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So I've got a large ensemble score that I'm trying to make readable on 1117 size sheet. Somehow only half of the pages appear to large size, the rest are adamantly refusing to be anything besides 811. Any suggestions for how to fix this?
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I am considering moving from Finale v26 to Dorico v4.
A simple question - in Finale I can reduce the size of the music on a page by specifying a percentage so that all objects on a page are reduced by say 80%. This a quick way of increasing the number of systems displayed on a page. How do I do that in Dorico please?
In this introductory video to the Page Layout Tool, I explain some important concepts that will help understand the rest of the lessons in this series. Including the important distinction between a Staff and a System as Finale defines them, the different ways in which the music can be scaled on the page and the critical difference between the Page Layout Tool and the Page Format window from the Document menu.
Changing the page size or orientation in Finale (0:24) is relatively easy once you know how to do it. Page Margins (8:50) are a little more complicated but not terribly so. I will show you how to use the tiny, yet mighty Edit Page Margins window (11:31) and how you can change the margins directly by dragging the margin handles (23:16). Throughout all of this, I will discuss the interplay between these local adjustments using the Page Layout Tool and globally using the Page Format window.
You can then print the file in landscape. If you print to file with a pdf creator, you have a perfectly sized part. If you print 2 pages per sheet instead in portrait, then you can easily print on a regular piece of 8 1/2 by 11. But only one part can be printed per sheet.
NOTE: We are actually not changing the page boarders, in other words we are still ending up with the same page size. Instead, we reduce the size of each element on the page, including the staves, text, and everything else.
The difference is, that when you make changes in the PAGE FORMAT FOR SCORE dialog box, any future pages you create by adding more measures to your score will automatically have those settings. In contrast, using the RESIZE PAGE dialog from the layout menu will only apply to the pages you have already in the score. This can be useful when you want to change the layout of some pages but not all of them in your score.
Click on the first blank page in the series. You will see that there are two columns. All the pages of your document appear in the left-hand column, the Pages pane. The one you are currently working on also appears in the right-hand column, which is called the Workspace.
If the second PDF you want to add to the first is only one page, you can drag in into the blank page in the Workspace. You will probably have to adjust the position of these additions, as they tend to paste a little bit askew.
For your original question. (With the newer LO versions like 5.3 you should be able to import single PDF-pages into your document as vector image. But this is always only the first page od the PDF. So you would have to split your PDF into a lot 1-page-PDFs and then import each one by one.)
Long before this feature came to LO I had the same wish like you: To merge multiple music notation PDFs and LO-Documents. Possibly create a nice TOC of it all.
I ended up with this free project that it essentially a template and uses the free command-line program PDFtk which you have to download and install.
Overall, clarity in presentation will be of greatest benefit to those performing your work. In general, this means that there should be enough space for artists to discern all elements of the music they are required to play. There may be more blank space than you think you may want, however it is better to err on the side of too much blank space than to overcrowd the page. Before submitting a work, ensure that it is thoroughly proofread and edited so that there are no colliding elements on any given page.
The minimum margin space to afford clarity in print should be at least 1/2". Consider how the paper will bend in a saddle-stitch and how much room a coil will need to secure the binding. Moreover, when proofreading, ensure that each page has the same margins - for example, a cutaway score should expand space between staves or adjust the number of systems on a page with fewer instruments to match the same top and bottom margins as a page with more instruments.
To clarify a couple of points: a multi-movement piece must include BOTH the title of the complete work as well as the title of the first movement. Additionally, please use the copyright publishing credit that reflects your PRO affiliation. Optionally, it is also considered standard to list the year of composition alongside your name on the front page in the following format: "Your Name (20XX)".
Following the first page, ensure that your page numbers follow the convention of odd-numbered pages on the right and even-numbered pages on the left. Traditionally, scores start on page 1 - a right-hand page. In some cases, it is appropriate to format a score or a part to begin on the left-hand page, however these will still follow the same convention and start on page 2. As a reminder; when using separate Sibelius/Finale/Dorico files for separate movements of the same piece, remember to change the page numbers to reflect the continuation of the piece across movements.
Your title page itself should contain the title exactly as it should appear in a formal concert program, including particular capitalization, diacritical markings, and other semantic specifics. Please always use this exact title when listing the work in a program or on a recording. Optionally, this title page can include movement titles and page numbers (as in a table of contents), and the duration of the piece and/or movements within the piece.
First off, any discussion of preparing parts would be incomplete without taking page turns into consideration. Relating back to the discussion on clarity, it is always preferable to use some blank space on a page (or an entire blank page) to ensure a comfortable page turn than to crowd a page for a page turn's sake or neglect a page turn entirely.
It is sometimes a good idea to use a cover page on parts. Most often, this is necessary when a part is only 1 or 2 pages long so that the part can be printed into a booklet - leaflet parts will not be accepted. Other cases in which a cover page may be a good idea include when the best page turns are available on even-numbered pages of music. In such situations, of course, pages should be re-numbered so that the music starts on page 2 and page turns occur on odd-numbered pages.
I create a document in two-column-layout with LaTeX (and Koma-Script, if that is relevant). The two-column-layout is defined in documentclass. The last page of an chapter fills the left column first - the result is that both column are of different length. How can I balance that?
Neither the flushend nor balance environment works for me with or without lipsum; when I use them either nothing happens or the last page disappears. Since most of the papers I work with contain floats, multicols environment is unacceptable to me, because dealing with the balancing of columns is much easier than dealing with messed up floats. It takes only several minutes to balance the last page manually by using \addtolengthheight-x, where
Finally, if you need to balance columns on some other page, where multicolumn didn't work properly, you can do it by using \vboxtext you don't want to break on the shorter column or using \newpage and \hspace on the longer column.
At the moment, I would recommend the pbalance package. Merely using \usepackagepbalance will balance the final page. Its package description explains how it's an improvement over the balance package:
All solutions I know of for balancing pages are hacks. Even with pbalance, which at least tries not to break anything, it can be a hassle. I've had an instance where rebuilding my document after some changes made the final page unbalanced again, and I had to clean and rebuild to fixpoint to get it to balance.
The other answers have worked for me most of the time. But I ran into a combination of a two-column document using acmart and BibLaTeX where none of them did. I finally managed by adjusting the margin of the last column manually. That can be done with several approaches as well, but the one that finally did the trick was using enlargethispage of the fancyhdr package in combination with afterpage from the package with the same name. What I did was the following:
I very rarely have to use the navigator. Unless I am doing something very detailed, I keep the zoom on page width and use the wheel on my mouse to scroll down when I need to. For switching pages, I think it would be nice to be able to use the [page up] and [page down] keys to move the view one page left or right respectively, or even incrementally so that it could be used in closer views (for the visually impaired) where an entire page won't fit on the screen. I've found that entering notes with the keyboard makes things go much faster and greatly reduces the need to zoom in to where a whole line won't fit on the screen.
I find that I don't really need the navigator if I'm working on an A4 score - for orchestral pieces with ridiculous page sizes, a continuous view would be an absolute godsend. Before I started using MuseScore, I was using programs like NoteWorthy, NoteEdit and Sibelius, which have continuous view, and it was much easier to work on big scores.
This page contains tips and tricks for drummers using Finale to create drum and percussion parts. Most of these questions and answers were gathered on the Finale message boards. I want to thank all those who have answered questions and contribute to the Finale message boards.
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