I tried viewing it in pdf form with the built in OSX preview program, I
exported a page in PICT format & viewed it with the Preview program and
both had the darker lines show up. However, when I viewed the pdf in
Acrobat 7 reader, it looked just fine. It appears the problem shows up
with the Preview Program.
I tried adjusting the barlines and that does seem to have an effect. I
went into staff attributes. staff setup and changed the barlines for
one of the percussion staves that is affected. I changed the top
barline from 24 to -64 and the bottom barline from -24 to 64 (I just
picked the number 64 to see what would happen). Now when I view the
pdf in the OSX Preview Program, the dark part of the line for that
particular staff is significantly reduced. The paper printout is still
unaffected. I could probably get it to disappear completely if I enter
a large enough number. I suppose I could adjust the barlines enough so
that they disappear and are no longer a problem, however, I don't seem
to have the sfaff setup option available to me with the standard 5 line
notation option selected. So the only barlines it seems I can change
would be the ones where I have staff:other selected such as in the
percussion staff. That doesn't seem like a real good solution. Is
there something, perhaps I missed when setting up the group barlines?
My concern is that I make perusal scores available in pdf format, so I
don't want these dark lines to show up at all.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: finale@shsu.edu
Sent: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Finale] inconsistent barlines
On 28-Mar-07, at 4:35 PM, dhbailey wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am working on a score for full orchestra. The score is complete
>> but when I print it to .pdf, the bar lines for part of the score >>
are darker than other parts. I first noticed it in the perc parts >>
where I reset the staff lines for two of the 5 staves to a 3 line >>
grid. The bar lines for these two staves extend slightly above >> and
below the staff. When I print to pdf, these two barlines are >> darker
than the rest of barline which extends through the entire >> percussion
section. In fact, the barlines for the woodwinds & >> brass are also
darker than the strings & the other staves of the >> percussion
section. It looks like there was a second barline >> drawn over the
first one for the ww, brass & the two perc staves, >> making them
darker than the others.
>> The paper printout doesn't seem to be affected, just the pdf >>
version. Is there a setting that I missed which needs to be >>
adjusted?
>
> When you print from the PDF are the barlines which are darker on->
screen printing fine?
>
> I think there's a problem in the screen rendering which may well >
not appear in print from the same file.
I have seen this very often with PDFs from Windows machines, viewed on
my Mac. When I view with Preview (the default viewer in OSX) the some
lines appear gray or overdrawn, particularly barlines and beams. When I
view with the latest Acrobat Reader, all looks fine. In both cases,
though, printout is not affected.
Mac-produced PDFs (from the built-in print dialogue) do not seem to
exhibit this behaviour at all.
Christopher
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