At 12:00 PM 21/06/2002 -0500, you wrote: >I have been off-line for awhile (recovering from junk mail onslaught), so > > sorry if you have already addressed this: > > > > I have just installed FinWin 2003 (from 2002b) and immediately notice that > > the angular beams look much more jagged than ever before on the monitor. > > Flat beams look fine. But more disturbing is that they print out > > jagged/stepped as well. > > > > I also printed out a score that was converted from FinWin 2002b to 2003. > > The printing quality was very poor -- crooked stepped beams, drunken > > barlines and skew-whiff stems everywhere. (HP Deskjet 690C). This was a > > very disappointing start to the upgrade. I was very happy with Fin2002. > > > > Initially I thought it could be that I still had other versions of Finale > > installed, so I removed all traces of FinWin 2001, 2002, Finale Notepad and > > Fin2003 - including a trawl through the Windows Registry - and then > > reinstalled 2003. But still the same problem. > > > > I assume that this is a font problem? Any suggestions?
>Johannes replied....... >If it is beams and barlines it can't be a font problem. > >Have you tried printing now from 2k2? It sounds to me as though perhaps you >haven't calibrated your printer. You should do this whenever you change >cartridges with inkjets, and I believe the HP drivers suggest this anyway. > >If it doesn't happen from 2k2 but does happen from 2k3 you should report it >to Coda, but as far as I can guess it doesn't look so. And probably has >nothing to do with 2k3. OK, it looks the same in FinWin 2002b, and I'm puzzled because I don't remember it being quite so obvious. It prints out badly too (it didn't last week!), so you're right, I must have a printer driver/calibration problem. What I find confusing is that when I produce a PDF file of the example, the jagged beams are reproduced on the PDF file. I note that the ReadMe File for FinWin 2003 says there is a known issue with some HP deskjets regarding unaligned printouts of noteheads and stems, but I have never had this problem before. As I said earlier, I will work on the printer drivers and the printer itself. Thanks, Rodney Waterman Melbourne, Australia _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
