what music font does musescore use and how do I change it?
searched the help and don't see an easy answer. Also, is the default music font public domain so that I am able to embed it into exported PDF documents that I may sell?
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The musical fonts that come with MuseScore are under a SIL Open Font License, so yes, you can sell the PDFs having those embedded.
You change the fonts under Format > Style > Score
MuseScore uses Bravura, Emmentaler, Gonville and MuseJazz currently, Petaluma in the works (see https://musescore.org/en/node/295588 and https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/5381)
In reply to The musical fonts that come… by Jojo-Schmitz
i don't see any of those fonts installed when I look at the windows font manager
In reply to i don't see any of those… by Jack A. Zucker
Indeed, they are build into MuseScore. And embedded into a PDF export
In reply to Indeed, they are build into… by Jojo-Schmitz
ah, thanks. The reason I'm inquiring is that if I embed PDFs generated by finale into indesign, I cannot export the document to word. When I do, the fonts get converted to ariel. Not sure if there is some attribute on the maestro font that won't allow it to be embedded during export but i'm ditching all adobe products and trying to get my indesign stuff into another format and would like to avoid this issue in the future.
In reply to ah, thanks. The reason I'm… by Jack A. Zucker
I guess with "ariel" you mean "Arial", and that is a text font, not a musical font.
In reply to I guess with "ariel" you… by Jojo-Schmitz
yes, arial and yes, that's the point. Acrobat pro is exporting the Maestro font as Arial so it does not render properly
In reply to yes, arial and yes, that's… by Jack A. Zucker
I've never experienced any issue with PDF's from MuseScore, and everything should be completely embeddable. But if you do encounter a problem, let us know, with sample score and steps to reproduce the issue!
I regularly export PDF's from MuseScore, and I do sometimes process these further in Acrobat or other software - eg, combining PDF's for individual handouts into a single file, adding a header with running page numbers, adding bookmarks, etc. Then exporting this to another PDF, importing that to the Kindle ebook creator. That's a lot of processing, and it all seems to go smoothly.
In reply to I've never experienced any… by Marc Sabatella
i did some tests and indeed, there seems to be no issue but moral of the story, don't use adobe products unless you want to be stuck with them forever.