TutorialsA. Converting a .MUS or .SIB to PDF: ON A MAC: * Choose File > Print * Click the Save as PDF button If you want to use the Sibelius batch printing processes such as 'Print Folder of Scores' or 'Print Multiple Copies' via the pdf creator then please do the following: * Open the application Print Center (from Applications > Utilities on your mac), then select * Choose IP Printing, Printer Type: LPD/LPR, Printer Address: localhost, Queue Name: PDF Printer, Printer Model: Generic, then press the Add button. Now you have created a Generic Postscript Printer. * Next, in the Sibelius Print Dialog (File > Print) you choose your newly created printer, look for Output Options, then tick Save as File and choose as Format PDF. Then under Presets choose Save and give this setting a distinct name (for example Printing as PDF). * If you set this printer as Default Printer, whenever in Sibelius you run the Plugin "Print Folder of Scores" or "Print Multiple Copies", the PDF Printer will be selected. Thanks to Klaus Bundies for that last bit of information on setting up the generic printer. Note that the above procedures only works using Sibelius 2.1 or later under Mac OS X 10.2 or later. ON ANOTHER OPERATING SYSTEM: he official PDF creator is Adobe Acrobat, which is a commercial product available from www.adobe.com for both Mac and Windows, but there are other options: 1. For Windows, a pdf creator many users have had sucess with is: pdfcreator.sourceforge.net 2. For Windows, a cheaper commercial alternative than Adobe's is pdf995, available from www.pdf995.com 3. For Windows, another alternative is pdfFactory, available from www.fineprint.com 4. For Mac, an alternative package is Jaws PDF Creator, available from www.hallogram.com 5. A cost-free alternative is to use Ghostscript, which is a PostScript interpreter capable of creating PDF files. It is available for both Windows and Mac from www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ and is updated frequently, although it can be difficult to set up at first. B. Creating a .ZIP file containing a .PDF and a .MP3: 1. Place both files in the same folder. ON A MAC: 2. Hold Cmd and click the two files to select them both. 3. Press Ctrl and click on either file 4. Select "Compress 2 items" from the command menu. ON A PC: 2. Download winzip. http://www.winzip.com/downwz. 3. When in winzip, select file, new, new archive. 4. Navigate to the folder the files are in and select the files. |