Printing

The Staff view provides printing support of standard musical notation in nine staff sizes. The Staff view prints general project information from the File Info dialog box (see Labeling your projects) at the beginning of the score, including the song's title (or file name), subtitle (dedication), playing instructions, author/composer, and copyright. In addition, Music Creator identifies the tracks by number and name, and numbers each measure and each page.

Music Creator lets you select a size for your printed score. Engravers have nine standardized sizes of the five-line staff. The vertical distance between the lines of each staff is called its rastral size, or measurement. Each rastral size has a number and is used by publishers for a specific genre of musical composition.

 

Table 169.  

Number	Trade names	Genre usage
0	Commercial or Public	Wire-bound manuscript
1	Giant or English	Elementary band and orchestra books; instruction booklets
2 or 3	Regular, Common, or Ordinary	Sheet music for concertos and classics
4	Peter	Folios, works for organ, etc.
5	Large middle	Band/wind ensemble music; sheet music
6	Small middle	Chorals; condensed sheet music
7	Cadenza	Pocket editions; cues in piano parts; military marches
8	Pearl	Thematic advertisement; ossia

To print a score

1.	Make sure the Staff view is the current window.

2.	Choose File > Print Preview.

3.	If you want, click Zoom, or click in the music, to zoom the view in and out.

4.	Click the Configure button to select a rastral size.

5.	When zoomed out, you can press PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN to navigate between pages.

6.	Click Print.

Music Creator displays the Windows Print dialog box, from which you can set up your printer and print the score.

Alternatively, you can choose File > Print and skip the print preview window.

Can't print if Staff view is floating

It is not possible to print the Staff view if the Staff view is float-enabled. If necessary, temporarily disable floating if you need to print from the Staff view.