<p>Hi - my daughter is trying to get her score (she uses Cubase) into a pdf format so that she can upload it as part of her composition portfolio for decision desk. I am NOT tech or music school submissions savvy, unfortunately, and she needs help getting this figured out. Does anyone out there have a suggestion of what she can do to get this converted? Score editor in Cubase lets us see the score, but we can’t convert it. Thanks for any help! -J</p>
<p>I don’t know cubase at all, but if their support doesn’t help (their website is pretty dismal, to be honest), the other option might be a print to pdf utility. If it allows you to print out a score, you may be able to use a program that instead of printing something, turns it into a pdf file (one program I believe was called printtopdf, back in the day). If you look on CNET, you may find something that works. I can’t guarantee it will be compatible with Cubase, but if all else fails, I would try this.</p>
<p>Last year I needed to pull the audio from a video file for an audition screening. I am not tech savvy either. I asked at our local shop that is like a geek squad and they said if I had trouble they could probably figure out a way to do it. I ended up finding an online program that I was able to get it done myself. If you have some similar type of business in your area you might just inquire as a backup option.</p>
<p>It does allow her to print the score - although even that’s a little wacky. She has asked the decision desk folks about it too so we’ll see what they come up with. Thanks for the ideas! -J (who is losing her mind trying to help her kid navigate this stuff, lol)</p>
<p>It’s not elegant, but worst case, you could print it, scan it, save it as pdf.</p>
<p>If your computer has a print driver for a laser printer (postscript output) you should be able to use the print command BUT select “save as PDF.”</p>
<p>thanks everyone! She finally printed it out, scanned it, saved as a bitmap image, then converted to pdf. Round-about but it works!</p>
<p>Phew! (amazing what you learn during this process, isn’t it?)</p>
<p>oh yeah, stradmom! I’m just glad she/we figured it out before Dec. 31 (deadline is 1/1)!</p>
<p>Glad you figured it out. </p>
<p>For future reference, there’s probably one or two ways to do that without having to go print it out and scan it. musicprnt & kmcmom13’s suggestions of print-to-pdf is the first thing I would try in that situation. I’m not super familiar with Cubase, but if she has a third-party notation software like Finale or Sibelius, she should also be able to export the project as .xml or .mid and import it into the notation software where she can save as pdf. MIDI imports will almost certainly lose any manually inputted markings and probably some formatting, but all the notes, rhythms, ties, etc should be correct and in their own staves.</p>
<p>As a current music major, I’ve had to export scores to .pdf quite often, and even if I had my own printer/scanner, I wouldn’t want to waste paper on something like that. If she doesn’t already have Finale or Sibelius, she might want to look into getting one of the two, whether or not she prefers to use Cubase or any other DAW for notation on her own non-assigned work. They’re considered the professional standard for notation softwares, and I’ve been required to use one or the other for multiple classes so that professors can open my scores in-program on their computers for analyzing during midi playback.</p>
<p>Thanks! That’s good information, 27dreams.</p>