Re: Half-sheet music

[Rick Hansen (aka RickH)]

Yes, the most important part in the end is to get LilyPond to output your
desired document size as seen on the "print preview" dialog in Adobe Reader
(this dialog shows both the document and paper sizes).  Getting document
size correct will allow you to incorporate the headings, etc. with no need
for laborious after-fudging of the lilypond output.

If your system fails to recognize the new form name or your printer wont
handle the cut sheets is an entirely different problem (more of a nuisance
because you can always load larger paper with a recognized form name and cut
the sheets after printing).  But the Adobe document size must be correct for
lily to "fit the page" and for any outputting to PNG to also have the proper
graphic dimension.  This is why adding the new form to your systems print
server is important, even though you may not physically print to that form
at print time, lily will base the document size upon that form at compile
time.




Benjamin Esham wrote:
> 
> Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote:
> 
>> Mattl wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to re-write a hard-to-read half sheet of music for my  
>>> marching
>>> band.  It needs to take up a half sheet, and i can't figure out  
>>> how to do
>>> this.  The dimensions I need are 8.5 by 5.5 inches, and i need  
>>> them ASAP.
>>> Thanks in advance for any help!
>>>
>>> P.S. I have tried everything i can think of.  Nothing worked.  I have
>>> spent about 2 hours trying to figure it out.
>>
>> I dont know what platform you are on, but I use custom paper sizes  
>> all the
>> time on WindowsXP, here are the steps to follow: [...]
> 
> I had to do this same thing recently, except that my paper was even  
> smaller than a half-sheet.  I've tried to use non-standard paper  
> sizes with LilyPond before, and it never worked, so here's what I  
> did.  These instructions will only work directly in OS X, but are  
> probably adaptable to anything.  (I'm not actually printing on  
> smaller paper, I'm just cutting pieces out of a US Letter page.)
> 
> 1. Typeset your piece in LilyPond as usual.  Use a larger staff size  
> than you normally would; use no headers and set tagline="" so that  
> nothing but the music is output.
> 
> 2. Use pdfcrop on the output PDF.
> 
> 3. In OmniGraffle (or another vector-based drawing program), make a  
> rectangle of the size of your paper.
> 
> 4. Drag the cropped PDF into the OmniGraffle document and resize it  
> to fit the paper.  Add the piece title or whatever.
> 
> 5. Print and cut out your music.
> 
> Hope this helps someone somewhere!
> 
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