Scaling factor option (not stave space or width/height)
I'm having trouble scaling the entire score.
Adjusting ‘Stave space’ only affects some elements, and leaves many other elements (bar numbers, title, etc) unchanged. Also, the default value for stave space is 1.75mm, whereas the underlying scaling factor for a document should logically be 1 (as in, the scaling is by default 1x the default scaling).
Adjusting the width/height of the score as a hack means that the exported PDF will be the wrong size.
Is there an underlying scaling factor option I'm missing or anything in the works to address this?
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"Adjusting ‘Stave space’ only affects some elements, and leaves many other elements (bar numbers, title, etc) unchanged"
I am not yet using MS4 for serious work, so this comment refers to MS3.
You need to look at the setting for various elements like Title and Bar Numbers in Format > Style... > Text Styles. You will notice an option "Follow stave size", which in some cases is disabled. Enable this checkbox to force the scaling to follow a change in Format > Page Settings... > Scaling > Stave space:
![Text Styles for Bar Numbers.jpg]( "Text Styles for Bar Numbers.jpg")
In reply to "Adjusting ‘Stave space’… by DanielR
This is useful, thanks! I can see why they did it like this, and it would be nice to have an underlying adjustable scaling factor that all elements would be affected by as a separate thing. But I can work with this.
To scale ( for example) bar numbers, select one of them. Right click/scroll down to Select/Similar. In Properties change the size of all bar numbers at once. You might need to add the Properties tab from View menu.
You wrote:
Is there an underlying scaling factor option I'm missing or anything in the works to address this?
When a score is displayed in 'Page view' at 100% (i.e., zoomed neither in nor out), a ruler placed upon the computer monitor should verify the page size exactly as reported in Format > Page settings. For example, a letter sized sheet of paper will measure as 8.5"x 11" on the computer display. MuseScore renders scores as WYSIWYG - what you see is what you get.
That is why 'Staff space' is a bona fide measurement (and not a scaling factor of some logical construct) - e.g., a ruler placed upon the computer monitor will indicate the distance between 2 adjacent lines of a staff as equal to the distance entered in 'Staff space (sp)''.
That is the reason why many people with orchestral scores (many instruments, with a single system per page) often notice some instruments get truncated at the bottom of their scores when viewed in 'Page view'. It is because, given the size of the paper and the 'Staff space', all the instruments cannot fit on the chosen paper. So, either the paper (width/height) must be made larger to accommodate the truncated instruments, or the "Staff space" must be made smaller in order to shrink the scaling of the entire score (the notation itself) to fit onto the page. Or a combination of both.
Can you explain more about your use case? It would normally be inappropriate for titles to be small just because the staff is. Same with the other elements that deliberately don't scale.
But if you do some unusual special case in mind where everything does truly need to scale, probably easiest to to export to PDF and use the scaling features of your PDF viewer and/or printer driver to handle the rest.