Keith, Go to www.acronymfinder.com or www.dictionary.com and type them in. Do a google.com search on them. Look them up in your Finale manual-- ;-)
DPI = Dots Per Inch--this is how graphic quality/resolution (printed and displayed on screen) is measured. The higher the DPI the higher the resolution, thus the higher the graphic is in quality. <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=DPI> PDF = Portable Document Format. Created by Adobe Systems, inc. so that folks can share documents made with different programs. Adobe distiller and GhostScript are used to create 'em. Finale's User Manual is PDF files. <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=portable%20document%20format> TIF = Tagged Image File Format. This is a type of graphic file that finale creates. <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=tagged%20image%20file%20format> EPS = Encapsulated PostScript file format = A graphic file format developed by Adobe that actually uses font information to display the graphic. A much higher quality image than TIF or JPG. Finale creates these files via the graphics tool. <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=encapsulated%20postscript> OSX = Macintosh Operating System X (as in the roman numeral). Mac OS 10 is the latest and greatest operating system for the Macintosh. www.apple.com/osx WAV = Waveform. Audio file format for creating audio CD's <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=WAV> EVPU= Enigma Virtual Page Unit. Finale's own proprietary measurement unit. It can divide equally into any common measurement unit. There are 288 EVPU's in an inch...113 in a centimeter. Look em up in the User manual. GIF = Graphics Interchange Format. Useful for high color images on the web. <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=graphics%20interchange%20format> JPG = JPEG = is a certain type of graphics file, named after the Joint Photographic Experts Group, who came up with the file format. <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=joint%20photographic%20experts%20g roup> Carbon = The API (application programming interface) used to make macintosh programs run natively in Mac OSX and take advantage of the new features of the OS. <www.apple.com> Pstill = a program to make PDF files. <http://www.wizards.de/~frank/pstill_qa.html> XML = Extensible Markup Language. It's kinda technical, but it's a markup language like HTML, but you can create it's functionality as you go. Finale for Windows ships with a plug-in to change a Finale file into an XML file. <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=extensible%20markup%20language> Again, I found all this information in about 20 minutes by searching www.dictionary.com and www.google.com. It took me longer to type it out than to find it. Have fun, Allen -----Original Message----- From: helgesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 5:16 PM To: Finale Subject: [Finale] Glossary. I'm a habitual reader of long threads-being retired I have the time, and I learn a hell of a lot by reading other folks Q & A's. But- dumbo that I am (here goes!) what are; DPI PDF TIF EPS OSX WAV EVPU gifs, lowlevel jpegs, carbon, pstills, xml, jpg. (That list is just from this week's mail!) All you gurus seem to use these thingywotsits all the time- (I probably use them)- but it makes understanding the various Q & A's very difficult not knowing what they are. Is there a "Finale Glossary" or somesuch bible? _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
