For what it is worth, I decided, after spending WAY too much time dealing with Finale's clumsy and (to me) confusing page layout interfaces, to take the advice of a friend who is a NYC copyist.
I export each page of my finale files as an eps file. This is actually really fast, doable in a single step. Then I pop them, one at a time, into a Pagemaker document. For each complete work (or part) I keep a single set of eps files. Pagemaker can be set to update automatically when an eps is updated. For things that need both 2-up booklet and 1-up straight order, I make two Pagemaker files (that read the same single set of eps files). Then one can print anyway one wishes, in any size that your printer can handle, quickly and easily, with no loss of formatting (and resizing is virtually automatic, as is booklet making). I understand Pagemaker is not migrating to OSX. Shame . . . It is one of my favorite programs, and, when working with Finale, it is, for me, indispensable. (Oh, if only Finale were to deal with page layout in this sophisticated and straightforward a fashion,) Adobe, it seems, wants folks to upgrade to InDesign. Does anyone here have experience with InDesign, especially regarding matters of reading older Pagemaker files? David Froom > On 25.03.2003 22:44 Uhr, Paul Hayden wrote > >> If you have a multimovement work that you want to print out in >> booklet form (2-up, duplexed, folded and stapled), I assume that >> _all_ the movements must be in one Finale file. I would think that >> Jari Williamsson's "JW Booklet Preparation" plug-in, for example, >> would need to know the total number of pages to be printed in order >> to work correctly. > > I guess that this is correct. It seems to me that the length of piece that > can be put into a stapled booklet is not really that large to get too > worried about the file size. >> >> Secondly, if all of the movements must be in one file, does anyone >> have any suggestions for appending one movement (file) to another >> movement (file)? I've never tried this. > > A few problems. The only real way to do this is by copying from one file > into another. This will loose any page formatting, measure expression > assignments, and page text blocks. I also regularly have problems with clef > changes not copying, though there may be a work around. > > Johannes _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
