View menu
How to get there
The View menu is one of PrintMusic’s unchanging menus.
What it does
This menu contains commands pertaining to your view of the score. You can never change the score itself with the commands in this menu—only modify the way you see it on the screen.
- Scroll View • Page View. PrintMusic offers you the choice of two views of your music: Scroll View, where the music is a continuous horizontal band, and Page View, where the music is laid out like a page of sheet music. Most of PrintMusic’s tools work equally well in either mode, although you’ll find that your computer redraws the screen faster in Scroll View than in Page View. Use these commands to switch from one view to another.
- Zoom: Zoom In • Zoom Out • Fit Width • Fit in Window • Zoom to 100% • Zoom to 200% • Zoom to 75% • Other • Last Size. With these commands, you can specify the size at which you want the score displayed on your screen, expressed as a percentage of its actual size. You can’t change the actual (printed) size of the notes on the page in this way; this technique simply lets you magnify or reduce the screen display of the fixed-size notes.
- To change your view of the score, just choose the appropriate command from the submenu. (You can also use one of the CTRL-key equivalents: press CTRL-+ (plus) to zoom in and CTRL-- (minus) to zoom out. If you choose Other, the Zoom dialog box appears, in which you can specify any reduction or enlargement you want—from 10% to 1000%.
- If you’ve been viewing your score at several different degrees of magnification, Last Size takes you back to your last magnification setting.
- There’s one other command in the submenu: Fit in Window. This command is available only in Page View; it automatically reduces the viewing percentage just enough to fit the current page completely on your screen, no matter what size screen you have.
- Select Layer. The Select Layers submenu in the View menu allows you to use a menu to choose the layer you want to edit. Choose Select Layers from the View menu, then select an option from the submenu.
- Redraw Screen. Choose this command to force PrintMusic to redraw the screen. Whenever you spot a visual anomaly—a phantom fragment of a slur, for example, or a missing barline—this command usually clears up the problem.
- Out-of-Range Notes. Use this submenu to specify the experience level for all instruments in the score in order to properly indicate out-of-range notes (beginner for the smallest range, advanced for the largest) or to turn the feature off. This is a program setting applicable to all documents until the setting is changed again. Out-of-range notes are colored orange, and by default range checking is turned on and set to Intermediate; see Ranges for more information.
- Show All Warnings. Select this option to re-enable all messages that have a "Don’t Show This Again" checkbox.
- Show (Hide) Rulers. Choose this command to display nonprinting rulers at the top and left side of the screen. As you drag an object, you can see thin dotted indicator lines that show you where the cursor is, making it easy for you to align and position various objects precisely on the screen. The units of measurement are whatever you’ve selected using Edit > Measurement Units.
- Show (Hide) Page Layout Icons. When this item is selected, PrintMusic displays non-printing icons for systems which have been locked or systems where Allow Individual Staff Spacing has been turned on with the Page Layout tool
. The systems are locked when you use the Fit Measures command and when you move measures using the arrow keys. See Selection tool, Fit Measures dialog box and Page Layout menu.
- Show (Hide) Display Colors. This command toggles your display between using colors and black and white for different elements in the score. To print in color Show Display Colors must be selected (the menu will say Hide Display Colors). See the Print Dialog Box.
