Printing
Portrait orientation is the usual setup—the page is taller than it is wide; Landscape
orientation is “sideways.” Letter size is 8.5 by 11 inches; Legal
size is 8.5 by14 inches.
- Choose File > Page Setup.
The Page Setup dialog box appears. Click Letter or Legal to specify the
paper size. Specify the orientation by clicking Portrait or Landscape.
- Make sure your page layout matches the paper
size and orientation you’ve just specified(unless Use Finale’s Page Orientation
Instead of Printer’s Page Orientation is checked in Preferences-Save
and Print, in which case the
printer’s orientatation is ignored). See Page size for instructions.
- Click OK (or press RETURN).
If you’re in Page View, go to page 1.
- Choose Utilities > Update Layout.
By choosing Update Layout, you’re reformatting the music so that no measures
are unnecessarily wide or narrow.
- Choose File > Print. The Select Score and Parts for Printing dialog
box appears where you can select the parts and/or score you want to print.
Check the desired items, specify the number of copies and click OK.
The Print dialog box appears letting you specify the range of pages to
print. If you only want the first page to print, type 1 in both the From
and To boxes.
- Click OK (or press RETURN).
The printer should begin to print in a few moments.
- To cancel printing, press COMMAND+period
(.). Because the computer
sends data to the printer faster than the printer can process it, there
will be a momentary pause before the computer and printer stop printing.
See Tiling
pages for printing.
See Printing
linked parts.
To print marching band parts formatted to print two pages per 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper, stacked vertically:
- Start your marching band score using the "Marching Band" Document Style or "Marching Band" template. See Document Styles and Finale Score Templates. If you are working with a score that you did not start one of these two ways, set the part page size to octavo. To do so choose Document > Page Format > Parts. Choose Page Size > Octavo (6.75 x 10.5), set the orientation to Landscape, and click OK. Then, click the Page Layout tool , and choose Page Layout Menu > Redefine Pages > [the pages and parts you wish to change to octavo]. Click OK.
- Choose File > Print. Choose the parts you would like to print and click OK.
- Click the third pop-up menu from the top (it reads "Copies and Pages" by default) and choose Layout. Set "Pages per sheet" to 2 and then set the desired layout direction.
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Click Print.