Printing letter size pages side by side on 11x17 paper
Hi, new user here. Using MS 2.01 on Win7. I am currently arranging/transcribing horn section parts for a start-up oldies show band, 3 pc horn section, trumpet, tenor sax, and trombone. I have done stuff like this before, but always w/pencil & manuscript paper. I have successfully put together a couple of charts, and printed them to show to the horn section for their input. I printed 2 letter sized pages initially, but I don't want to print 2 pages, or 2-sided if I can help it.
What I would like is to print 2 letter size pages side by side on an 11x17 sheet. I have an HP7500 printer which will accept the B size paper, but I am having a very hard time figuring out how to print this way.
When I select 'Tabloid' as a page size in the program with 'Landscape' orientation, I always get score staves flowing all the way across the wide page. I don't know how to set the layout so that I have the equivalent of 2 letter sized pages side by side on the bigger paper. I tried using the printer driver preferences in Windows to print 2 letter sized pages side by side, but I couldn't get the scaling correct. The printout was way too small.
I'm scratching my head. Does anyone have any thoughts on this, or is this something that can't be done?
Thanks,
Larry Upton
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You wouldn't be able to do this within MuseScore. Instead, you'd print a PDF with an 8.5x11" page size, then use your PDF viewing software to print 2-up. The specific options would depend on what softwre you typically use to print PDF's, but I imaguine most programs would support this.
Sorry for taking so long to get back...life gets in the way sometimes.
Anyway, so this print format is not common? I remember in my school days when I was actually playing trumpet, when we got custom charts for the jazz band, they came hand written on one large piece of manuscript paper that had side by side staves printed on it, and folded neatly in half to fit in our folders. Has this gone away, or am I hallucinating again?
I will try the PDF printing setup, but it seems to be too many steps to me...
In reply to Sorry for taking so long to by Larry Upton
11x17 manuscript paper is sold in specialty stores, and 11x17 paper is used for publishing orchestral scores and sometimes - folder in half - parts. But since very few home printers can print that large, it's pretty unheard of for ordinary musicians to print on that size.
Assuming your PDF software supports it at all, it shouldn't take but a couple of extra seconds to tell it to do the two-up print as opposed to a normal 8.5x11" print. Also, even if your PDF software doesn't support it, if you have a special wide format printer capable of dealing with that size, chances are its own set up dialog lets you specifiy that. Again, would take only a couple of extra seconds. Probably the same place where you tell your printer which tray to use or whetehr to print double sided, there is a "2-up" option or something like that.
In reply to 11x17 manuscript paper is by Marc Sabatella
Thanks. My first post says that I have a printer capable of printing B size paper. That is the only reason I brought the subject up. I also tried the printer driver dialogs to print '2 up' as you call it, but the printouts always came out too small. Oh well...
In reply to Thanks. My first post says by Larry Upton
Way too small, or just a little? Maybe that's because it is trying to apply new margins on top of the margins already present. In Adobe Acrobat, for example, you'd need to tell it not to add margins. Anyhow, this stuff is all very specific to your particular model of printer and its setting dialogs, and/or whatever program you use to print PDF files. It's probably dead simple, but the specifics are veyr system-dependent, so unless someone here happens to have that exact model of printe,r this is probably a question better asked on an HP printer forum.