I’m always on the lookout for software that will help me with my music. After auditioning several .pdf readers, I am growing really fond of Nitro PDF Software. It’s free! One of the ways I especially like to use it is in conjunction with purchasing digital sheet music from sources like musicnotes.com or freehandmusic.com. When you have purchased the music and have it on your computer screen ready to print, instead of printing it on paper, you can print it “to a PDF file” so you can keep it permanently and print it when you want. See the screen shots below. The first step is to select “print” from whichever application you are in, then in the box by the “Name” of the printer, select Nitro PDF. The next step, which is in the second screenshot, is where you give the new .pdf file a name. Then click on “Create” and you’ll have saved yourself the trouble of printing and scanning, if you wanted to have a permanent, reprintable digital version.

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