Edit and export a score

Where the file tools live

Every file operation for the open score starts in the reader's Toolbox (the wrench button in the top bar). Its Edit This Score section holds Rearrange pages, Crop, Dewarp & Clean, Share, and Print. Page edits always go through an explicit save step, so the file you started from can stay untouched.

Limit Rearrange pages, Crop, and Dewarp & Clean edit a PDF. On a piece with no PDF version they are unavailable: Rearrange pages and Crop are dimmed with the hint Needs a PDF version of this score., and Dewarp & Clean with Needs a PDF version (a scanned or photographed score). A Smart Score's notation is corrected through its own tools instead — see Smart Score overview.

Rearrange, rotate, or clean pages

1. Open the Toolbox and select Rearrange pages.
2. Drag a page card to its new position.
3. Use a card's own buttons to rotate that page, duplicate it (the copy is inserted right after it), or delete it. Delete is disabled while only one page remains.
4. Use the bottom bar for whole-document actions: rotate all pages left or right, Add page (appends a copy of the last page), and Clean.
5. Select Save As…, then Save as new version to keep the version you opened and switch to the edited copy, or Save as current version to overwrite the open version in place.

The reader reloads the saved result immediately. Undo and Redo step back through every edit, including a Clean run.

Clean straightens skewed pages and trims white margins automatically, then reports what it changed — for example Cleaned · straightened 2, trimmed 4 of 12 pages, or Already clean — nothing to trim.

Important Review the pages after Clean before saving. Automatic trimming can remove intentionally wide margins or marks that sit close to a page edge.

Crop pages

1. Open the Toolbox and select Crop.
2. Drag the crop frame over the visible page. The arrows under the page move between pages; the counter shows your position (Page 1 / 12).
3. Frame each page separately, or turn on Apply to all pages to reuse one frame everywhere. Reset clears the frame.
4. Select Save As…. The crop is written as a new PDF version; the version you opened keeps its full pages.

Straighten a photographed score

Dewarp & Clean is for scores that entered your library as phone photos or rough scans. Clean publisher PDFs usually don't need it.

1. Open the Toolbox and select Dewarp & Clean.
2. Choose what to fix. Correct perspective (dewarp) flattens a page photographed at an angle or curved; Auto-clean for legibility converts to grayscale, lifts contrast, and sharpens for crisp black-on-white.
3. Select Preview. The Before and After columns compare the first page while the whole document is processed; a progress bar tracks the run. Change the switches and select Re-run to compare settings.
4. Select Save as new version. The cleaned copy is saved as a new version of the piece; the original stays attached, so you can switch back.

Limit Dewarp & Clean processes at most 80 pages per PDF; split a longer document and run it on each part. It changes only the page image, never the notes — for wrong or missing notes after a conversion, see Fix a wrong conversion.

Share

Share in the Toolbox opens the system share sheet with the score's file. The full set of export choices lives in Properties — tap the piece title in the reader top bar, then select the share button:

• Share file expands a list of every file attached to the piece — the source PDF, each saved version, MusicXML or MEI. Pick one to send it as-is.
• Share annotated PDF builds a copy with your Apple Pencil ink baked in, so any PDF viewer shows what you drew. The row reads Baking annotated PDF… while it builds.
• Share score package assembles a portable .ptbundle containing the score files, metadata, annotations, anchors, alignment traces, Follow calibration, and recordings. Another Page Turner user can open it as a complete piece.
• Invite to collaborate… shares the piece through iCloud so another person works on the same copy — score, annotations, and practice assignments included. A cloud-only piece must be opened once on this device first.

Every export is a copy. Edits you make afterwards in Page Turner are not reflected in a file you already sent — export again.

Print

1. Open the Toolbox and select Print, or use Print Score… in the Properties share menu.
2. Leave Print Annotations on to include your ink, or turn it off for a clean copy. The choice is remembered for your next print.
3. Select Print for the system print flow (AirPrint), or Share PDF to send the same printable file somewhere instead.

A PDF piece prints its source file directly. A Smart Score with no PDF version is engraved into a printable PDF on the spot — Engraving score PDF… appears while it renders. A movement you saved as its own piece prints only that movement's pages, not the whole volume.

If the annotated copy can't be prepared:

• When your ink can't ride along on this print, the sheet prints the plain score and says so: Your annotations can't be added to the print here yet — printing the score itself.
• When building the annotated copy fails outright, Print and Share PDF pause instead of handing you an unannotated copy silently. Select Continue with the plain score to go ahead without annotations.

Note A cloud piece needs a local copy before it can print. Open it once on this device, then return to Print.

To manage the ink itself — layers, symbols, fingerings — see Annotations.