Bob Florence wrote:
Hi All:
I like to set pages up as a book. If I can have only one page open,
that's perfect especially if you are on a very crowded bandstand or in a
very crowded orchestra pit. After that I like two pages open. In this
case I do a cover page and print the first page of music on it's other
side. for me that insures the player that there are two pages open.
The problem occurs when sending parts (either Finale files or pdfs) to
to another location usually a school. They don't even notice the cover
page and often players will be scuffling with page turns. How do I make
this clear to anyone who is taping parts together? Laying parts for page
turns is a game and I am very strict about it.
Thanks for any help.
Erica and Aaron have given you good answers, but I'm afraid there's
nothing you can do to overcome ignorance and laziness on the part of
those who you send your music to for them to print and collate.
Erica's suggestion of adding a note in the package is a good one,
Aaron's suggestion of being sure the page numbers are printed in the
proper location is another, but if someone isn't going to bother to
notice if they've just taped pages together and made a bad page turn,
chances are they're not going to realize that the page numbers go to the
outside of the booklet, or to remember that odd pages go on the right
and even pages on the left or be bothered to read a note imploring them
to be careful of pagination when taping the printout into booklets.
Some people just never mastered that cut-and-tape section of
kindergarten. ;-)
This is one aspect of on-line publication which I can't see any way of
solving. But then I've seen some horrible page turns in printed music
from reputable publishers (some of these publications looked like they
were done by first-time Finale users who had never learned about
percentage reduction so it all looked like big-note editions and took up
5 pages when 3 would have done in the hands of an experienced engraver),
so it's nothing new. At least the tape can be cut apart and the parts
can be retaped by anyone who really cares about their page turns.
--
David H. Bailey
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