PDFs

Sibelius, Finale & PDFs: How to view your PDF parts in score order and using “Name Those Files” to keep them that way

Have you ever had a problem, then you find the solution and the next thing the sound you utter resembles ...

Music Prep Tutorial: How to keep your PDF scores and parts from printing with wide margins (the dreaded PDF “shrinkage!”)

The great majority of charts I deliver to clients are now attached to an email and sent as PDFs. No ...

Nashville Sibelius User’s Group Meeting July 12, 2010

Thanks to Doug Roberts and Dave McKay of Roberts Creative Systems for inviting me to speak at the Nashville Sibelius User ...

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About John Hinchey

John Hinchey helps his clients' projects sound beautiful with the notes he puts on paper.

John Hinchey is a producer, arranger/composer and speaker. He helps musical artists (such as Martina McBride), production companies (for cruise lines and theme parks), and independent singer/songwriters with musical arrangements, composition, music prep and trombone. In addition to arranging for Sting's Rainforest Benefit Concerts, he has also produced, arranged and/or composed music for the 2004 Democratic Convention, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, the critically acclaimed CD "Rewiring Genesis: A Tribute To 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" and more.