Seven-string guitar tab paper
Seven-line tablature staves for extended-range guitar, with the added low string at the bottom of the stave.
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The seventh string is a low B
Standard seven-string tuning adds a B a fourth below the low E, giving BEADGBE. The extra line goes at the bottom of the stave, and everything you already know about reading tab is unchanged: the lowest-pitched string is still the bottom line, which remains upside down relative to how the strings look when you glance down at the instrument.
Why tab matters more on seven strings
On a six-string guitar a written note has a manageable number of plausible fingerings. Add a seventh string and the same pitch may be available in five places, several of them unplayable in context. Tablature resolves that in a way staff notation cannot, which is a large part of why extended-range players write almost exclusively in tab and argue about it less than everyone else does.
Eight strings and beyond
Eight-string instruments add an F♯ below the B, and the generator will draw eight lines if you set it. Below that the spacing becomes the constraint: eight lines at 3 mm is a 21 mm stave, tall enough that fitting three or four systems on a page is the limiting factor. For a full piece rather than a riff, tighten the spacing slightly and check that two-digit fret numbers still read cleanly.
Printing it accurately
This only measures correctly if your printer doesn't rescale the page. In the print dialog set Scale: 100% — not "Fit to page" or "Shrink oversized pages". If you're not sure it worked, print the calibration page, measure the ruler on it with a real ruler, and it will tell you exactly what your printer is doing to the page.