PDF / Page View: Staves Missing / Blued Out

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Billy May
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Post by Billy May » Sat Jun 02, 2018 12:44 pm

Finale 2012. Windows 8.

The forum helped me with this a few years ago but I've completely forgotten the solution and I can not find that thread. When I export the score to PDF, the bottom several staves of the score are missing. In Page View those staves are tinted in blue.

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Michel R E
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Post by Michel R E » Sat Jun 02, 2018 1:38 pm

this is because you have the wrong paper size assigned to the file.

if you have too many staves on a page, they will not print, since they are outside the printing area of whatever size paper you've assigned.
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Billy May
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Post by Billy May » Sat Jun 02, 2018 9:49 pm

Thank you. I have forgotten how to remedy that. Last time this happened, there was a way to choose 8 1/2 x 11 and still get the whole score on paper.

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Post by Billy May » Sat Jun 02, 2018 10:04 pm

OK, I used the resize system tool. All's good. Thank you for steering me in the right direction.

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