Tip #6 - Make Complex Layouts with Multiple Printings on the Same Sheet

If you've ever noticed my MusEdit ads in various guitar magazines you may be surprized to know that I do them all with MusEdit, plus a little help from Windows' Paint. I attach samples so you can see what I mean...

The problem with making these ads is that music and text are mixed together in a way which isn't possible in a single MusEdit document, and there is text with different fonts mixed together too. I needed to use MusEdit to print the music at high resolution though, and I also appreciated the fact MusEdit can scale everything to almost any size, so I was able to print the same ads at both reduced and enlarged sizes.

The way around the combination of music and mixed font text is to create three different MusEdit documents and then pass the same sheet through my printer three times: once for most of the ad's text, once for the music, and one more time for the large font price (which is, as you see, $79 now!). Finally, I pass the same sheet through once more, this time using Paint to draw the outer box and to underline the ad title.

If you are preparing your own ads, a newsletter, or some other document which might require more complicated desktop-publishing page layout than you can achieve in a single MusEdit document you may want to use this technique.

Extra Tip:

If you have a situtuation in which you need to have a short staff of music on the RIGHT half of a page with text on the LEFT, you can create the music part of your project in a MusEdit document with the left margin set to, say, 5 inches so that when you print out the music it will appear on the right side of the page. Then when you pass the same sheet through your printer again for the text you can have the text on the left.

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