Adobe PDF documents

The Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) was developed by the Adobe company to provide a universal file format that preserves the fonts, formatting and graphics of a source document, regardless of what platform or application was used to create it. PDF files can be shared, viewed and printed by anyone with a free Adobe Acrobat Reader. We’ve provided this basic primer on PDFs because many PrintMusic users want to create PDFs: to publish on the Web, to E-mail to a friend, to give to publishers for further formatting, or to give to a print shop for printing. In order to *create* PDFs, you will need to buy Adobe Acrobat. For more information about these products, please visit Adobe’s website at www.adobe.com.

To create a PDF document from a PrintMusic notation file

There’s more than one way to create a PDF, but this method will give you more control over the results. See your Adobe Acrobat manual for full details.

1. Open the file in PrintMusic.
2. Choose File > Export > PDF. If you would like to add PDF properties to the file (Subject, Title, Author, etc.), click Additional Properties, add the required info, then click OK.
3. Name the file, chose a destination, and click Save. PrintMusic creates a PDF of the currently visible document.

Alternatively, you can print to PDF using the Adobe Acrobat Distiller print driver or a different PDF printer with the following steps:

1. Open the file in PrintMusic.
2. Choose File > Print. The Print dialog box appears.
3. Click Setup. The Print Setup dialog box appears.
4. From the Printer Name drop-down menu, choose "Acrobat Distiller" or "Acrobat PDF" (or whatever Adobe PDF print driver is installed on your computer). Keep in mind, you’ll need to switch the printer back to your regular printer when you’re done creating PDFs.
5. Click OK. PrintMusic begins printing using the PDF printer. If Acrobat Distiller is running in the background (you’ll see it at the bottom of your screen in the taskbar), it will immediately launch the Acrobat Distiller. Once the Distiller has launched, it will display a Save PDF File As dialog box.
6. Give the file a name (you may wish to save it to the Desktop for convenience) and click Save.

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