How to get there
Choose Page View from the View Menu.
What it does
Page View is one of two SongWriter views of your music (the other is Scroll View). This is the default view and the view the Default File shipped with SongWriter presents you with when you open a new document. In Page View, you see your music exactly as it will be printed: laid out in systems, displaying page-attached as well as measure-attached text blocks, and stretching the measures as needed so that each line of music is flush with the margins. Because of this stretching effect, music that appears a little crowded in Scroll View often looks just right in Page View.
Every SongWriter tool works in Page View. The Selection tool has some features that are available in one view but not the other. In addition, Page View has a few features of its own, accessible from the View Menu. If you choose Fit in Window, SongWriter will reduce the view of your music just enough to fit the entire page onto the screen at once.
In general, Page View is slightly slower than Scroll View. Each time the screen redraws, for example, SongWriter not only has to draw more music, but must also perform many more calculations (to lay out the page, for example).
If you notice in Page View that the measures are unevenly spaced, remember that SongWriter doesn’t constantly rebalance the measure layout as you work. In fact, SongWriter doesn’t recalculate the measure widths until you tell it to do so—by choosing Update Layout from the Edit Menu. This essential command reformats every page, from the one you’re viewing to the end of the piece, neatly laying out evenly spaced measures and justifying them perfectly with the margins. (If you need to update the measure layout for the entire piece, as you should always do just before printing, choose the Update Layout command either in Scroll View or on page 1 of Page View.)
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