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The software below works in trial form and converts to the full system when you enter your licence number. When licensed it needs to be activated within 30 days or it will return to a trial version requiring you to enter your licence again.
Your licence never expires, so if you change PCs and have a discontinued version  (and don’t wish to upgrade 🙁 ), please email us for a download link to discontinued versions.
Click on the links under Version for a history of changes and improvements to the software.

To get the best out of the software set  it to download updates. Click on help and online updates to choose the settings for this.
Mac versions are shown in red.

Installing capella 8 for the first time If you accept the defaults capella will install under the heading ‘capella software’. The intention is that capella-scan etc. will also be under this main heading. Therefore, after installation, when you click on Start and Programs you should look for the capella software heading and not for capella 8.
Upgrading to capella 8 and removing the old version
After installing capella 8 you will have two entries on your list of programs – the old capella and this new capella 8. You can uninstall the old version by clicking on the entry in Program Files. You will then see an option to uninstall as well as to start the program. Alternatively you can go into Add/Remove Programs under Windows Control Panel and do the same.
Note Uninstalling capella does not remove any of your music files that you have created with capella. However we would always recommend that you back these up first, as I am sure you have learnt that with computers nothing can be guaranteed! Uninstalling the old version can in some circumstance remove the music font. If this happens, re-install capella 8. Usually your web browser will give you the choice to Run or Save the program. Run will download our installation program to a temporary folder creaed by the browser. The browser will then run the install module in our software and after our software is installed the browser will ‘tidy up’ by removing the downloaded installation program. The software will be installed, but should you wish to re-install the software you will need to download it again. If you choose to Save the program the install module will be saved to the folder that you select and you must then Run the installation program. The simplest way to Run the installation is to double click on it.
To print your music You can specify any stave size and re-order the pages for double sided printing from within capella. To easily produce booklets, rescale between paper sizes and combine lots of separate scores into a book, please look at the  FinePrint. FinePrint is a universal printer driver that will enhance the printing capability of all your software – not just capella. It provides a simple way to print in booklet form, double sided, and with watermarks or revised gutters and margins. You can also combine documents at the moment of printing into sets and add new page numbers and headers/footers to pull the  separate documents together into a single publication.
To email or publish on the internet. Please look at pdfFactory it provides a simple way to convert scores to PDF files which anyone can then read and print. pdfFactory also gives you the flexibility to allow people to see, but not print or copy the  score.