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Exporting

Send a score as a PDF, an image, MusicXML, Guitar Pro, MIDI or audio, and print it.

Available on iPad, iPhone and Mac.

Your device
The Export sheet on iPad over a guitar score, six formats as cards with PDF chosen, and the Print and Export buttons.
The Export sheet, PDF chosen.
On this page

Every way a score leaves Reflow is in one sheet: a format, its options, then the file.

Exporting a score

  1. Open the Export sheet: tap Export (the square with an arrow) in the top bartap Export in the top bar, or, with the iPhone upright, the eye in the top bar, then ExportFile › Export › Export… ⇧⌘E, or Export in the window’s toolbar.
  2. Choose a format among the cards. The sheet opens on the one you used last.
    The Export sheet on iPad, PDF chosen.
  3. Set its options (below), then tapclick Export.
  4. Send the file: once it says Ready, tap the file’s card to share it: Save to Files, AirDrop, Mail or another appShare sends it to another app, Save As… saves it in a folder.

The formats

  • PDF: the score’s pages, as they print. Selected systems only exports just the lines of the score that hold the bars you selected (select more than one bar first; the sheet says which, Measures 3–8).
  • MusicXML: for other notation apps (Dorico, Sibelius, MuseScore, Finale).
  • Guitar Pro: Guitar Pro 5 (.gp5) or Guitar Pro 7 (.gp). The one chosen is kept, in Settings › Export too.
  • Image: PNG, a picture to share online, or SVG, a drawing that stays sharp at any size. Use score theme colors draws it in the score’s colours on screen; Transparent background leaves the paper out, for slides and web pages; Selected systems only, as for PDF.
  • MIDI: the notes, their timings and the score’s tempo, for a DAW or another app. Turn off Include tempo changes or Include time signatures to keep only the first tempo or time signature.
  • Audio: the score played by Reflow’s instruments, as WAV (lossless, a larger file) or M4A (compressed, a smaller file).

Which tracks

For every format but PDF and Image, Tracks chooses what goes in:

  • Skip muted tracks leaves out the tracks you muted.
  • Selected tracks only exports only the tracks you selected.
Choose PDF in the Export sheet and tap Print… beside Export: the system’s print options open with the score’s pages.
File › Print… ⌘P opens the Mac’s print dialog with the score’s pages; File › Page Setup… ⇧⌘P sets the paper.

In the free version, exports and printing hold the score’s first 10 bars (the sheet says so at its top), and a PDF, an image or a print carries a light watermark. The unlock lifts both (see The unlock).

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