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Pushing the PDF envelope
Hi, guys:
What I'm trying to do admittedly pushes the envelope for PDF export further than you may have envisioned. I am assembling the orchestrated score for a show. In order to have a legible conductor's score, I have had to go big: 11X17 (tabloid) pages. A bit cumbersome for the conductor, but a lot of show scores come in that size. I love the quality of the PDF export included in the new Composer 3.0.2. I found a work-around for the lack of export options with Composer's PDF print driver by exporting the Vocal and Piano/Vocal scores, one file at a time, then re-assembling them by printing each file to the freeware PrimoPDF driver and using the "Append" option to build the scores into complete books. This was with 8.5 X 11 (letter) size pages. Now, with the Conductor's score, I've got a problem. Exporting the large pages to PDF from Composer's Export options, I am only getting one or two pages exported at a time. Usually. Every once in a while, the complete piece exports, but I cannot find any rhyme or reason for it. After Exporting and getting one or two pages only, I can then advance the Page View to the next un-exported page and get another file with the same number of exported pages. And so on through the complete piece. I could then assemble each of those files into a complete piece and then assemble the whole score, but that's a huge pain and I'm sitting on the place where the pain is. The problem is obviously related to the large page size, but I can't think how. The output that I do get is very high quality, much better than printing straight to PrimoPDF or Bullzip, so I want to use the Export if I can. Attached are a .not file of a piece that is only exporting a page at a time (No 3 Sunny Day.not) and an example of the truncated PDF export (No 3 Sunny Day.pdf). Note that, to see the Page View displayed properly in the .not file, you have to set your printer's page (in Print Setup) to Tabloid or 11 X 17 size. Otherwise, it's all garbled. David |
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