plz help !problems with writing music

[mila5405]

when i write any scores on Sibelius or Finale , how can i concert it to a PDF or Adobe file?


plz help...

[Bob]

Maybe something under "save as?"

Otherwise, there is a program called "Cute pdf," something like that with 'cute' in its title.  Instead of printing to paper, you can print to a pdf file.  I tried a lot of them and the cute one is the only one that could handle music notation.  It's free.

Or print to paper and then scan to a pdf but that's a little much.

[urbanspice]

Download pdf995 - www.pdf995.com - It is a free pdf conversion tool. There are tons but that is the one I use. (Go to download.com to find others).

When you download and install, go to the finale program - - - -
Go to print
Choose your printer and choose pdf995 as your printer
It will go and then a window will pop up asking you to name and save the file.
EZ as pie.

Pretty much any pdf converter that uses the "choose printer" method can handle finale or any other software files.

P.S., my motto is "If you can think, there's already a software to do it or  get around it"
I'm pretty much always right.

[Bob]

Does the pdf995 one work for music?  I think I tried it and it didn't.  That was a few years ago though. 

[urbanspice]

It works for me, no problems. Been using it for ages.

[mattgreenecomposer]

Well you should have sent me a personal e-mail on this one.  Sorry I am late for the response. But you don't need to download any program at all...
Go to "File"
"Print"
when you are about to Print it will say "Save as a Pdf" as one  of the options
"save it to desktop" or whatever
and voila!
I upload all the music on my website this way so I use it Frequently.

Finale is very convenient if you know the shortcuts.

[mknueven]

Matt,
Do you have Sibelius or Finale?

[mattgreenecomposer]

Finale 2006 and 2002...