My impression is that imports from any version starting with Fin98 into any later version work pretty well. Not flawlessly, of course, but with the same level of errors as in this example. The real challenge come with files from any version earlier than Fin98.
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Christopher Smith < christopher.sm...@videotron.ca> wrote: > > On Wed Mar 2, at WednesdayMar 2 7:35 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > > > On Wed, March 2, 2011 6:34 am, Christopher Smith wrote: > >> Wow! Given the complexity of your music and the number of kludges you > must > >> have implemented, this is enheartening. > >> ...for now... > > > > These aren't too complicated, but it was an interesting experiment. You > can > > compare them... > > > > F2000: <http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/pdf/ratgeyser.pdf> > > F2011: < > http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/pdf/ratgeyser-f2011.pdf> > > > > The new version's PDF is smaller as well (539K vs. 726K). > > > > Dennis > > > > Hmm, substituted a bold instructions font (that was you, I suppose, not the > import?), but a mighty fine import overall! > > The slurs got thick and nasty, but they are a single edit document-wide, if > you wanted to make the edit. > > This, and Michael Good's comments about improved 2011 imports of old docs, > make me feel much better. I am, though, per Darcy's suggestions, going to > make PDF prints of all my documents from now on, so at least I can > reconstruct them if the file format goes bad in newer versions. > > Christopher > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
