Resize tool
This tool lets you reduce or enlarge a staff, system, page, or all the music in a piece.
When you use it at the staff level, you can create a cue staff. However, you’ll probably
use this tool most often to reduce the overall size of the music. It’s
important that you choose Update Layout from the Utilities menu after you reduce
or enlarge a system, a page, or the entire piece so that PrintMusic corrects
any irregularities in measure widths introduced by the change.
When this tool is selected, PrintMusic displays
the Resize dialog box—where you can specify the amount of reduction or
enlargement—any time you click a musical element (see Special mouse clicks,
below). See Reducing/Enlarging for
further instructions.
Special mouse clicks
- In
Page View, click to the left of a staff to reduce or enlarge the
staff.
- In
Page View, click between and to the left of any two staves to reduce
or enlarge the entire system.
- In
Page View, click the upper-left corner of a page to reduce or enlarge
that page, a range of pages beginning with the one you clicked, or all
pages from the one you clicked through the last page of the file.
Contextual menus
Contextual menus are reached by control-clicking on an object. A contextual
menu will be displayed where you can select various items.
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menu item
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What it does
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Resize Page
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Display the Resize Page dialog box
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Resize System
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Display the Resize Staff System dialog
box
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Resize Staff
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Display the Resize Staff dialog box
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See Also:
Main tool
palette