Fit Measures

How to get there

In Page View, click the Selection tool  , and select a region of full measures. From the Utilities menu, choose Fit Measures. Or click the Page Layout tool  . From the Page Layout menu, choose Fit Measures.

What it does

Using this powerful page-layout command, you can force PrintMusic to place a group of selected measures onto one line (staff system) on the page. Or you can select a larger region of measures, and tell PrintMusic to place them in groups of 4 (or any other number) per line. The Fit Measures command also allows you to lock the measure grouping and the contents.

• Lock Layout with ___ Measures per System. This option lets you specify how many measures per line you want for the region you’ve selected.
• Lock Selected Measures Into One System. Click this option if you want PrintMusic to place all the selected measures into the same line of music (system).

Both of these options work by placing the selected measures into locked configurations. When the measures are locked, a lock icon will appear next to the system. See the View menu for more information about displaying or hiding these non-printing lock icons. For more on measure groups, see Installation & Tutorials.

• Remove System Locks. Click this option to remove all locked measures for the selected systems. This will allow PrintMusic to move measures to different systems when updating your layout.
• Change: Whole Document · Measure ___ thru ___ . Click on the Whole Document radio button to lock every system in the score. Click on Measure thru Measure to lock only the measures entered in the text boxes.
• OK · Cancel. Click OK (or press return) to confirm, or Cancel to discard, your measure-layout settings and return to the score. If you clicked OK, PrintMusic performs the measure-layout action and automatically chooses Update Layout from the Edit menu. If you are displaying System Locks, your changed systems will now display them. See View menu.

To undo measure groups you’ve created in this way, choose Update Layout from the Edit menu while pressing shift.

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