On 4/18/2012 7:22 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: > > On Wed Apr 18, at WednesdayApr 18 9:05 PM, dershem wrote: > >> On 4/18/2012 12:03 AM, SN jef chippewa wrote: >>> >>> carl, i am about to upgrade a few things, including finale, and >>> wonder if you could tell me what you found so disastrous moving >>> from 2010 to 2012 (which is what i would be doing soon). >> >> For one thing, I could not upgrade on-line. I simply would NOT >> function, so even though I bought the upgrade on-line, I had to pay >> extra for a CD. > > Carl, did you give it enough time? The initial download is just the > installer. Once you double-click it, the ACTUAL download starts and > can take quite a while, especially if you don't have a super-fast > connection or the MakeMusic server was overloaded. It took me well > over an hour.
I tried at least a dozen times. It would freeze solid every time. >> For another, many functions ceased to function: "Hide staff" for >> part of the piano staff didn't work. > > Had you enabled "hide normally" in the group attributes IN THE PIANO > PART (just in the score might not do it)? Yup. >> "Extract Parts" would NOT save as [filename+partname+ whatevr] - I >> had to manually name each part. > > I haven't seen this, as I don't extract parts that often. Do you > have slashes in the staff/part name? That might kill a file creation > on Mac (I see it all the time when creating PDFs), and it has been > this way for a while. If you are on Windows, I don't know. There is a standard option for extracting parts, and it has been there for many years. It existed as a menu option but never worked. >> Page format was messed up - the first 3 pages of every part and >> score had to be enlarged 10 112% to be seen/print normally, and >> pages after that needed to be reduced to 70% to then match the >> earlier pages. > > I have my suspicions about that. There are several explanations, > involving the Zoom tool and the default page/system sizes, which I > have had to suss out before. Short answer, it's not a bug, it's just > an unwanted or misunderstood behaviour. If you could send me a file > privately, I'll check it out, and you won't be bothered with it > again. If it consistently does the wrong thing, it's a bug. I could send you files, but instead I will just revert to 2010, which works just fine. The only option I would like that 2010 doesn't have is to hide staves in the piano part, and I am used to doing that with a T-square and x-acto knife. Carl >> Those are just the three that I thought of first. It is just FULL >> of bugs and errors. 2010 works, 2012 does not - it takes more >> effort to do what 2010 did effortlessly. >> >> cd -- http://projectselene.com ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.18500) http://www.pctools.com/ ======= _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
