FrettyCharts Help Manual

Getting Started

Introduction

Sample Gallery

Using the Application

Managing Projects

Product Registration

Editing

Adding a Chord

Adding a Scale

Adding a Group

Editing Chords

Editing Scales

Setting the Tuning

Rendering

Render Project

Render Item

Printing

Styles

Managing Styles

General Settings

Preview

Colors

Text and Fonts

Sizing

Spacing

Fret Layout

Markers

Barre Chords

Display Items

Project Settings

HTML Rendering

MIDI Audio

Chord Naming Rules

Introduction

Welcome to FrettyCharts Help Manual. This document describes how to use all of the features in FrettyCharts. If you're new to FrettyCharts it's a good idea to read through the Getting Started sections to learn about what the software can do. Use the table of contents on the left to find a particular topic of interest.

Sample Gallery

Start by taking a look through a sample website rendered from a FrettyCharts project. This shows a range of rendering options that are available.

View Sample Gallery

A similar FrettyCharts project is available as a tutorial in the Existing Projects list, when you first start with the application. It's a good idea to open the project and browse around it to see how FrettyCharts works.

Overview

FrettyCharts is designed to let you build libraries of chord and scale charts for stringed instruments. You can organize your charts into groups, for example: Minor Chords, G Chords, or DADGAD Scales. FrettyCharts will automatically name chords if you like, which saves a lot of time and mistakes.

When you're ready to use the charts, you can render them into a variety of image formats such as JPEG and PNG. Book authors can render charts to publisher friendly formats such as Adobe PDF. Furthermore, you can design your own image look and feel by setting colors, fonts, image orientation, barre-chord styles, size, spacing, fingering decorations and many more.

With just a few clicks, FrettyCharts will take your chart library and create a website. The HTML files are ready to publish to the internet, with colors and fonts matching the chord styles. You can also have audio MIDI files added to the website, which are played by clicking on the matching chord/scale chart. For the more technically minded the website appearance can be customized in detail.