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Elezeid
March 24th, 2010, 07:50 pm
I'm sorry if it seems unnecessary to post a whole new thread, but I posted in the general discussion, and it went completely unnoticed. And I need to know the answer to this question asap.

Anyways. I need to know if cakewalk has a way to save sheet music as a gif or pdf or anything like that.

Nyu001
March 24th, 2010, 11:40 pm
I have no idea of this. But if cakewalk has an option in 'file' for print, then you can try primopdf.

M
March 25th, 2010, 12:21 am
I'm sorry if it seems unnecessary to post a whole new thread, but I posted in the general discussion, and it went completely unnoticed. And I need to know the answer to this question asap.

Anyways. I need to know if cakewalk has a way to save sheet music as a gif or pdf or anything like that.

What version of Cakewalk are you using? Did you enter everything via Piano Roll, or did you use Cakewalk as a sequencer?

I know Cakewalk 5 has a view for seeing staffs of MIDI components in your project, but it's not nearly as powerful of an engraver as Finale or Sibelius, so I'm not certain what kind of quality this will have. Most likely, you will have to use a PDF printer such as Primo (http://www.primopdf.com/index.aspx) or CutePDF (http://www.cutepdf.com/) to get your product out (warning, these PDF will be HUGE), unless you want to take the time to decompose the MIDI file into Lilypond (http://lilypond.org/), which I highly discourage.