Darcy, I'm currently working on a project (a very graphics-intensive beginning band method book) in Finale 2003 in MacOS 9.2 on my G4 TiBook because the text line spacing and imported eps graphics are completely unusable in any version of Finale OSX -- even in classic. The worst offender is the imported eps graphics. They print out fine, but on screen in page view they are garishly reversed with big black rectangles surrounding white images, the black background obliterating any overlapping text or music. Apparently, MM never fixed this bug so I continue to work on this project in an older version in an older OS, backing up my work using Adobe Acrobat 5.
There is definitely something to be said for keeping an older computer around in order to be *completely* backward compatible. Brian > I'm quite upset about this. I had no idea this would be a problem > when I bought my MacBook Pro. Having Finale 2004 and 2005 locked out > on this machine hits me in the pocketbook -- hard. Many of my copying > clients require that work be done in older versions of Finale, and > now that's work I have to turn down. And, of course, opening > documents created in older versions of Finale in a newer version > inevitably introduces problems that require considerable proofreading > to catch. I don't believe there is any legitimate reason for > MakeMusic to disallow Intel Mac users from installing Finale 2004/ > 2005 and running them under Rosetta. This will be an ongoing problem > for MakeMusic as users gradually replace their PPC Macs with Intel > Macs, and then wonder why they suddenly can't register Finale on > their new machines. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
