merge scores and add page numbers
I transcribe traditional Irish Tunes and I'm making a book, about 40 pages. I want to merge them all into one document and add page numbers. I was given the good advice to merge them as PDFs with PDFsam and that worked great, but I can't add page numbers without buying the advanced version, (or Acrobat) It would be great to have a way to merge the scores, like in the earlier version but more fully flushed out, that could easily apply page numbers. I hoped the copy center where I'm having a small run printed could add page numbers as part of that process, but they couldn't.
Thoughts?
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In each score in MuseScore you can set the start page number in Format->Page settings. No need to have the PDF program supply page numbers.
In reply to In each score in MuseScore… by mike320
That would work, but I have 40 distinct scores. There was a way in an older version to merge them into one score, but that's not in 3.0. Thats my understanding anyway. I can make a text box and put a number in it but that is super tedious and prone to error.
In reply to That would work, but I have… by matt shortridge
You can create an album in MuseScore 2(.3.2), save as a score and open that in MuseScore 3.
MuseScore 3 indeed doesn’t have that capability yet.
In reply to That would work, but I have… by matt shortridge
The album feature is not yet in version 3, it did exist in version 2, but had far too many problems. Version 3 is intended to have a better version of the album, but that is several months away.
To put the page number on a score, open Format->Style and select the header & footer. You can the use the $P (capital P) symbol to force a page number on every page. I realize it's late in the game to tell you to do this in a template, but perhaps you can set this in one score, save Style... then open another and Load Style and it will import the footer and header. I haven't tried it with a header or footer but it makes sense that this Style setting would be saved and loaded.