Cannot prevent PDF Export from reformatting
While editing a score set for voice plus piano, I disabled display of the piano part, then edited the system and page breaks to get 4 bars per line for most lines, to fit the whole voice score cleanly into 2 pages.
But when I exported to PDF, MuseScore completely ignored my formatting and took liberties. The PDF render has arbitrary numbers of bars per line, and spills over to 3 pages.
Is there any way in Musescore 4 to force PDF export to produce exactly what is showing on the screen?
My display is in page mode.
I'm attaching a screenshot of the on-screen score in Musescore, plus the rendered PDF.
What I want is the ability to render what's showing on the screen, to PDF, in exactly the same way it's rendering on screen.
Cheers
David
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| musescore-display.jpg | 121.96 KB |
| Bridge_Over_Troubled_Water_key_of_c-Voice.pdf | 74.67 KB |
Comments
I assume you are showing us the score, but the PDF was created from the voice. The instrument name "Voice" makes me think so.
Normally you have to format the part yourself and then export it. The formatting of the parts are independent of the formatting of the score.
In reply to I assume you are showing us… by HildeK
great minds think alike ;-)
I don't see voice and piano in the jpg, just one staff.
The PDF however clearly is an excerpt or part (of the voice part of the score), but the screenshoot doesn't show parts, so likely you never generated, opened and formatted them, but relied on the defaults
This apparently isn't sufficient for it to fit 2 pages
In reply to I don't see voice and piano… by Jojo-Schmitz
My question is - if I am viewing and editing the score in 'page' mode, does MuseScore offer any means of exporting it to PDF in exactly the form in which it is appearing on screen?
With the score in question, I even did Edit->"Select Section", then copy, then created a whole new score project, then pasted the copied section. This gave me an entirely new score file containing only one part.
That single part displays in a 2 page format exactly as I have set the system breaks. But yet again, when I try to export that to PDF, MuseScore again "Takes liberties" and completely messes up my formatting.
I'm now attaching the single-voice score I created.
In reply to My question is - if I am… by davidmcnabnz
MuseScore is WYSIWIG, so what you seen in screen is in the printout.
You didn't even leave look at the part, just at the main score, but printed the part.
In reply to MuseScore is WYSIWIG, so… by Jojo-Schmitz
In the newly created project with just the voice part, I tried both export options -- the single part, and the 'main score'.
With both of these PDF export options, Musescore is still reformatting and ignoring my system break indications.
In reply to In the newly created project… by davidmcnabnz
I can guarantee you that both look the same on MuseScore and on PDF. Printout might differ, due to a mismatch in paper format
In reply to My question is - if I am… by davidmcnabnz
I cannot use MuS4, but in the appendix you will find the results with MuS 3.7 on a Windows PC. I cannot believe that MuS 4 behaves differently - which Jojo-Schmitz has also confirmed. If this is not the case for you - I have no idea what the cause is.
Of course, the PDF of the part export is different because it uses multi-measure rests by default. This has already been said: You can format the part page independently. I often use this to customize the printout to my liking.
"ScreenShot MuseScore 3 Evolution - Score.png" shows how it looks in the score window.
"ScreenShot- ExportScore_Foxit Reader.png" is the view of the PDF export of the score.
"ScreenShot MuseScore 3 Evolution_ Export_Part-Classical Guitar_.png" is the PDF export of the part.
"ScreenShot- PDF_Printout - Foxit Reader.png" was created via File -> Print -> PDF Printer.
> With the score in question, I even did Edit->"Select Section", then copy, then created a whole new score project, then pasted the copied section. This gave me an entirely new score file containing only one part.
It doesn't have to be. Copying and pasting could also have copied the problems. Better test this on a completely rewritten section.
Finally, you could also reset MuseScore to factory settings if you have inadvertently changed an option.
In reply to My question is - if I am… by davidmcnabnz
That's not the score from those screenshots and PDFs.
Esp. it doesn't have any (manually set) system breaks, nor does the main score fit 2 pages.
The Classical Guitar part though does fit 2 pages (but also doesn't have any system breaks).