However, what if you want to print out a score, or rather than taping together multiple letter-sized pages, print two pages on a landscape 11 x 17? How do you do that? card stock paper weight for printing out parts. SnagIt then spools it and brings it up as a graphic.įor 8.5 x 11 and legal, you can use a home or office laser, just make sure it can handle 60-lb. Your size options are A4, letter, legal and executive. If you look at the earlier screenshot, you’ll see SnagIt 8 listed as an option. Since I use SnagIt from TechSmith as our prime screen capture program for publishing work on the PC, I decided to test SnagIt as a printer, too. What if someone wanted to have the full graphic export feature with Notion and Finale as you do with Sibelius? How do you do that? I tested CutePDF on both Sibelius 5 and Notion, and got more than acceptable results.īut as a publisher, I wanted to go the next step. Then in Notion, select it in the Printer page along with whether you want portrait or landscape:
CANNOT PRINT TO SNAGIT 8 INSTALL
Since CutePDF is a free download, just install it following the instructions. Two are CutePDF and SnagIt from TechSmith.ĬutePDF is a free program recommended by the folks at Notion Music. So you need an outside program to work with.
CANNOT PRINT TO SNAGIT 8 PDF
On the PC – Unlike the Mac, Windows XP does not have PDF making capabilities. For Print Spooling from other programs on the Mac to graphics output see Spool Pilot from Two Pilots Software. Note – For more on Macs and PDFs see this article by Two Pilots Software. Notion has no graphic output, while Sibelius has 20 choices that are primarily for Adobe, Microsoft, and OpenSource (StarOffice) programs. On Finale, you export as a TIFF or EPS file on either Mac or PC. Preview can then convert and export to BMP, JP2, JPEG, PDF, PICT, PNG, SGI, TGA, and TIFF. Preview can open 25 different file formats and automatically create a PDF. On the Mac – you have built-in PDF creation using Preview.
Neither Finale, Notion nor Sibelius have PDF output, nor do any sequencing/digital audio programs with notation capability. I posed these questions to Notion Music’s Brian Meisner who put me on to the road of discovery. card stock? Or how about exporting a file as a graphic to be inserted into a document or massaged graphically in Photoshop or InDesign? But what if you want to do more? What if you want the score printed on 11×17 paper? Or parts printed on 11×17 landscape, and on buff 60-lb. It’s one thing to do a score on screen, and even print it out on your local printer.