I use WinFin2003, and just had a disaster with uploading a PDF produced after some minor edits on a file. I did nothing but alter some of the note values in some measures (altering quite a few dotted whole notes to be whole notes plus half rest). I didn't think about it, and just reprinted the PDF.
The original layout was 4 pages, 1 piece on pp. 1-2, the other on pp. 3-4. The PDF I just printed came out with the piece on pp. 1-2, the last system of p. 2 repeated on p. 3, the 2nd piece on pp. 4-5 and the last system of p. 5 repeated on p. 6. I immediately recognized the problem when informed about it and opened the file, went to page layout view, hit Ctrl-U and reprinted, and it came out fine. Certainly I could auto-update layout and avoid this problem, but I'm *never* going to do that. Do recent versions of Finale manage not to screw up existing layouts? Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I tend to work back and forth between 75% and 100% view and perhaps printing from one or the other magnifications causes the problem? Does this still happen? I certainly haven't encountered it when I hadn't even changed anything but the internal content of measures (i.e., changes that don't have any effect whatsoever on the width of measures). This really screwed up a project that needed to be finished by tomorrow night, and now won't be (because I'm totally booked all day tomorrow). And it makes me look really stupid, given that I was bitching about the form in which the editing was conveyed to me. I'm definitely in a really bad mood right now. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
