Step 1: Installation
Installing PrintMusic onto your hard disk is easy.
Before you begin installing PrintMusic, make sure there’s enough room on your hard disk to hold the program and its associated files. For a full installation, you’ll need about one hundred megabytes (100,000K) of free space on your hard disk. You should also bear in mind that, like many other software programs, PrintMusic creates and makes use of “temporary files” during its normal operations, which it then deletes from your hard disk when you exit the program. We recommend having an additional ten megabytes (10,000K) of free disk space for these files.
- Insert the PrintMusic disc into your CD/DVD drive. Its icon appears on your desktop.
- Double-click the CD/DVD icon. The contents of the CD/DVD appear on your screen.
- Double-click the installer icon. You are prompted to enter your computer administrator’s password.
- Enter your password and click OK. In a moment, the PrintMusic installer screen appears.
- Follow the instructions on the screen until the installation is complete. The PrintMusic Installer lets you select which files you want installed and where you want them placed on your hard disk. For the most part, you can press Return to confirm the defaults. When you open an older Finale family notation file (choose File, then Open and navigate to your older file), PrintMusic takes a moment to convert it into the new format, then opens it as an “Untitled” file. If you save the file in PrintMusic using the same name as before, you will not be able to reopen that file using an earlier version of PrintMusic. It is suggested, therefore, that you save the file with a slightly different name (for instance, “My Score” could become “My Score 2”), unless you are sure that you won’t need to reopen the file in an earlier version of PrintMusic.
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