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 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.

To print a score

1. 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.
2. Click OK.
3. Choose File > Print. 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.
4. Click OK. The printer should begin to print in a few moments.
5. To cancel printing, press ESCAPE 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. We’ve provided this basic primer on PDFs because many Finale NotePad users want to create PDFs: to publish on the Web, to E-mail to a friend, to give to publishers for further formatting, or to give to a print shop for printing. In order to *create* PDFs, you will need to buy Adobe Acrobat. For more information about these products, please visit Adobe’s website at www.adobe.com.

There’s more than one way to create a PDF, but this method will give you more control over the results. See your Adobe Acrobat manual for full details.

1. Open the file in Finale.

2. Choose File > Print. The Print dialog box appears.

3. From the Destination popup menu, choose File.

4. Click Save. The Save dialog box appears.

5. Give the file a name (you may wish to save it to the Desktop for convenience) and click Save.

6. Quit Finale and return to your Desktop.

7. Drag the PostScript Listing (*.PS) file to your Acrobat Distiller or launch the Acrobat Distiller and open the file. The Acrobat Distiller creates a PDF of your file in the same location and the same name before the period as your PostScript file.

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