Chances are that the print dialog is still there, behind the Finale window. Same problem with Finale 2012 (Win7), which insists on being on top when it shouldn't; this happens for me in print dialogs and the 3rd party pdf printer I use. BTW, the internal pdf generator has known bugs in both Finale 2012 and 2014 -- it produces stray triplet "3" characters along the bottom of certain pages -- plus the pdf's it produces are 4-5 times larger at the same quality level than other pdf software I've used.
-Lee Lee Actor Composer-in-Residence and Assistant Conductor, Palo Alto Philharmonic http://www.leeactor.com -----Original Message----- From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of David H. Bailey Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 1:37 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] Layoffs and reorganization announced at MakeMusic On 11/20/2013 4:09 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > I use Digital Performer, and I don't see MusicXML. They do have Final Cut Pro XML, OMF, AAF, and AudioDesk (which I believe is a scaled down version of DP they ship with their hardware interfaces). > [snip] My first thought when reading about the reorganization at MakeMusic is that the new owners, being venture capitalists and not software developers, are looking to reshape the Finale team so they can make it more marketable to another company such as Cakewalk. Steinberg is developing their own notation program, Avid has Sibelius to go along with ProTools, Presonus bought up Notion, so the only independent notation program is Finale. Thinking like a venture capitalist, that's what I would do -- invest in modernizing the code so that it could more easily be incorporated into another product line, get a new upgrade out the door to recoup some of the investment as well as prove to potential corporate buyers that there's a thriving marketplace still, then unload just Finale or possibly the whole company or spinoff SmartMusic on its own and sell that also to some educational software company. Only time will tell -- in the meantime I'm satisfied with Finale2014, at least so far. The only problem I've run into is that when I print, if I need to change something in the printer driver, such as duplexing, once I OK that dialog the entire Finale Print dialog disappears. Then when I click Print again in Finale, the computer beeps at me as if I was a stupid fool and Finale's print dialog appears again. I have no idea if that's a Finale problem, a Win8.1/Finale-combination problem or what, but it's annoying since I can't set up the duplexing from within Finale's print dialog. -- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ 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
