Printing

To print a score

Portrait orientation is the usual setup—the page is taller than it is wide; Landscape orientation is “sideways.” Letter size is 8.5 by 11 inches; Legal size is 8.5 by 14 inches. If you’re printing on a PostScript printer, make sure that the PostScript fonts are installed in you system. This is done automatically with the PrintMusic Easy Install. (See Fonts for tips on choosing fonts.)

1. Choose File > Page Setup. The Page Setup dialog box appears. Click Letter or Legal to specify the paper size. Specify the orientation by clicking Portrait or Landscape.
2. Make sure your page layout matches the paper size and orientation you’ve just specified. See Page size for instructions.
3. Click OK (or press RETURN). If you’re in Page View, go to page 1.
4. Choose Utilities > Update Layout. By choosing Update Layout, you’re reformatting the music so that no measures are unnecessarily wide or narrow. (This step is unnecessary if you have Automatic Update Layout checked in the PrintMusic 2014 > Preferences.)
5. Choose File > Print. The Print dialog box appears, letting you specify the number of copies and the range of pages to print. If you only want the first page to print, type 1 in both the From and To boxes.
6. Click OK (or press RETURN).
7. To cancel printing, press COMMAND+period (.). Because the computer sends data to the printer faster than the printer can process it, there will be a momentary pause before the computer and printer stop printing.

Under normal circumstances, PrintMusic prints your pages in portrait orientation—with the page taller than it is wide. For some scores, however, you may want the page to be in landscape orientation. While printing, you may also wish to use the orientation specified in the Page Setup dialog box instead of the orientation specified in the Print dialog box.

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