Only that I have to make two trips to Kinkos. Not a huge deal, but if I end up printing this score a lot it becomes a royal pain. I only want to cut as many 13x20 sheets as necessary, because those are special-order items.
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Darcy James Argue <djar...@earthlink.net>wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Is there a reason why you can't cut the paper first, then print? > > Cheers, > > - DJA > ----- > WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org > > > > On 9 Jun 2011, at 11:34 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > > > So I've known for some time that Fin08 Mac has a bug that it prints blank > > pages under certain conditions. The way to work around it is to print to > PDF > > with the Generic Postscript driver and then print the PDF with the proper > > printer driver. Here is how this bit me hard. > > > > I have a 10x13 score that is too many pages to print as a foldover > booklet, > > so I would like to position the image on a 11x17 sheet to print on > > individual sheets and then crop it down. Seems like a piece of cake, > right. > > Here is where I entered the Twilight Zone. > > > > I can print the document correctly using my printer driver if the page > size > > is 10x13. However, if the page size is 11x17 it prints blank. Weird, huh? > > (Remember, the image is identical in both.) > > > > The catch-22 is that for this particular document I have to print to a > > postscript file then convert that to PDF, due to embedded EPS images. If > I > > print to ps file using the Generic Postscript driver, it produces a > garbled > > result. The Generic Postscript driver cannot print the file. > > > > Hence, it is impossible to print this file on 11x17 paper. I'm going to > have > > to print it as if it were a foldover booklet, but then cut the booklet in > > half. It will work, but it is a much more manual process with my printer. > > Sometimes I think computers are the devil's spawn. > > > > I have messed with both Preview and Adobe Reader, but I cannot get either > of > > them to take my current 10x13 file and impose it onto 11x17 pages in such > a > > way that I can print it double-sided and crop it down. This seems like > such > > a no-brainer tool, I can't believe it isn't out there. > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > Finale@shsu.edu > > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
