What Carolyn said! I'm also using an Apple 30" Cinema HD display (wide-screen) and it's unbelievably great running at a resolution of 2560 x 1600 (!) on my quad G5. A flat screen this size has been a 30-year dream for me! It's plenty bright, too. I run it at about 60% brightness unless it's very sunny out in the winter.
In Scroll View at 100% I can easily see (and easily read) 13 bars across and 14 staves down. And I love the 200% page view, too. I definitely recommend getting the largest wide-screen you can afford. **Leigh On Sat, Aug 11, 2007, Carolyn Bremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A wide monitor is terrific. I have the 30" cinema and I'll never go >back to anything smaller (or square). I can see (in a usable >percentage) a full score top to bottom, and one or more phrases left >to right in scroll view (often at 100%). In page view, I can get an >8.5x11 page at 200%, (just cutting off the bottom margin). Amazing for >editing. There is plenty of room for palettes and even a word doc with >text (or a web page or -- for those tedious days -- a movie window. >Did I just admit that?). > >There are very few issues with stretching square to wide. There are >some smarmy web designers who add a command for full screen, but you >can always drag it back. I find few web pages force full screen, and >those that do are usually in fixed columns. > >I'd simply get the biggest monitor that you can afford and have room >for. Screen real estate is a precious commodity. > >-Carolyn _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale