 Note
on viewing, printing and downloading music, movies and pix
Printing music off theWeb pages:
What follows is how it works on Internet Explorer using windows XP operating
system. The same basic mechanism works with most browsers.
The idea of the song webpage is to show all of the music scores and the
words together and to give the words as text so they can be used
or printed out in different formats. If the score is too big or takes
two pages there is often a link to another page.
The music on the website is mostly in the form of gif images
which are essentially photo's (like jpg or mov which are other formats
used
in cameras and on the internet). The reason for using gif's is discussed
at the end if anyone is interested.
You can print out the web page as you see it if you click
on 'File' on the menu at the top of the web page and then choose 'Print':
it will print out the whole web page.
You can set the magnification, whether it is 'landscape' or 'portrait'
view in the settings of the printer or go to Preview.
You can change settings there including setting a custom magnification.
You can adjust 'custom magnification' so you see what you want before
you print it. More information on printing at the correct magnification
is here.
However, if you only want to print the music and not the
headings or the words, you can get the music only by clicking on the image
of the printed sheet of music: just hover the mouse anywhere over the
music score and left-click i.e. a normal click.
A new page should open which should show just a page of music. You can
look at this on 'File/Print preview' where you will
probably need to change the magnification: as an example at 35% magnification
one gets a full page of the score from 'Ode to privatisation' on an A4
sheet. Select 'Custom' in the top window on the right and enter '35' as
the magnification. The default is 'shrink to fit' which doesn't seem to
work to give a full page. This can then be printed out normally. If there
are two pages of score you click on each score-image one after the other.
Some of the web-pages have links to special pages for single
pages of music but these will have the headers and links at the bottom
so cannot be as big as just the image.
Many web sites use pdf files which has the advantage that
noone can change the settings but lacks the flexibility of being able
to use an image of the music score in whatever way one likes including
putting it in word docs or resizing it.
GIF's are an old image format (1987) mainly for text that
was superceded by jpeg or jpg which came along for photo's.
Gifs ran into patent problems in 1994 which meant people moved on to other
formats but it stayed as a useful format
on the web where it is used because it gives small files of black and
white images.
To download files onto your computer you should right-click
with you mouse as the mouse cursor hovers over the link
and choose 'save link as' if you use the Firefox web
browser or 'save target as' if you use Internet Explorer.
For more complete instructions on downloading
click here
For more complete instructions on printing click
here |
