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Copyist is the music notation tool that lets you create with ease those tricky musical examples that more expensive and complicated programs trip over their feet trying to reproduce. Because Copyist treats notes, staves, clefs and other musical characters as graphical elements, you've got the freedom to put musical objects on the page regardless of musical rules.

This freedom allows you to easily create small excerpts to be included in work that is predominantly text, as well as very complex scores which are difficult to create using software which must follow musical rules. Copyist lets you save your scores as .BMP, TIFF or .EPS files so that you can incorporate them into your Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PageMaker and many other types of documents with a few mouse clicks.

Key features of Copyist:

• Big pages
  Copyist now handles pages with as many staves as you like. Kiss the 16-stave limit goodbye.

• Multiple undo
  Work secure in the knowledge that you can go back at any time as far as you want if you don't like the changes you've made.

• Export Windows Enhanced Metafiles
  Now you can export vector-based .EMF files that scale easily while retaining their clarity and sharpness. Staff lines and stems look right no matter how much you stretch or contract your exported scores.

• New 32 bit Open and Save file dialogs
  Since Copyist 6.0 is a 32 bit program, you get all the bells and whistles that the latest versions of Windows have to offer. And that includes big new Open and Save File dialogs.

• Change the weight of your printed scores
  You can now choose the weight of staff lines, stems and bar lines to give your scores a heavier or a lighter feel.

• Scroll a pixel at a time
  Scroll buttons now scroll the display a single pixel at a time.

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