Forgive me if this has been already discussed. This graphic issue seems to have so much history and I am getting confused. This is FinMac2k8 on G5 Dual2.5.
I haven't done much of graphical notation since I quit copying for others long time ago, but did a lot of them back in v2.6 - v3.7 days. Last night, I just had to redo one of my old client's work, only to find it doesn't work as it used to. - The Shape Designer GUI is so buggy. Zoom sometime works sometime doesn't. Click n drag handles sometime works sometime doesn't. Once my current position was sent to Y:-900+/X:-109,800+(!!) throwing the object I was drawing unreachable. At that point, there was no way to go back to the null position but to cancel out. What a frustrating tool it became. - The Group option doesn't keep them together when Horizontally resize. I don't remember this behavior. - When I have a few text objects in a shape, their positioning is a huge mess. What I create doesn't align on Scroll/Page Views when I get out from the Score Expression. PITA. So, I decided to create eps file in Illustrator CS3. I imported with Graphic Tool. The alignment is a joke. I placed it to a measure in Scroll View. When I go to Page View, it is placed to few stuffs above, while handle is still on the measure. If I click on the handle, the image shrinks(?!). I them placed the eps file within the Shape Designer. Finally I got the result I need. It prints file on my PostScript printer, but the Maestro font stuff lines (I had to use this since Fin2k8 doesn't honor eps transparency) became dotted line if I print to PDF, which is the delivery format. I don't remember if it was Christopher or someone else but I remember there are a few Finale Graphic experts around. Any help would be appreciated. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
