those confronted with "pesky" pages, scanned or typeset by you or someone else, organ or other instrument, I recommend https://www.organscore.com/

"Many organists know the ritual all too well: taping photocopies together—a time-consuming practice that often results in reduced note size and unnecessary eye strain."