music sheet does not print correctly
Hello,
I installed MUSESCORE 1.3 under Windows XP and it is running perfectly. However, I cannot have it to print music sheets correctly. All my printers (external printers, Adobe Distiller, MS Office Document Image Writer) print abracadabra instead of readbale score. I'll be thankful to everybody who will will advise me the fix.
Many thanks, Pavel
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If you save as a PDF score change anything?
(you shut down and restart MuseScore?)
Many thanks! Works perfectly. I did not expect that PDF is generated when the score is saved as PDF. Great idea! Thanks again. Done.
In reply to Many thanks! Works perfectly. by pas99
However, it should be possible to print directly from the menu. Check the settings of your printer.
Buona musica!
In reply to I'm happy for you, by Shoichi
No, this does not work at all. I'm using Adobe 9.1 Printer (Distiller) to generate PDF from all applications available (office, CADs, etc) and this works perfect. It is configured properly, although there is actually nothing to configure. When printing from MUSESCORE, it generates the .LOG file stating that some fonts are not available. I'm also using Microsoft Office Document Image Printer sometime (.MDI file extension), and it generates something unreadable. Most probably - there are some music score fonts missing. I also tried free PDF Creator application, however this one does not output anything, just shuts up. This is definately something wrong inside the PRINT function of MuseScore. Should you need info, I can provide you Adobe log file and .MDI output. However, I can live with SAVE AS PDF once it runs correctly. Many thanks, Pavel
In reply to No, this does not work at by pas99
The primary objective of MuseScore is to produce printable scores. I've been running MuseScore under Windows XP sp3 for years and have always been able to print from a score that is opened - either from the menu: File / Print, or the Ctrl + P shortcut. It should not be necessary to save everything as .pdf, because a .pdf file can't be re-opened in MuseScore for further editing.
Are you able to print the 'Reunion' sample score that MuseScore opens by default? If you have a printer hooked up, you should be able to type 'Ctrl' + 'P' while the 'Reunion' score is displayed, after which a print dialog should open showing your installed printer(s)... and I don't mean 'Microsoft XPS Document', or 'PDF Creator', or 'Print to file'. The print dialog should also prompt for number of copies, page range, even showing a link to access printing preferences (eg. print quality, landscape/portrait, etc.)
Also, ignoring MuseScore for the moment, can you print text from Notepad, or Wordpad without as you wrote; 'using Adobe 9.1 Printer (Distiller) to generate PDF from all applications available (office, CADs, etc.'?
For most users, the difficulty usually occurs when creating a score, not printing it. You should not have to live with 'save as pdf'.
Regards.
In reply to Try to print 'Reunion'? by Jm6stringer
Sure, I'm using the PDF printer via the printer list rather than running Distiller directly (FYI virtual PDF printer just calls Distiller, this is why I told about Distiller). I'm experienced PC technical professional designing h/w for PC and writing drivers for Win/Linux, so I think that I know most about DOS, Windows, Linux, etc. No need to explain start-up details to me . I have printed the REUNION demo via PDF PRINTER and have attached PDF file to this message. You can see wrong fonts there. For my surprise, REUNION has been printed, whereas my scores do not (printing my scores just generate Distiller .LOG file with errors and that's it). What can you recommend me to do? Thanks, Pavel
In reply to No, this does not work at by pas99
THe problem I suspect here is that MuseScore embeds the music fonts in its code.
Consequently external PDF printers cannot interpret the Postscript stream correctly.
It is expected that users will generate PDF versions of the score from the Save As dialogue rather than using an external printer driver.
The problem I have found with PDFs is that MuseScore generated PDFs will not open properly in some editors, even with the embedded fonts installed in Windows.
HTH
Michael
In reply to THe problem I suspect here is by ChurchOrganist
That's look to be correct. This is what I found also. WHat a fix? However, I can live with SAVE AS PDF, because PDF is for archive, printing and sending to people rather than expected to be back read by MuseScore. MuseScore is a great tool. I have switched to it after 10 years f.. around with FInale, Sibelius and Encore. Very stable and easy to use. Great job. However I would appreciate that the guys would fix the PRINT bug in order to make it shining.
In reply to That's look to be correct. by pas99
Do the nightly builds have the same problem for you? If not, the bug has been fixed and won't happen in 2.0. If yes, it'd be worth a bug report in the issue tracker.
In reply to Do the nightly builds have by Jojo-Schmitz
What is the nightly build and where I can get it?
In reply to What is the nightly build and by pas99
http://musescore.org/en/download#Nightly-versions
Note that these are experimental and you should not rely on them for real and important work, just for testing
In reply to http://musescore.org/en/downl by Jojo-Schmitz
I see that the nightly version installation filename shows version 1-3. My installation file looks to have the same name MuseScore-1-3.exe. Is the same or different file? (just to save time to uninstall my release). If it is the same as I have downloaded two weeks ago via free download, then this is the release I'm using under XP. If you wonna me to check this under Win7, then I can do this tomorrow at my office and will let you know. I appreciate you great assistance. Pavel
In reply to I see that the nightly by pas99
look again, 1.3 is on top of the page, the nightlies are further down and can get install in parallel
http://prereleases.musescore.org/windows/nightly/
In reply to look again, 1.3 is on top of by Jojo-Schmitz
Done via latest NB 2014-01-24 release. Same problem. The PDF is not generated via printer. See attached ZIP file (rename to RAR). Shall be fixed...
In reply to look again, 1.3 is on top of by Jojo-Schmitz
FYI. I tested MuseScore printing option to the PDF printer (using PDF creator) under Win-7 and it works perfectly. All fonts are there.
In reply to Do the nightly builds have by Jojo-Schmitz
I'm also attaching you the REUNION print output via MS Office Doc Image Write printer. Just rename to .RAR and unpack.
In reply to Do the nightly builds have by Jojo-Schmitz
Last time I tested, which was some time ago, when I was looking to publish scores on Amazon, the problem was still extant.
There is somewhere a feature request for MuseScore to draw the actual outlines for music, which, I believe I remember when implemented meant it drew all text elements as outlines too.
Shortly after that it went back to using the embedded music fonts.
What the current status is I'm not sure.
In reply to Many thanks! Works perfectly. by pas99
Note also the 'batch export' plugin, which can do the conversion to PDF (and more) for you.
Esp. as you're using XP, where MuseScore's 'save as' has a problem with getting the files saved with the correct extension.
Sorry to hijack this comment but I have an urgent problem that my printerlist has disappeared. I can only print to file.
system; Linux (ubuntu 18.04) printing via CUPS. With other applications no printing problems. Musescore 2.3.2 installed using the snap version.
Can somebody help me out?
Many thanks,
Joep
In reply to Sorry to hijack this comment… by Joep L. Blom
Is your printer turned on?
In reply to Is your printer turned on? by mike320
Yes of course. The printers are wireless and functioning(there are 2).
I had a similar problem recently -- could print from a pdf but printing from MuseScore stopped halfway through. The printer was giving warning messages that one of the printer cartridges was almost empty, though most print jobs still worked fine. When I put a new cartridge in for that ink, I could print from MuseScore too. I don't know why, or if this has anything to do with the OP's problem.
In reply to I had a similar problem… by jcorelis
Thanks for the reaction but no that cannot be the case as I'm printing on both printers from 3 different stations but thanks for the suggestion.
Joep