Chord symbols shrink when Exporting to PDF

• Jan 4, 2015 - 22:22
Type
Functional
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore

I'm using the Jazz Lead Sheet style. When I Export to PDF, the font size of the chord names in the output file is much smaller then in the Musescore desktop

Ian Schwartz
Ottawa, Canada

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• Jan 4, 2015 - 22:33

Which version of MuseScore, what operating system? Can you share a score and the PDF to show the Problem?
If MuseScore 2.0 Beta 2 or a later nightly build and Windows, thos is probably a duplicate vor St least closely related to #41981: All spanners with wavy lines and dynamics marks are failing when exported in PDF format, and the same workaround, to use a PDF printer, would apply
If MuseScore 2.0 Beta 1, it may be a duplicate of #40646: [Windows] Exported PDF displays small symbols on Qt 5.4.0 and would be fixed (well, improved at least) in Beta 2

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• Jan 5, 2015 - 00:22

I tried the print-to-pdf route before posting this.
I'm using Acrobat XI 11.0.10
It errored out and created the following in a log file:

-------------------------------------------------------------
%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
MScore not found, using Courier.
MuseJazz-Medium not found, using Courier.
%%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: show ]%%

Stack:
()

%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
-------------------------------------------------------------

Looks like Acrobat couldn't find a font?

The only thing that worked for me was to output to .png.

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• Jan 5, 2015 - 02:50

I don't know much about Acrobat, but suspect it needs all fonts to be actually installed, which won't be the case with MuseScore's fonts. So instead of Acrobat, you want a PDF print driver like PDF Creator. These work well for the purpose (and others too).

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