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Igor Engraver Manual

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APPENDIX D<br />

384<br />

Questions<br />

I think there is something wrong<br />

with the tempo when recording. Is<br />

there a way to solve this?<br />

Printing and Exporting<br />

When I print, the spacing does not<br />

look optimal. Has this anything to<br />

do with Page Setup?<br />

When I try to print, the layout gets<br />

cropped. How can avoid this?<br />

On a Mac, <strong>Igor</strong> <strong>Engraver</strong> seems to<br />

freeze when I try to print. The place<br />

where the print dialog was became<br />

blank. What is this?<br />

I have tried the above, but printing<br />

still doesn’t work!<br />

Answers<br />

Sending Tick Events to the synth sometimes fails. This means<br />

that a real-time-recording session can be quantised using a different<br />

tempo than that of the metronome, causing a rhythmically<br />

incorrect result. Should this happen, a temporary quick workaround<br />

is to press Record, then immediately stop a few times and<br />

make sure the metronome sounds at the tempo chosen in settings.<br />

Also, if you are using Macintosh, you should not use<br />

QuickTime for playback of the tick, because of the extreme<br />

latency.<br />

Well, almost. In the Template/Piece Preferences window’s General<br />

pane, be sure to set the paper size to the one you are actually<br />

going to use. For instance, if you can only print A4 sheets, do not<br />

use the B4 setting.<br />

In the Print window, choose <strong>Igor</strong> <strong>Engraver</strong> from the pop-up<br />

menu, and choose ”Shrink to fit paper”, or, if that does not<br />

entirely solve your problem, ”Shrink to fit imageable area”. The<br />

reason for this problem may be that the wrong paper size is<br />

selected. See above for solution. You can also set the print scale to<br />

99% (maybe smaller) in the Page setup dialog.<br />

Try pressing Return or Enter. There is no crash but the MacOS<br />

fails to display a dialog box requested by <strong>Igor</strong> <strong>Engraver</strong>, and is<br />

waiting for you to ok it. Pressing Return or Enter will cancel the<br />

print command though, so you cannot print, but you will not<br />

have to restart.<br />

Another possibility is that the print driver (print monitor) for<br />

your printer chokes on the files <strong>Igor</strong> <strong>Engraver</strong> sends. This can<br />

happen if your printer is not a PostScript printer, in which case<br />

<strong>Igor</strong> <strong>Engraver</strong> sends bitmap files that will print out with the<br />

same quality as the PostScript ones. However, these files can be<br />

very large and seem to be problematic for some print drivers. The<br />

solution here is to increase the memory for the driver (usually by<br />

increasing it in the memory settings in the info dialog for the<br />

print monitor for your printer). Increase it by several megabytes.<br />

Try 5MB; if that does not work try 10MB. You can also decrease<br />

the bitmap resolution in the <strong>Igor</strong> <strong>Engraver</strong> pane of the Print window.

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