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 Utilities > Update Layout 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 (this step is unnecessary if you have Automatic Update Layout enabled in PrintMusic 2014 > Preferences).

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 within a staff to reduce or enlarge the staff.
• In Page View, click between 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 right/CONTROL-clicking on an object. A contextual menu will be displayed where you can select various items.

Menu item	What it does
Resize Page	Display the Resize Page dialog box
Resize System	Display the Resize Staff System dialog box
Resize Staff	Display the Resize Staff dialog box

See also:

Main tool palette

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