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Hi

I need to print score for a professional book and I've been asked to create red notation (included all symbols, beam, stem, accident, slurs, notes etc..) abd keep the staff black. Something like the Medieval Red notation.

Is this possible, and if so, how?

Many thanks,

Matt

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Hi Matteo et al.,

Thank you for your suggestion. We do want to improve the level of control users have to set the color for all objects on the page. Your comments have been added to FIN-4321, the story in our backlog on the topic. Great tips by Pater and Mike. Thank you!

 

Cheers,
Michael Johnson
VP, Professional Notation
MakeMusic 

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Not really. Although you can set the preferences to show many of the elements in red (Preferences>Display Colors) there are some that aren't available to the color selection. You might do better by saving your score as a PDF, and changing the colors in a graphics program.

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Thank you Mike! I've just tried with Display Colours, and in fact, I can't change it for both clefs and time signatures. But then, when I try to export the score as graphics or print it as a PDF, colors do not show, they just chenge back to black.

I thought about doing it with a graphics program, but it impossible to keep the scores as a vector and it takes ages... maybe I should write in a InDesign or similar forums for this.

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In your print dialogue, you should see an checkbox to “print display colors.” Check that, and see if it helps.

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… I thought about doing it with a graphics program, but it impossible to keep the scores as a vector …

 

It sounds like you by your words “graphics program” mean a program that works on bitmap graphics (a. k. a. a painting program).

 

Instead, use a program that works on vector graphics (a. k. a. a drawing program), like e. g. Illustrator, or Inkscape.

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Thank you Peter! I'll try with Illustrator.

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And thank you again, Mike. Print colors is great!

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