Print PDF as page under page rather than side to side.
I am using a foot pedal page turner during performance. I am also using PDF files that I have exported from MuseScore. MuseScore places the pages side to side. This renders my foot pedal page turner inoperative.
Does MuseScore have the capability of placing the pages above each other? Or alternatively, is there something that I could do post process to place the pages in up and down order.
I look forward to hearing about this.
Jerry
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Edit -> Preferences -> Canvas -> Scroll pages -> choose Vertically?
I'm not sure I understood correctly, so feel free to ask again.
Regards
As far as I know, PDF doesn't have a concept of pages being side by side versus anything else - how pages are displayed is totally up to the program you use to display the PDF. What program are you using?
In reply to As far as I know, PDF doesn… by Marc Sabatella
I am using IBooks. The pages go horizintal in this.
In reply to I am using IBooks. The pages… by Jerry Radcliffe
In Adobe Reader it is possible to set this IIRC
However this nothing MuseScore can do anything about
In reply to I am using IBooks. The pages… by Jerry Radcliffe
Is there not some view menu where you can set choices.
For example, 'Single Page', 'Facing', 'Show Pages Continuously'.... ?
It looks like my problem is not with MuseScore but with the PDF reader. I will work on that for now. Sorry for the false issue I raised.
Jerry
In reply to It looks like my problem is… by Jerry Radcliffe
Well, this is not entirely true - the PDF format does allows a pdf creator to specify both the initial layout (single page, two pages, continuous view etc.) as well at the initial page mode (fullscreen, show outline etc.)
IIRC MuseScore uses QPrinter to generate the pdf file and that class unfortunately doesn't allow to set any of these parameters.
For your use case it might be easiest to change those layout/view mode settings with a small script. I personally use the PyPDF2 library (for Python) to do this.
In reply to Well, this is not entirely… by rmattes
While there are some settings that can be included as "serving suggestions", still, most PDF readers incldues ways of allowing the user to specify these things. I suspect the issue of horizontal versus vertical is a red herring though. iBooks displays all PDF's horizontally by default as far as I know. I suspect the issue is simply that iBooks don't support the specific page turning device being used, or it isn't connected properly (FWIW, see for example https://www.airturn.com/support/product-support/how-to/how-to-turn-page…). But in general, I'd recommend forScore over iBooks for music reading.