How can I share my music with my friends who don't have my Notation program?

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	How can I share my music with my friends who don't have my Notation program?

Solution To share your music with friends (eg. send them a song file via email, or post your music on your website), there are a few different options, depending on what you want to do.

1. If you would like your friends to see and hear your compositions, you can point them to download our free Notation Player from http:// www.notation.com/DownloadNotationPlayer.php Notation Player will allow your friends to see the score just as you do, and to play the file so they can see the notes highlight as they play. Your friends can also print the music score if they would like a paper copy.

2. If you only want them to hear the music, then in Notation Composer or Notation Musician you can use File/Export...MIDI and export a .mid file which they can use on any media player (eg. iTunes or Windows Media Player, etc.)

3. If you only want to share the printed score, you can use a program like PDF Creator (free/donate at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/) or Cute PDF (free at http://www.cutepdf.com) to save a PDF copy of your score. These programs work by (a) installing the program and then (b) in Notation Composer (or any other program that prints), select File/Print, and then choose PDF Creator (or CutePDF) as the "printer". This will then save a pdf copy of the score for you, which you can send to your friends.

Of course you can also tell them how good Notation Software products are, and persuade them to buy their own copy - we appreciate your support!

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10 Jun 2012 11:05 AM