The paper sizes available under Layout>Page Settings include everything from A4 and Letter all the way up to Folio and Tabloid, so the limitation is really not what MuseScore can handle, but what your printer can handle. Very few desktop printers can handle paper larger than 11x17 (known as 'Ledger'). If you want to use the older professional publishing standard page of 9x12, you will need to invest about $8000 in a commercial laser printer which can handle 12x18 sheets.
It is an unfortunate fact that the hardware available in any given era tends to define the print product produced. POD micro-publishers are generally limited to 8.5x11 page size because the largest sheet most inexpensive printers can handle is 11x17. As a result, in today's publishing world there are only a few, very high-end publishers which still print music on 9x12 pages, and not all of them print all their editions on that size, either. Barenreiter, for example, uses 8.5x11 for its lower-priced line of reprint editions; their top-drawer Urtext stuff is all printed on 9x12...but you pay for it (of course!).
As a work-around, you can set MuseScore to produce a PDF for 9x12 pages, and save the file to a thumb drive. Take that to your local copy shop and they should be able to print it for you in booklet form.
Thank you for the info. I cannot find 11x17 on the drop down menu, is there a code that's equivalent (one of those B4, B5, Architect, whatever...I have no idea how to figure out which is the 11x17.
Thanks!
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I'm not sure precisely what those dimensions are, but you can, via Layout > Page Settings.
The paper sizes available under Layout>Page Settings include everything from A4 and Letter all the way up to Folio and Tabloid, so the limitation is really not what MuseScore can handle, but what your printer can handle. Very few desktop printers can handle paper larger than 11x17 (known as 'Ledger'). If you want to use the older professional publishing standard page of 9x12, you will need to invest about $8000 in a commercial laser printer which can handle 12x18 sheets.
It is an unfortunate fact that the hardware available in any given era tends to define the print product produced. POD micro-publishers are generally limited to 8.5x11 page size because the largest sheet most inexpensive printers can handle is 11x17. As a result, in today's publishing world there are only a few, very high-end publishers which still print music on 9x12 pages, and not all of them print all their editions on that size, either. Barenreiter, for example, uses 8.5x11 for its lower-priced line of reprint editions; their top-drawer Urtext stuff is all printed on 9x12...but you pay for it (of course!).
As a work-around, you can set MuseScore to produce a PDF for 9x12 pages, and save the file to a thumb drive. Take that to your local copy shop and they should be able to print it for you in booklet form.
In reply to The paper sizes available by Recorder485
I believe the flip folder in question is a very small one, clipped to an instrument in a marching band.
In reply to I believe the flip folder in by Isaac Weiss
Ah; I hadn't thought of that. (I haven't played in a marching band since 1962 or 63!)
There is a CUSTOM paper-size choice in the drop-down of that dialogue; if he's looking for something that small, he should be able to define it there.
In reply to Ah; I hadn't thought of that. by Recorder485
This was good information. Thanks.
In reply to The paper sizes available by Recorder485
Thank you for the info. I cannot find 11x17 on the drop down menu, is there a code that's equivalent (one of those B4, B5, Architect, whatever...I have no idea how to figure out which is the 11x17.
Thanks!
In reply to Thank you for the info. I… by oglissant
Tabloid or Ledger
In reply to Tabloid or Ledger by Jojo-Schmitz
I've been quietly sad for a while that #109951: Include dimensions in names of page sizes in Page Settings got unfixed.
In reply to I've been quietly sad for a… by Isaac Weiss
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