PrintMusic Launch Window

The PrintMusic Launch Window saves you time by putting everything at your fingertips. Open files, access the Setup Wizard or templates, watch videos, access the Installation and Tutorial Guide and more.

Setting-up your score

PrintMusic’s Setup Wizard helps you get up and running quickly.

Just answer a few questions

What instruments or voices do you want? You can even select from pre-defined ensembles or create your own. What key? Time signature? Music font? Tempo?

PrintMusic will set up your score, complete with staves in correct order, instrument transpositions, tempo marking, staff groupings, intelligent page layout that automatically adjusts system position, size, and space between staves to reduce white space on the page.

You can also choose from a wide variety of personal document styles, specify the number of measures in your score, and insert text for the title, composer, arranger, lyricist, copyright and a sub-title.

Templates

When creating a full score, a worksheet, quiz or even a dissertation, the easiest way to start is simply to open a pre-created template from the launch window.

Select a pre-made template then let PrintMusic’s Setup Wizard do the rest, adding text (including title, composer, copyright, arranger and lyricist) as well as key/time signatures, pickup measures, tempo markings, and the number of measures.

Music Fonts

PrintMusic includes a choice of fonts used for notation and text in your music.

Finale Percussion™ Font – NEW in PrintMusic 2011

Many publishers use icons to represent standard percussion instruments in their scores. This font contains the most complete collection of percussion characters available. Also included are handbell symbols and many unique characters including castanets, vibraslap, cannon and repeatable characters like sine waves, scribbles, and more.

Finale Mallets Font

This font includes icons to represent any variety of mallet usages, including the ability to create cross-mallet symbols. As an example you could use images to indicate that the performer should use a hard and soft mallet in the left hand, and a medium and steel mallet in the right hand.

The following fonts are included in PrintMusic:

Maestro
Broadway Copyist
Broadway Copyist (example showing text and music)
Jazz

Create the look you want with Personal Document Styles. Customize the appearance of new documents by controlling text and music fonts, page layout, and more.

Document Styles

Choose from a wide variety of document styles to instantly personalize the appearance of new documents, controlling text and music fonts, all libraries, text, graphics, and page layout.

Simply select a Document Style on the first screen of the Set-up Wizard to get the visual results you want, and save time.

Documents Styles control:

• text and music fonts
• text inserts
• available expressions, articulations, document settings, etc…
• page size and orientation
• page layout