To the Finale list gang,
Here is an exchange I had recently with the Make Music lads,
bemoaning the lateness of FinMac 2004. If any of you were unaware of
these guys, this might help in a pinch.
I have also heard that in many cases it is possible to have BOTH
Fin2003 and Fin2004 open at the same time, tile the windows, and drag
the contents of the 2004 file into the 2003 window, (assuming they
have the same number and arrangement of staves, of course) then save
the 2003 file before sending it on to your friendly neighbourhood
FinMac2003 user. Any idea if this works?
Oh, well.
Christopher
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Dear
Christopher,
Thanks for your
email, which points out one of the terrible consequences of this delay
for some of our customers.
There is one
solution we can suggest for you to work with Finale 2004 files, but it
does involve some work on your part. I asked our manager of tech
support and Quality assurance about it and here's what he
said:
Michael Good created a plug-in
(currently available only for Windows) that will allow Finale 2004
Windows users to (among other things) save files in the file format of
earlier Finale versions. This plug-in costs $39.95. More info is
available at http://store.recordare.com/doletfin1.html
The same company also offers
translation services - if you have a file created in Finale 2004 for
Windows and you need to read it in Finale 2003, they can do the
conversion for you. Prices start at $10. http://www.recordare.com/xml/translation.html
If the person sending files from a
Windows machine has the Dolet plug-in, the
sender can convert Finale 2004 files to an earlier
format and send these files to the Mac recipient who will then be able
to read them. If the sender doesn't have the Dolet plug-in and simply
sends Fin2k4 files, the recipient could still pay Recordare, on a
file-by-file basis, to convert any Fin2k4 files into a
format the recipient can read (like Finale 2003 - or
earlier).
I hope that this might be a workable
solution for you if you have some important work to do while you're
waiting for Finale 2004. We're doing our best to hurry and get the
software right for a January release.
Thanks for your patience.
Best wishes,
Sean
Lafleur
Chairman and
CEO
MakeMusic!
Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher BJ Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 3:10 PM
To: About Mac
Subject: Re: Finale 2004 Macintosh Pre-Order Update
From: Christopher BJ Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 3:10 PM
To: About Mac
Subject: Re: Finale 2004 Macintosh Pre-Order Update
December 11, 2003
Dear Macintosh customer,
You have waited patiently for Finale 2004 and we need to ask you for just a little more patience.
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Please continue to share your questions or feedback with us at [EMAIL PROTECTED].
Hi,
One of the things that makes this
delay the most problematic is that we Mac users have NO way to read
files sent to us in Fin 2004 format. For previous versions we could
use Finale Notepad, available for free, but for months now there has
been no recourse for exchanging files between 2004 users and us poor
orphaned 2003 users.
Please hurry!
Christopher
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