Jim, Finale has a "Page Size dialog box" which calls for width and length, portrait or landscape, of any sized sheets which might fit into your printer, even unusual custom cut sizes, such as, for example, 170 millimeters by 230 millimeters.
Scores can be expanded or contracted to fit into pages of these custom cut sheets, as fine print or large print. I have not yet cut paper to test this feature. Gene. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:12:24 -0500 >From: "James R. Frysinger" <[email protected]> >Subject: [USMA:50006] Sibelius 6 graphics >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > >I use Sibelius 6 to notate and publish music (as a printable score with >lyrics and also as a sound file). > >I've just noticed that if I "export graphics" as a Microsoft TIFF file, >the default dot density is 254 dots per inch. What an incredible >coincidence! That's exactly 10 dots per millimeter! > >If I export as a Sun StarOffice TIFF the default is 300 dots per inch. >Curious! > >By the way, I have Sibelius set up on my computer to work in metric >units for layout, etc. So far, this "dots per inch" bit is the only >non-metric indication I have seen on it. I happen to know that Sibelius >is quite popular in Europe so I wonder if Europeans have to wrestle with >"dots per inch" in all their computer graphics programs. > >One other oddity occurs in Sibelius with metric settings. If I move >objects, their distances from the appropriate reference point is given >in millimeters, but in increments of 1/8 of a millimeter! > >If anyone here uses Finale's Allegro instead of Sibelius please let us >know if it, too, can be set up in metric units. And, if so, does it >retain that "legacy" bit of "dots per inch". > >Jim > >-- >James R. Frysinger >632 Stony Point Mountain Road >Doyle, TN 38559-3030 > >(C) 931.212.0267 >(H) 931.657.3107 >(F) 931.657.3108 >
