What drove the question is that I discovered that it has actually gotten worse since Fin08. Some intervening version caused it to start horizontally stretching shapes on reduced staves (even though the stretch option is disabled). This causes, for example, circles to become ovals.
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:56 AM, J D Thomas <j...@thomastudios.com> wrote: > As you already most likely know Robert, Shape Designer is probably the > WORST module in Finale. I think it's virtually unchanged since I first > used it way back in Finale 2.0, early 90s. You cannot copy / paste > anywhere it in to me knowledge. > > Whenever I need a certain character anywhere in Finale, I try to insert it > with PopChar, a commercial utility. But even then, Finale's copy/paste > routine is horribly inefficient and probably broken, at least on my system. > > I wish I could be of further help. > > J D Thomas > ThomaStudios > > On Apr 26, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Robert Patterson <rob...@robertgpatterson.com> > wrote: > > > Is there any way to enter text into the shape designer other than by > typing > > it? I would love to be able to paste it in, but that doesn't seem to be > an > > option. (I would like to use a symbol character for which there does not > > appear to be a keyboard combo.) > > > > In case someone knows a way to type a "◯" character on Mac I could try > that > > too. > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > Finale@shsu.edu > > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
