For the whole part the available parameters are:
The first page printed contain (in top) also some information
about the musical area like the title, the publisher etc. This information
should be also displayed and printed from a PS file produced by the publisher
in order to allow them a highest personalisation.
Since WEDEL Editor is a very powerful tool for the editing of the music there is a separate editing session for the printing of music sheets, with a formatting approach especially orientated to the printing of the music page. Formatting for the screen presents several differences to the format for the printed page. The main difference consists in the change of the point of view: in fact while on the screen the formatting lead to change visual presentation with the view, even often if the main window is often resized, formatting for the printed page means to keep the size of the canvas in which objects are put fixed and not view dependent.
In order to allow a perfect correspondence between the displayed data an the printed data the printing module allow to the user to have a preview of the sheet selecting "Preview" button.
The preview gives to the client the possibility to change the justification since the printed sheet have to be in a professional format. The principal parameters that change the views is the magnification. On order to solve the problem a virtual page is considered under the displayed one.
If an A4 page is considered the displayed window show a different part (bigger or amaller) from the page. The magnification 1 should be created in order to reflect a corrispondence 1:1 between the width of the displayed window and the A4 page. Obviously the displayed window have the scroll bar in order to cover all the virtual page to be printed.
Several parameters can be fixed, which helps to delegate to the system some decisions on the layout, keeping the possibility of changing them if manual adjustment is required. For example: automatic line-breaking of the page, necessary when finally the page is printed since professional layout of music sheet is required, also to make the reading of the music easier; justification and parameters of justification, for example linear or log scale justification type and related tuning parameters.
The editing session for the printing is very similar to the standard session on the screen, but the formatting parameters like spaces and number of measures on the line is especially orientated to the sheet page. This means that the user have a particular view on the music piece with a one to one ratio to what finally the printing session generate on the page.
Please note that the parameters used for formatting music
in the printing preview section are saved into the symbolic file separately
from those which are used for formatting music when it has to presented
on the screen.