Export File Names dialog

The Export File Names dialog allows you to determine the contents of file names for each graphics file format independently. You can use universal ingredients that update to show the correct information for each layout automatically, and you can enter text that is the same for all layouts.

You can open the Export File Names dialog in any of the following ways:

  • Click File Name Options in the Destination section of the Print Options panel in Print mode when the currently selected layout is set to Graphics.

  • Click Edit in the Exporting Files subsection of the General page in Preferences.

Note

Your settings are linked between both ways of accessing the dialog and are saved as the default for all future projects.

The Export File Names dialog contains the following options:

  1. File names for

    Allows you to select different graphics file formats. You can set different file name recipes for each graphics file format.

  2. Preview

    Displays an example file name based on the current recipe. The layout used for the preview is the one shown in the layout selector in the toolbar.

    For example, the preview for a full score PDF file name using the default recipe might be 01 - Full score - Lieder.pdf

  3. File name recipe

    Displays the recipe for the selected graphics file format. You can enter text directly into this field, and click ingredients to add them automatically.

    For example, the default PDF file name recipe is $n - $l - $t.

  4. Reset to Default

    Resets the file name recipe to the default for the selected graphics file format.

  5. Copy to All

    Copies the file name recipe to all layouts in the project.

  6. File name ingredients

    Allow you to add ingredients to the file name recipe quickly that are automatically populated as appropriate for each layout. For example, the ingredient $l becomes Piano when used to export a piano part layout.

    The buttons for each ingredient display both the information to which the ingredient refers and the characters for it.

    When you click file name ingredients, they are added to the end of the file name recipe. They are automatically separated from the previous ingredient using the default separator.

    Note

    The page number ingredient is not available for the PDF file name recipe as it is a multi-page format.

  7. Default separator

    Allows you to set the characters used to separate ingredients in the file name recipe by default.