To print a score
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 by 14 inches. If you’re printing on a PostScript printer, make sure that the PostScript fonts are installed in you system. This is done automatically during installation. Although many items appear in color on your screen, NotePad will not print the display colors. This feature is available in PrintMusic and Finale.
Choose Page Setup from the File menu. The Page Setup dialog box appears. Click Letter or Legal to specify the paper size. Specify the orientation by clicking Portrait or Landscape.
Click OK.
Choose Print from the File menu. The Print dialog box appears, letting you specify the number of copies and 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. The printer should begin to print in a few moments.
To cancel printing, press Esc or click Cancel. 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.
Note: If any page of your document does not match the orientation and/or page size specified in the Page Setup dialog box, your print results may be different than expected. If this is the case, consider editing settings in the Page Setup dialog box to accommodate the document's size and/or orientation.
Landscape and Portrait orientation
Under normal circumstances, NotePad prints your pages in portrait orientation—with the page taller than it is wide. For some scores, however, you may want the page turned sideways, in landscape orientation. For instructions on printing in landscape orientation, see above.
Legal-size paper
When you lay out your score for legal-size (8.5 by 14-inch) paper, there are two settings you have to make. First, choose Legal from the Page Setup dialog box. (see above) Second, make sure you’ve created a NotePad score with the appropriate dimensions (See Setup Wizard).
To create a PDF document from a NotePad notation file
The Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) was developed by the Adobe company to provide a universal file format that preserves the fonts, formatting and graphics of a source document, regardless of what platform or application was used to create it. PDF files can be shared, viewed and printed by anyone with a free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
To create a PDF, in OS X's Print dialog box, click the Save as PDF button.
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