Trying to fit on 3 pages
Moderators: Peter Thomsen, miker
I'm using v. 26.1 I'm trying to fit a score on 3 pages - it can't be more than 3 (I'm producing copies of it and all four pages including title page have to fit on an 11x17 sheet. Is there any way to reduce the size of everything so it fits? I've gone to great lengths reducing sizes of the measures and it's worked - but the last line of the whole piece is spilling onto a fourth page which I don't want. This would not have been so difficult, but half of the piece is a difficult cadenza with tons of runs and accidentals and I've literally reduced the sizes of the measures to the point where they are now borderline illegible as it is. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Peter Thomsen
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If I understand you correctly - the sizes of the measures - you have used the Measure Tool to reduce the measure widths, right?
There are other ways:
- How many systems are there in the score?
- How many staves are there in a system?
Perhaps you can make room for more systems on a page,
1) by reducing the system margins,
and
2) by moving the staves in a system closer to each other.
If 1) and 2) will get you closer, but still not there, consider using the Resize Tool.
Context-click on the page.
In the context menu, choose Resize Page…
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John Ruggero
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It's close to impossible to try to help unless we see it or at least part of it to get some idea of what you are trying to do.
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Yeah how do you move the staves closer together?
Peter Thomsen wrote: ↑Wed Nov 24, 2021 10:12 amIf I understand you correctly - the sizes of the measures - you have used the Measure Tool to reduce the measure widths, right?
There are other ways:
- How many systems are there in the score?
- How many staves are there in a system?
Perhaps you can make room for more systems on a page,
1) by reducing the system margins,
and
2) by moving the staves in a system closer to each other.
If 1) and 2) will get you closer, but still not there, consider using the Resize Tool.
Context-click on the page.
In the context menu, choose Resize Page…
