Firstly I read from the post that the black bar which was on top of the export is fixed with the update to 3.0.3. If not please let us know.
Here some general comments to the PDF export:
- Notation Software uses the lib from Haru to create the pdf export. This is the reason why the "Haru Free PDF Library 2.3.0RC2" appears to be used by creating the pdf.
- The pdf format is a printing format. The settings of the printing format is essential for a pdf. Same as for printing on paper the Format / Setup needs to be used to define the correct print format.
- The pdf export is a high resolution pdf in contrary to other pdfs like PrimoPDF, PDF24 etc. This is the reason why the size seems so big. By using the pdf Acrobat Reader the size can be easily adusted to the actual paper size setting the Zoom to pagesize in the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- For printing the size needs to be adjusted to the papersize a well.
- Because of the high resolution pdf, of course, the size of the exported pdf file is bigger than those of lower resolutions
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We have selected this setup for the high resolution pdf in order to differentiate the pdf export from those available from the freeware tools like PrimoPDF etc. However, these tools can, of course, still being used.
Hope this explanation helps.
Reinhold