My first step in solving finale font problems on the Mac would be about quitting Finale and opening FontBook (or whatever the English name is) and check for duplicate fonts.
Sorry if this has been mentioned already. Klaus >________________________________ > From: Christopher Smith <christopher.sm...@videotron.ca> >To: finale@shsu.edu >Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:41 PM >Subject: Re: [Finale] Problem with fonts > > >Finale is the only program I own that I have ever had to trash preferences >for, and I have owned only Macs since 1990. I don't know why. I also don't >know why recent versions of OSX started to hide the preferences folder, >complicating the trash prefs procedure. > >Macs perform routine maintenance at the moment of power up, so the only thing >to remember if you are in the habit of putting your computer to sleep instead >of turning it off, is to reboot it once a week or so. The "under the hood" >stuff is very rare in my experience (plugging in a new printer or MIDI device >or transferring data from a phone or camera is a breeze!), but between >trashing prefs and messing with the font manager every second week because of >Finale, I am getting good at those two things. > >Christopher > > >On Tue Jan 14, at TuesdayJan 14 7:23 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: > >> On 1/13/2014 8:11 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: >>> Have you tried trashing the Finale preferences? The procedure changes >>> according to the OS, so you had better find out where the correct >>> prefs file is stored. I do not, however, suggest trashing it and then >>> emptying the trash the way they suggest, as this may not solve the >>> problem and then you have a raw prefs file to reconstruct. I prefer >>> to drag it to the desktop, restart Finale, and see if that solves it. >>> If so, then trash the file. If it didn't solve anything, then you can >>> replace the new prefs with your old file. >>> >> >> Is this a common problem with Mac programs or is it just poor >> programming on the part of Finale developers? I don't recall any of the >> Mac users on the Sibelius group ever running into this problem. >> >> I'm a Windows person and am not asking in an attempt to start a platform >> war, but my daughter has a Mac, having given up on Windows and my wife >> is considering doing the same and I have a genuine concern over whether >> such "under the hood" repair work, common in Windows, is becoming more >> common in OSX. >> >> My daughter is very happy with her MacBookPro only having problems >> getting NetFlix to work properly all the time but it's not enough of a >> problem to get her to change back to Windows. But she doesn't do overly >> complicated things -- surfs the web, spends time on FaceBook and other >> social networking sites and does basic wordprocessing functions. >> >> My wife, on the other hand, does more intricate things, among them is >> using Finale on a regular basis and using WordPerfect's page layout >> functions (she's constantly frustrated trying to do the same things in >> Word), and I just want to know in advance what we may be getting into >> (computer maintenance and tech-support) if she makes the switch. >> >> Thank you for any calm non-flaming insights that anybody can offer. >> >> >> -- >> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
