Printing

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Printing
Under normal circumstances, Finale prints your pages in portrait orientationwith the page taller than it is wide.
For some scores, however, you may want the page turned sideways, in landscape orientation. While printing both
the score and parts, you may want to use the orientation specified in the Page Format for Score and Page Format
for Parts instead of the orientation specified in the Print dialog box. To do so, check Use Finales Page Orientation
Instead of the Printers Page Orientation in Preferences - Save and Print. When you lay out your score for legalsize (8.5 by 14-inch) paper, you must choose Legal from the Page Setup dialog box and make sure youve created a
Finale score with the appropriate dimensions. For more information on page size and format, see Page layout.

To print a score
1. Choose File > Page Setup. Your computer's Page Setup dialog appears. Click Letter or
Legal to specify the paper size. Specify the orientation by clicking Portrait or Landscape.
2. Make sure your page layout matches the paper size and orientation youve just specified
(unless Use Finales Page Orientation Instead of Printers Page Orientation is checked in
the Preferences - Save and Print dialog box, in which case the printers orientation is
ignored).
3. Click OK (or press RETURN). If youre in Page View, go to page 1.
4. Choose Utilities > Update Layout. By choosing Update Layout, youre reformatting the
music so that no measures are unnecessarily wide or narrow.
5. Choose File > Print. The Select Score and Parts for Printing dialog box appears where
you can select the parts and/or score you want to print. Check the desired items, specify
the number of copies and click OK. The Print dialog box appears letting you specify the
range of pages to print. If you only want the first page to print, type 1 in both the From and
To boxes.
6. Click OK (or press RETURN). The printer should begin to print in a few moments.
7. To cancel printing, press COMMAND+period (.). Because the computer sends data to the
printer faster than the printer can process it, there will be a momentary pause before the
computer and printer stop printing.

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To print linked parts

See Printing linked parts.

To print marching band parts (flip-folder size)

Follow these steps to print marching band parts formatted to print two pages per
8.5 x 11 sheet of paper, stacked vertically.
1. Start your marching band score using the "Marching Band" Document Style or "Marching
Band" template.
If you are working with a score that you did not start one of these two ways, set
the part page size to octavo:
1. Choose Document > Page Format > Parts.
2. Choose Page Size > Octavo (6.75 x 10.5), set the orientation to
Landscape, and click OK.
3. Choose the Page Layout tool
and choose Page Layout > Redefine
Pages > [the pages and parts you wish to change to octavo] and click OK.
2. Choose File > Print. Choose the parts you would like to print and the number of copies of
each by clicking on the number to the right of each part/score and click OK.
3. Click the third pop-up menu from the top (it reads Finale 2014 by default) and choose
Layout. Set Pages per sheet to 2 and then set the desired layout direction.
4. Click Print.

To print in booklet form using FinaleScript

1. Set your printer to landscape format. To do this, from the Start menu, choose Settings,
Control Panel, then open your Printer settings (the wording depends on the version of
Windows). Right-click the desired printer and choose Preferences. Your printer software
opens. Here, set the layout to landscape and click OK (exact procedure varies depending
on the printer).
2. In Finale, open the file you want to print, then choose Plug-ins >FinaleScript >
FinaleScript Palette. The FinaleScript Palette appears.
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3. Under Misc, double-click Print Booklet. The FinaleScript Editor appears.

4. Follow the instructions in this script to print your score. For example, if you do not have a
printer that is capable of printing on both sides, enter // before print booklet (so
FinaleScript will ignore it) and remove the // characters before print booklet recto
and print booklet verso.
5. Click Save and Close and then click the

button to print the booklet.

Tip: For a complete tutorial written for beginners

through advanced users, see Using FinaleScript.

To print in booklet form manually

1. Choose File > Printer Page Setup.
2. Choose Landscape as the page orientation.
3. Click OK.
4. Check how many pages you have. If the number of pages is not divisible by four (such as 3,
5, 6, 7, 9 etc.), add a blank page to the end of your document. This will allow for staggered
printouts (see Blank pages). If you have 4, 8, or 12 (etc.) pages of music, you do not need to
add a blank page at the beginning.
5. Choose File > Print.
6. Select 2-up printing.
7. If you want to run the paper through your printer once and then go to a print shop and
copy your 1 page originals to front and back, enter the following numbers (including
commas) in the Page Range field then click print.
Number of pages with music Page numbers to type (blank pages in bold)
3

