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[mrarnesen]

I have one more question that is quite important before buying Notion 3. When I print to PDF with the demo, the PDF gets pretty bad quality. Looks like its with quite low resolution. Is there any way to make good PDFs with this software?

[Surfwhammy]

I have one more question that is quite important before buying Notion 3. When I print to PDF with the demo, the PDF gets pretty bad quality. Looks like its with quite low resolution. Is there any way to make good PDFs with this software?

QUESTION: Which operating system are you using (Mac OS X or Windows)?

QUESTION: What type of computer are you using?

QUESTION: Which printer are you using?

If you are using an Apple computer, then the PDF quality will be excellent and scalable, in which case the problem is your printer or printer driver, but if you are using a Windows computer, then the problem could be a combination of the PDF software (including any drivers) and the specific printer (including driver) you are using . . .

I use a 2.8-GHz 8-core Mac Pro here in the sound isolation studio, and this is an example of a PDF score generated by NOTION 3, where I use a custom size page, since instead of actually printing on paper I prefer to use digital media to view it on the screen. With a photograph quality printer, the score as printed on paper will look better than it does on the screen, since a high quality printer has significantly higher resolution than a computer display. On the Mac, doing PDF stuff is easy, because Mac OS X has all the required PDF software and so forth, but on a Windows machine it depends on the specific PDF software you decide to use, although it appears that Windows 8 (Microsoft) is going to have a PDF viewer ("Windows Reader", which displays PDF files and other types of files) . . .

[NOTE: I learned to read music notation as a child when I was in a liturgical boys choir and at the time was a soprano, so I only learned soprano treble clef. Consequently, soprano treble clef is very easy for me, and I do everything as if it were soprano treble clef, which is easy to do in NOTION 3 since I can set a staff to play its notes 1 or 2 octaves higher or lower, as well at other higher or lower intervals. Hence for bass, I use a soprano treble clef but I set it to play two octaves lower, and this works for me in part because here in the sound isolation studio there are exactly 12 notes and 8 octaves, which makes everything vastly simpler from the perspectives of mathematics, geometry, and acoustic physics, and sometimes I expand the perspective to 9 octaves, but I do not have a keyboard with 108 keys, which tends to make it a bit frivolous, although I do not have a keyboard with 96 keys, either. I allow plenty of what one might call "in-between" notes, but I consider them only when I switch to working with textures using the Frontal Eye Fields (FEF) region of my brain, which I successfully reprogrammed a few years ago, thereby making it possible to be successful in my 20-year effort to teach myself how to play grand piano without ever actually playing a grand piano, although I did give myself perhaps an hour or two test on a real grand piano once every year or so, just to see how much progress I was making. And for reference, while I made a bit of progress during the first 15 years, the big leap in progress came after I got a drumkit and realized that a grand piano is like a drumkit which has 88 drums, cymbals, and assorted Latin percussion instruments, which combined with discovering how to get in touch with my inner idiot savant soon led to attaining the aforementioned goal, where "Starlight" (The Surf Whammys) is an example of composing and playing grand piano on the fly in real-time on the first take, where even though it sounds like a "Wall of Grand Pianos", it actually is one grand piano part which I ran through a bunch of cascaded echo effects pedals, since I like a lot of echo . . . ]

"Sparkles" (The Surf Whammys) -- PDF (90KB, 5 pages)

And this is the MP3 file for "Sparkles" (The Surf Whammys), which features a fully "sparkled" Psaltery Harp from the World Instruments Collection of Xpansion Tank 2 (IK Multimedia), which is best enjoyed while listening with studio quality headphones like the SONY MDR-7506 (a personal favorite), since the song is designed specifically to make it easy to hear the individual notes of the Psaltery Harp move around within what I call the "Spherical Sonic Landscape", for which my avator for this FORUM is one vector plane, which is fabulous . . .

"Sparkles" (The Surf Whammys) -- MP3 (4-3MB, 298-kbps [VBR], 1 minute and 55 seconds)

[NOTE: These are real instruments, and it was recorded during the period when I only did stuff one time, which was based on rather naively believing that Paul McCartney did everything on the first take, which was something an audio engineer told me, except that I misunderstood what he said and did not realize that he was referring to background vocals for a few songs on the R.A.M. album. I thought it was amazing that someone could compose and play stuff on the fly in real-time, so I decided to do everything that way for a while, which was an interesting experiment and led to discovering how to reprogram the Frontal Eye Fields region of my brain, which made it not entirely stupid in the grand scheme of everything, but so what . . . ]

"Starlight" (The Surf Whammys) -- Kick Drum, Electric Bass, Grand Piano, Synthesized Fog -- MP3

Fabulous!

[mrarnesen]

As i'm not so good on computers I didn't understand everything of what you wrote, lol. But it got better as I changed the resolution for the print

[Surfwhammy]

As i'm not so good on computers I didn't understand everything of what you wrote, lol. But it got better as I changed the resolution for the print

QUESTION: Which operating system are you using (Mac OS X or Windows)?

QUESTION: What type of computer are you using?

QUESTION: Which printer are you using?

I do everything on an Apple computer, so if you are using an Apple computer, then I can provide more detailed help, but there are folks who are knowledgeable in working with NOTION 3 on a Windows computer, so these are good questions to answer, because some of the information is specific to the type of computer you are using . . .

Lots of FUN!

[tubatimberinger]

It's something in your printer settings. Notion prints pdf's to whatever specs/settings you tell it to. Depending on what software you are using to create you pdf's, this might not be something you can change. I recommend Primo pdf. It's free and prints perfectly for me.

tim

[pauldrake]

It's something in your hp 901 printer cartridge from InkJetSuperStore.com printer settings. Notion prints pdf's to whatever specs/settings you tell it to. Depending on what software you are using to create you pdf's, this might not be something you can change. I recommend Primo pdf. It's free and prints perfectly for me.

tim

^ +1. Check your printer settings. It doesn't concern the actual PDF or printer. You may have a default printer settings that may cause such bad quality to produce when you print out your PDF. Google it, you'll see the right printer settings. Best of luck.