Copyright statement weird printing behavior
I'm experiencing a frustrating problem which I think is a bug running Musescore 9.6 on Windows XP.
Whenever I try to print a score with a one line copyright notice in the default position, on letter paper with the page settings set to letter size, only the top half of the copyright notice prints. That is, only the top half of each character prints.
Changing the bottom margin size doesn't affect this.
If I move the copyright notice up a bit with the mouse and print, the notice prints ok, but if I save the file, close it, and open it again, the copyright notice is back where it was before I moved it, and the same problem appears when I print it.
This happens all the time, and it happens whether the score page is full of staves or has only one or two on it with a lot of white space between the bottom most staff and the copyright notice.
On multi-page scores, it happens with every page.
I don't think it's my printer or printer set up, since I print lots and lots of things and I've never noticed this happening with any other application.
I did a quick search on copyright here and didn't find that this had been reported before?
I'm appending a sample score that I checked to be sure it acted as described above.
Any advice?
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| The Nyuk-Nyuk Waltz.mscz | 1.83 KB |
Comments
It happens to me too, with page numbers too.
I think this is because my printer (an HP DJ) cannot print in the last 2 cm or so and the copyright notice (in your case) or the page number (in my case) fall partially inside the forbidden area.
What I do is changing the relevant text style(s):
1) Menu "Style | Edit text style"
2) Tab "Copyright" (and/or "Page number odd" and/or "Page number even"): change the "relY" value to something slightly less than 100% (meaning: 0% = top of page, 100% = bottom of page, other values are in between).
OR
2) in the same tab, you may try decreasing the "Y" value (here decreasing means UP and increasing means DOWN), for instance from the default -15mm to -18mm or to -20mm.
The cumulative effects of these two values ("Y" and "relY") is "place the copyright vertically at 15 mm above (minus) the 100% of the page".
Hope it helps,
M.
In reply to Try this: by Miwarre
Thanks, that seems to be working so far. The only problem remaining is that I wanted the copyright notice to be centered, and when I save and bring back it keeps getting left-justified again. But I'll just leave it like that.
I was also getting page numbers cut off. You can move them by the same technique, but you also have to follow the instructions here.
In reply to Thanks, that seems to be by Scrivener
You should be able to go to > Style > Edit Text Style > Copyright and there, set the justification as well as other settings.
Regards,
The copyright is centered by default, simply changing its vertical position does not (should not...) affect its horizontal position.
Or am I missing something?
M.
In reply to It should be centered by Miwarre
I think I wasn't describing what happened well enough. I had a mult-line copyright statement, since I wanted to use that field for additional information (and I know that's not "what it's for" but users of any application have an irritating habit of using fields for what they want to even if it's not what it's for.) The multi-line copyright statement was centered within the copyright field box, but when I saved the score and opened it again, the lines were back to being left-justified.
In reply to I think I wasn't describing by Scrivener
Yes, I can confirm this.
What seems to happen is that, with multi-line copyright texts, the last line is centered in the page width and the previous lines are left-aligned with the last line left margin.
I'm attaching a sample score (a screen-shot would be simpler to look at, but on the PC I'm working now, there is not a suitable image manipulation prg :-( ).
Tests made with 0.9.6 RTM under Win XP.
M.