Sarah Willis, the famed Berlin Philharmonic horn player, is coming to Toronto later this month. I was asked to write an 8 part horn arrangement of the theme from “Hockey Night in Canada” for a planned mass-horn flash mob at the Conservatory before the masterclasses (permission was obtained to do the arrangement). Prosaic as this may sound, do not laugh: it’s Canada’s 2nd National Anthem!
This was a great opportunity to experiment with adding additional layouts as this is an outside flash mob and I thought I’d design different part-sizes from which the organiser could choose; single page portrait letter, or two to a page landscape letter, or single band paper, etc … The feature is extremely powerful and changing the layout and printing options of an entire group of parts was extremely quick and easy. I would recommend everyone to experiment with this: it’s a real gem of a feature.
Couple of bugs however:
- I had occasional crashes trying to export everything to pdf at once. No problem dealing with small groups at a time however.
- Renaming the layouts didn’t save. After reopening the program, the new names were lost.
Cheers all!