Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Jul 6, 2005, at 1:02 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
It seems to me self-evident that linked parts are the way Finale
should have been designed from the beginning. ...The data
file is a database, and there are various report views for showing
that data and subsets of that data....
Then the only question is whether or not the different views are
completely independent of each other in terms of the "view"
characteristics (i.e., layout) or if subviews (individual parts)
inherit characteristics from the global view (score).
I agree--with this caveat: The Page Setup parameters must be
independently configurable/savable for the score and for each individual
part. Anything less is a deal-breaker as far as I'm concerned. As of
now, I know of no program that allows more than one Page Setup
configuration (at a time) per file, and I have therefore assumed that
this restriction is unavoidable. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Andrew, I posed your question on the Sibelius list, concerning
independent page setup parameters for each part, and here is the answer
from the resident Sibelius employee, confirming that you can indeed have
independent page setups for each part:
The first bit is my question -- the part beginning with "yes indeed" is
his response:
[quote]
> Someone on the Finale list asked if we can use different page setup
> definitions for one or more parts, separate from the page setup
> definitions (I think he was asking basically about changing paper size
> for the parts, differently from the score, and possibly even asking if
> each part could have its own page definition, so, for whatever reason,
> someone might print a violin part on 8.5x11 (sorry, I'm American and I
> can never keep those A sizes straight) in portrait mode but print
> percussion parts on 8.5x14 (legal) in landscape mode.
>
> Is this possible?
Yes, indeed. The Multiple Part Appearance dialog allows you to change
the page and staff size for one or more parts; if you want finer
control, you can go to the Layout > Document Setup dialog when viewing a
dynamic part and change things like margins etc. there (which can then
be propagated to other parts via house styles). Each part can naturally
have a completely different page size if necessary.
Furthermore, on Mac, where it is necessary for each part to have its own
printer-specific Page Setup data, you can click the 'Page Setup' button
in the Multiple Part Appearance dialog and set the printer-specific
properties for one or more parts, and of course this can also be set
individually for each part via the File > Page Setup dialog if you wish.
(Nothing of this sort is required on Windows, where you set the paper
size to be used for the print job via the Properties button in the File
> Print dialog, or Sibelius simply uses the Windows default paper size).
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David H. Bailey
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