Reducing/Enlarging
You can enlarge or reduce these elements
of your music: a staff, a system, or a page. The limits of the Resize
tool are 10% to 1000%.
To
reduce or enlarge a staff or system
You must be in Page View to reduce or enlarge
a staff or system.
- Click
the Resize tool
.
- Click
to the left of a staff (to resize the staff), or to the left of or between
any two staves (to resize the system). The Resize Staff (or Staff
System) dialog box appears, asking you how you want to resize the staff
or system.
- Enter
the desired reduction or enlargement percentage. Specify the range of
systems you want to affect. Click OK.
- Choose
Update Layout from the Edit menu. To restore a staff or system
to its original size, click to the left of the staff or system with the
Resize tool. When the dialog box appears, enter 100 (%) and click OK.
To reduce or enlarge all the music on
a page (or the entire piece)
Use this technique for reducing or enlarging
the printed size of the music itself, including text and expressions (without
changing the actual page size). You must be in Page View to reduce or
enlarge a page.
- Click
the Resize tool .
- Click
the upper-left corner of the first page you want to resize. The
Resize Page dialog box appears.
- Enter
the reduction or enlargement percentage.
- Specify
the pages you want to resize. Click
OK. As always, whenever you perform an operation that changes
the measure widths, you should update the measure layout.
- Choose
Update Layout from the Edit menu.
To reduce or enlarge fretboards
See Resize
Fretboards dialog box.
