If you want to print a full-size score
(11 by 17 inches, for example) and don’t have a printer capable of printing
on 11 by 17 inch paper, you have a dilemma. You could print your score
on letter or legal-size pages using your printer and then photocopy these
pages—using an enlarging copying machine—onto 11-by-17-inch paper; the
disadvantage is that enlarging your output in this way reduces the clarity
of the original printout.
Or, you could use Finale’s tiling pages
feature. Finale can automatically tile the pages—in other words, print
out several standard-size pages with a portion of the full score page
on each, so that you can then tape them together (and, if you wish, photocopy
the result onto large single pages).
To tile
pages with the Print dialog box
- Set the page size of your score to the proper
size. For example, 11 X 17 portrait. Use either the Page Format
for Score command in the Document Menu or the Page Layout Tool. (See Page layout
or Page size.)
- Choose Update Layout from the Edit Menu.
- From the File Menu, choose Page Setup. Choose
Landscape for the orientation, Letter for the page size and click OK.
Be sure Use Finale’s Page Orientation Instead of the Printer’s
Page Orientation is unchecked in Program
Options-Save.
- Select Print from the File Menu. In the dialog
box select Tile Pages. Specify the page range on which you’ll be printing.
Some printer drivers will allow you to specify the size of the component
pages (Letter or Legal) here. Other printer drivers store this information
in the Page Setup dialog box.
- Type the amount of overlap you want in the
Tile Overlap text box. This amount is specified in the units you
have selected in the Measurement Units submenu of the Edit Menu.
- Click Print.
To tile
pages (with Compile Postscript Listing)
Note, you must have a Postscript Printer
to perform these steps.
- Set the page size of your score to the proper
size. Use either the Page Format for Parts command in the Document
Menu or the Page Layout Tool. (See Page
layout or Page
size.) When entering the final, taped-together page dimensions,
the key is to subtract one inch for each page that will be side-by-side
with another. If your score is to be 11 by 16 inches, for example, it
will be composed of two letter-size pages taped together. Therefore, set
the page height to 10 inches (not 11). For the width, enter 15 inches
(remember, you’re subtracting one inch for each page that will be side-by-side).
By subtracting one inch from each dimension
in this way, you provide for a half-inch margin of overlap on each page,
so that the resultant pages will be easier to tape together.
- Choose Update Layout from the Edit Menu.
- Choose Compile PostScript Listing from the
File Menu. The Compile PostScript Listing dialog box appears.
- Click Tile Pages. Specify the page range and
the size of the component pages (Letter or Legal) on which you’ll be printing.
Click Center Music on Page if you want the printed image of the
full score page to be centered on the taped-together physical page; if
you don’t specify this option, the music will appear beginning in the
upper-left corner of each full-size page, requiring you to cut off the
extra paper on the right and bottom margins, if necessary.
If you also select Include All Fonts in
Listing, Finale will embed the actual music fonts into the PostScript
file. The resulting file will be larger, but you won’t have to worry that
your music fonts aren’t installed on the computer that will ultimately
be doing the printing.
- Click Compile. To print the resultant
compiled file, you’ll need a downloading program such as the LaserWriter
Font Utility. For more information, see PostScript.
For best results, have a paper cutter on hand to trim the default quarter-inch
margins created by a PostScript printer on each page that you’ll be taping
together.
