Re: [Finale] Printing in Classic environment

[Tim Thompson]

I would be all over Finale tech support about this until they solve it 
for you.  But I'm afraid they'll say that they only guarantee 2003 to 
work in Classic.  But it's worth a try.  There has to be dozens of 
other folks in the same boat.  I avoid using Finale in Classic, and 
have had mixed results printing when I have tried it, but I understand 
you don't have a choice.  This looks like a result of poor coordination 
between Make Music and Apple.  I understand that it is complicated, but 
every other software company is now board, INCLUDING Digidesign and 
Quark!!  Two of the most careful, slow-to-release, companies that so 
many pro Apple users rely on.  My hope is that we'll be able to get 
2004 by mid to late August.

On a related note, as a purchasing decision maker from an academic 
institution (a huge portion of Finale installed base), I think Make 
Music would be wise to start releasing upgrades by June 1 at the very 
latest.  Most academic institutions start their upgrade process in June 
or July, and try to make most of these type of purchases decisions by 
the end of the previous semester (late May).  Our lab upgrade requests 
have to be submitted to a faculty committee and voted on by a certain 
date in May, and the committee doesn't convene again until September.  
This year, we have to do the 2004 upgrade, and I have had to tell the 
committee to expect it and have asked them to convene as early as 
possible, and have told our Technology Services staff that we will have 
to wait until then to add it to the lab disk images.  Why do they time 
it so close to the beginning of the semester?

End of rant.  I feel better now.

Tim

On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 09:30  AM, Crystal Premo wrote:

or the interested, the Ghostscript port for Mac (MacGSView) is  
available here:
<http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost/macos/index.htm> <<

I have this now, although I could not get to the localhost:631 
configuration site.

I have tried printing to a .pdf from Finale, but all I get is "Finale 
- Error".  I can easily save it as an .eps file, but I do not see how 
to use Ghostscript to turn it into a .pdf.  I see no instructions.  My 
desktop is covered with icons, yet I am beginning to despair.

I have Finale 2002b, a new G4 with OSX.2.5, and an deskjet5550.  There 
must be a way to make this work.

Crystal Premo
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