Comments on: Music Prep Tutorial: How to keep your PDF scores and parts from printing with wide margins (the dreaded PDF “shrinkage!”) https://hincheymusic.com/music-prep-tutorial-how-to-keep-your-pdf-scores-and-parts-from-printing-with-wide-margins-the-dreaded-pdf-shrinkage/ Nashville Music Producer, Composer and Arranger Sun, 30 Apr 2017 14:51:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Mark Isaacs https://hincheymusic.com/music-prep-tutorial-how-to-keep-your-pdf-scores-and-parts-from-printing-with-wide-margins-the-dreaded-pdf-shrinkage/#comment-124 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:13:35 +0000 http://johnhinchey.com/?p=1074#comment-124 Thanks John, I might have to try that empirical approach of experimenting with different PDF drivers.

Since Sibelius 7 is providing native PDF support within the program that might work too. I haven’t upgraded from 6 yet so can’t experiment with that.

]]> By: John Hinchey https://hincheymusic.com/music-prep-tutorial-how-to-keep-your-pdf-scores-and-parts-from-printing-with-wide-margins-the-dreaded-pdf-shrinkage/#comment-123 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:18:35 +0000 http://johnhinchey.com/?p=1074#comment-123 In reply to Mark Isaacs.

Hi Mark, Thanks for reading my blog! I read the thread you linked to. Not sure how to deal with that. I’ve never used a PC, so I only have experience with the Mac. When I do what you describe using default Mac PDF printer it works
as you describe on your physical printer. It may indeed be your print driver but that’s only a guess on my part. Perhaps send the score to a friend on a PC with a different PDF print driver.
Best,
John

]]> By: Mark Isaacs https://hincheymusic.com/music-prep-tutorial-how-to-keep-your-pdf-scores-and-parts-from-printing-with-wide-margins-the-dreaded-pdf-shrinkage/#comment-122 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:29:41 +0000 http://johnhinchey.com/?p=1074#comment-122 Hi John, great article and I subscribe to your blog. Really appreciate it.

I having a related PDF problem which I have documented in detail on the Sibelius forum at http://www.sibelius.com/cgi-bin/helpcenter/chat/chat.pl?com=thread&start=566059&groupid=3&

I refer to this blog post as having shed some light on my issue, but am still without a full solution. Perhaps you could have a look over at the Sibelius forum?

]]> By: John Hinchey https://hincheymusic.com/music-prep-tutorial-how-to-keep-your-pdf-scores-and-parts-from-printing-with-wide-margins-the-dreaded-pdf-shrinkage/#comment-121 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:20:15 +0000 http://johnhinchey.com/?p=1074#comment-121 In reply to Ed Hirschman.

Hi Ed, thanks for the comment. I will check your plugin out, sounds really useful, thanks for the heads up!
Best,
John

]]> By: John Hinchey https://hincheymusic.com/music-prep-tutorial-how-to-keep-your-pdf-scores-and-parts-from-printing-with-wide-margins-the-dreaded-pdf-shrinkage/#comment-120 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:18:49 +0000 http://johnhinchey.com/?p=1074#comment-120 In reply to Alexa Weber Morales.

Hi Alex, thanks for the comment. Under File>Page Setup make sure you have the scale set to 100%. Also in your print window>Sibelius>Format
see if “Fit To Paper” is checked. If it is uncheck it.
Best,
John

]]> By: Alexa Weber Morales https://hincheymusic.com/music-prep-tutorial-how-to-keep-your-pdf-scores-and-parts-from-printing-with-wide-margins-the-dreaded-pdf-shrinkage/#comment-119 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:18:57 +0000 http://johnhinchey.com/?p=1074#comment-119 Yes! I have suffered through this. Thanks for the info, though I notice that Sibelius will shrink the charts when I SAVE them as PDFs. What’s that about?

]]> By: Ed Hirschman https://hincheymusic.com/music-prep-tutorial-how-to-keep-your-pdf-scores-and-parts-from-printing-with-wide-margins-the-dreaded-pdf-shrinkage/#comment-118 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:51:08 +0000 http://johnhinchey.com/?p=1074#comment-118 Nice post! FYI – I’ve written a Sibelius plug-in that adds the chart number at the top of each page that offers a variety of font, size, color and border options. You can find it here http://www.sibelius.com/download/plugins/index.html?plugin=310

Regards,

Ed

]]> By: John Hinchey https://hincheymusic.com/music-prep-tutorial-how-to-keep-your-pdf-scores-and-parts-from-printing-with-wide-margins-the-dreaded-pdf-shrinkage/#comment-117 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:09:25 +0000 http://johnhinchey.com/?p=1074#comment-117 In reply to Jimmy Lockett.

Hi Jimmy, Great to hear from you and thanks so much for reading my blog! I created a new text style and based it on a header.
You can then set it to show only on page one add the border etc all in House Style>Edit Text Styles. I called
the text style “Library Numbers” and it’s included with all my manuscript papers now, it’s very handy at helping clients keep their
books in order.
Best,
John

]]> By: Jimmy Lockett https://hincheymusic.com/music-prep-tutorial-how-to-keep-your-pdf-scores-and-parts-from-printing-with-wide-margins-the-dreaded-pdf-shrinkage/#comment-116 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:32:15 +0000 http://johnhinchey.com/?p=1074#comment-116 Hello John,

Am a subscriber to your feed and enjoy the tips. Question: Do you use boxed text for the song number in the upper right corner of this chart or a header or with a border or something else. Thank you.

Be Well,

jimmy

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