Allen, I think you misunderstood. I have been trying to get the Page
Setup dialogue to REMEMBER what the default page setup is. It doesn't
seem to be connected to Finale, though it is in Finale that I most
often have to do it.
This seems to be a Mac OS issue. Go into any Mac app that has the Page
Setup dialogue box, and the first item, Settings, has a "Save as
Default" command. Invoking this seems not to stick the way that one
expects. Sometimes it sticks, sometimes it doesn't.
Back to Finale now. But most often, if you have EVER gone to Page Setup
in your score and clicked on something, THIS gets passed on to all the
extracted parts. If you can possibly restrain yourself from ever
opening up that dialogue box in your score UNTIL you have extracted
parts, then your extracted parts seem to inherit the default setting.
I sometimes print out a draft of my score before I extract the parts.
My scores are often on larger paper. When I set the Page Setup dialogue
box in the score, I have to CLOSE the score without saving so that it
doesn't remember the settings.
A Finalescript solution is a workaround to the basic OS problem.
Christopher
On Sep 13, 2005, at 6:33 PM, Fisher, Allen wrote:
Nope. This isn't the issue. The request is to be able to use a
finalescript
to change the page setup on a bunch of files...
On 9/13/05 5:02 PM, "Chuck Israels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said this:
Chris,
Does this have anything to do with the fact that Finale wants to use
the page setup of the default file you are using at the moment?
Don't know if this is part of the issue, but I'm just reminding you
of this in case, like me, your memory is good for modeling
Emmenthaler cheese.
Chuck
On Sep 13, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Sep 13, 2005, at 12:27 PM, Javier Ruiz wrote:
Now if FinaleScript could change the paper size in the Page Setup
menu...
Yes, I just noticed this again (FinMac 2005, OS 10.3.9)
I have been switching back and forth, trying out the capabilities
of my new (well, second-hand, really) HP 5100 printer to print 2-up
on one sheet of large paper, and I tried to set the Page Setup so
that it was Tabloid size and Landscape orientation, then saving it
as the default. I was only partially successful. A few pages
printed correctly, then suddenly the computer decided to default to
the OLD page setup (US letter and portrait.)
I had to check the Page Setup manually for EVERY page I printed!
Every one I checked was correct, but as soon as I DIDN'T check one,
it printed with the OLD default! Wacky or what?
Then when I tried to revert back to US Letter and Portrait and save
THAT as the default, it appeared to work, until I inadvertently
created a PDF that used the 11x17 landscape setting when I didn't
want it to. Crap! How did it remember that setting, especially
after I had EXPRESSLY saved the original default?
FWIW, I had NO problem defining the OTHER printer to be the default
printer, nor getting it to default to 2-up, nor getting it to feed
the paper from the correct tray. It was only in the Page Setup
dialogue box that I couldn't get it to work by default.
I can see this taking a whole lot of mouse clicks if I can't work
it out.
Anyone have any insights?
Christopher
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