For anyone who's on a PC, I highly recommend the utility FinePrint for handling booklet printing, n-up printing, etc. It's extremely flexible and I guarantee it will reduce brain cramping when you print booklets. It saves time and eliminates guesswork whether or not you have a duplexer, though it's even more useful if you don't. You can define multiple virtual "printers" with all the printer settings you need for different situations (i.e., paper size, orientation, scaling, resolution, physical printer, etc.). I use a number of these for Finale; for example, I have different virtual printers to print full scores, reduced scores (booklet or non-booklet), parts (booklet or non-booklet), etc. TGTools and Fineprint are the two most important adjuncts to Finale for me. More info: http://www.fineprint.com/products/fineprint/index.html.
BTW, I also do all my browser printing to Fineprint; the preview lets you see exactly what will print, and you can remove pages or even graphics you don't want to print. You can also combine multiple print jobs into one, especially useful for n-up and/or duplex printing. Apologies for the extended ad, but this is one of the best utilities I"ve ever used. Lee Actor Composer-in-Residence and Assistant Conductor, Palo Alto Philharmonic Assistant Conductor, Nova Vista Symphony http://www.leeactor.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf > Of Noel Stoutenburg > Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 6:00 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Finale] Printing menu options for Choral - collate for > 11x17double sided > > > Ray Horton wrote: > > What I do in that case is turn it into 8 pages - add a title page > > before page 1 and a blank page after the last page. (Remove the page > > number from the back page if you want.) > > > > Then I print pages: > > 8,1 > > 6,3 > > then flip them and print > > 2,7 > > 4,5 > > and if I may supplement, you'll probably need to specify the paper size > in the print dialog, need to change the orientation of the page from > "portrait" to "landscape", and specify "two-up" printing, and perhaps > all pages. I would also say that while I print the pages the same way, I > print them in a slightly different order than Ray writes. > > Liek he does, I start with 8,1, but then I print the back side of that, > so I do 2, 7 next. Then I do 6,3, and like Ray does, I print 4,5 last. > Depending upon the number of copies I'm making, I may collate on the > fly, set out all the 8,1/2,7 pages individually, and when they are done, > all the 6,3/4,5 pages. > > ns > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
