On 4 Jul 2002, at 12:45, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 12:10 PM 7/4/02 -0400, you wrote: > >The platform is PC for Finale and Word, where the documents to go to the > >PROFESSIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGNER are produced. > > I don't used EPS anymore, because I prefer to use PDF, and most print > houses are fine with that these days.
Well, PDF requires the purchase of something to produce the PDF files. Also, this is not a matter of exporting Finale scores, but of embedding musical examples in Word documents that the graphic designer will then import into Quark or PageMaker or whatever to produce the final layout for sending to the printing house. > But I have produced EPS when needed, and just to be sure, I did it now. > > It works. Oh. You wanted more. :) > > 1. Open the music file in Finale. > 2. Print. In the dialog, change to the postscript printer (for this test I > used Acrobat 3). > 3. Printer properties. Choose EPS. Do other resolution stuff as you like. > 4. Print to file, using .eps extension (one page at a time for EPS). > > Although I don't have a current MSWord (I still use Word6 when I have to, > but it doesn't care for EPS), the EPS file I just created places and prints > just fine in Pagemaker 7.0, and that page printed out just fine on my Xerox > P12 printer. > > Is this what you wanted? Well, it's not very good, actually, as it is page based. In the present instance, the musical examples are one per Finale file (why anyone would do that, I can't say), and EPS export as you describe will produce a full page, most of it blank. That won't import very well into Word, as it doesn't include a TIFF preview (for sizing) and because you can't crop out the white space in Word. Nope, the graphics export to EPS is really the only way to do this. BTW, the print to EPS worked fine in terms of printing from Word, whereas an embedded EPS graphic exported did not. I think it probably has something to do with the fact that in the font dialog, the PS version of the Engraver font is listed as a printer font, rather than a soft font. I don't know why, actually, as I know the Finale PS fonts are installed on this computer. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
