Printing
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 by14 inches. If you’re
printing on a PostScript printer, make sure that the PostScript fonts
are installed in you system. This is done automatically with the PrintMusic
Easy Install. (See Fonts
for tips on choosing fonts.)
- From
the File menu, choose 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. See Page
size for instructions.
- Click
OK (or press return).
If you’re in Page View, go to page 1.
- From
the Edit menu, choose Update Layout. By choosing Update Layout,
you’re reformatting the music so that no measures are unnecessarily wide
or narrow.
- From
the File menu, choose 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.
- 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.
Under normal circumstances, PrintMusic
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. While printing, you may also wish to use the
orientation specified in the Page
Setup dialog box instead of the orientation specified in the
Print dialog box.
