Saving the background colour on scores - please help!
Hello,
When I save my score to my computer, it saves with a white background but I need to keep the lovely coloured background and can't figure out what I'm going wrong! Please give your advice if you know what I'm doing wrong!! Thank you.
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I don't think you're doing anything wrong, except misunderstanding that background setting, it is for display on the PC inside MuseScore only.
In reply to I don't think you're doing by Jojo-Schmitz
We now understand that the background setting changes only the background color of the display. But I second the initial request: is it possible to change the background of the printed score, and how? Thanks for your attention and help.
In reply to We now understand that the by amdb49
I don't think it's possible. They are meant to simulate the look of textured paper, but I guess it's assumed that if you want that look when printing, you'd simply use textured paper :-)
It's probably possible to find some sort of PDF editor or special printer software that automatically inserts texture. Or even just print in two passes - print the fake texture from some graphics program, then re-use the paper when printing from MuseScore.
In reply to I don't think it's possible. by Marc Sabatella
Thanks a lot for your attention.
Actually, I am using a virtual printer (PDFCreator) or exporting to .pdf format in order to project the score on a screen. Some comments on this forum explained how to convert the result to .png and modify the colours, and that is a lengthy but workable solution.
It would be great if the next version of Musescore could include a simpler way to obtain this result :+)
Best regards.
In reply to I don't think you're doing by Jojo-Schmitz
So to clarify, even though the page background is not true white while in the program, when I generate a PDF, the page will be white? I ask because When I put images with white background on the page, the white in the image doesn't match the score background.
In reply to So to clarify, even though by mikec
Correct. Better to use transparent background in images probably, but it should be OK either way.