4,1,2,3

4,1,2,3

6,5,4,1,2,3

6,7,7,5,4,1,2,3

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8,1,2,7,6,3,4,5

8,1,2,7,6,3,4,5

10,9,8,1,2,7,6,3,4,5

10

10,11,11,9,8,1,2,7,6,3,4,5

11

12,1,2,11,10,3,4,9,8,5,6,7

12

12,1,2,11,10,3,4,9,8,5,6,7

13

14,13,12,1,2,11,10,3,4,9,8,5,6,7

14

14,15,15,13,12,1,2,11,10,3,4,9,8,5,6,7

8. If you wish to run the paper through your printer twice to have music on both sides of the
paper, enter the first row of numbers in the Page Range in the Print Score dialog box.
Number of
pages with
music

Page numbers to type for first

side (blank pages in bold)

Page numbers to type for second

side (blank pages in bold)

4,1

2,3

4,1

2,3

6,5,4,1

2,3 (Do not place paper with page 5 in

printer second time)

6,7,4,1

7,5,2,3

8,1,6,3

7,2,4,5

8,1,6,3

2,7,4,5

10,9,8,1,6,3

2,7,4,5 (Do not place paper with page

9 in printer second time)

10

10,11,8,1,6,3

11,9,2,7,4,5

11

12,1,10,3,8,5

2,11,4,9,6,7

12

12,1,10,3,6,7

2,11,4,9,6,7

13

14,13,12,1,10,3,8,5

2,11,4,9,6,7 (Do not place paper with

page 13 in printer second time)

14

14,15,12,1,10,3,8,5

15,13,2,11,4,9,6,7

9. Click Print.

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10. Turn the paper over and place back in the Printer to be printed on.
11. Enter the second row of numbers in the Page Range in the Print Score dialog box.
12. Click Print.

To print large scores by taping smaller pages together

(tiling pages)
If you want to print a full-size score (11 by 17 inches, for example) and dont have a
printer capable of printing on 11 by 17 inch paper, you can use Finales tiling pages
feature. Finale can automatically tile the pagesin other words, print out several
standard-size pages with a portion of the full score page on each, so that you can
then tape them together (and, if you wish, photocopy the result onto large single
pages).
1. Set the page size of your score to the proper size using either Document > Page Format
for Score or the Page Layout tool

2. Choose Utilities > Update Layout.

3. Choose File > Page Setup. The Page Setup dialog box appears.
4. Choose Landscape for the orientation, Letter for the page size and click OK.
Be sure Use Finales Page Orientation Instead of the Printers Page Orientation is
deselected in the Preferences - Save and Print dialog box.
5. Choose File > Print. The Print dialog box appears.
6. Select Tile Pages and specify the page range on which youll be printing.
Some printer drivers will allow you to specify the size of the component pages
(Letter or Legal) here. Other printer drivers store this information in the Page
Setup dialog box.
7. Type the amount of overlap you want in the Tile Overlap text box.
The units are whatever you've selected under Finale 2014 > Measurement Units.
8. Click Print.

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To tile pages with Compile PostScript Listing

1. Set the page size of your score to the
proper size using either Document >
Page Format for Score or the Page
Layout tool

Noteman says: You must have a

perform these steps.

PostScript printer to

When entering the final, tapedtogether page dimensions, the key is to subtract one inch for each page that will be
side-by-side with another. If your score is to be 11 by 16 inches, for example, it will
be composed of two letter-size pages taped together. Therefore, set the page
height to 10 inches (not 11). For the width, enter 15 inches (remember, youre
subtracting one inch for each page that will be side-by-side). By subtracting one
inch from each dimension in this way, you provide for a half-inch margin of overlap
on each page, so that the resultant pages will be easier to tape together.
2. Choose Utilities > Update Layout.
3. Choose File > Compile PostScript Listing. The Compile PostScript Listing dialog box
appears.
4. Select Tile Pages and specify the page range and the size of the component pages (Letter
or Legal) on which youll be printing.
Select Center Music on Page to center the printed image of the full
score page on the taped-together physical page; if you dont specify this
option, the music will appear beginning in the upper-left corner of each
full-size page, requiring you to cut off the extra paper on the right and
bottom margins, if necessary.
Select Include All Fonts in Listing to embed the actual music fonts into
the PostScript file. The resulting file will be larger, but you wont have to
worry that your music fonts arent installed on the computer that will
ultimately be doing the printing.
5. Click Compile.
To print the resultant compiled file, youll need a downloading program such as the
LaserWriter Font Utility. For more information, see Encapsulated PostScript (EPS).
For best results, have a paper cutter on hand to trim the default quarter-inch
margins created by a PostScript printer on each page that youll be taping together.

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