I reported this bug almost 3 years ago in Finale 2012, verified by Makemusic tech support; apparently still not fixed. It's a bug in the 3rd party pdf exporter used by Makemusic, so they can't fix it directly. The stray characters tend to show up on pages with lots of triplets, but as I recall there are other problems as well. In addition, the Finale built-in pdf export is slow and produces humungous file sizes, up to 10x other print-to-pdf solutions; even if it wasn't buggy, I would stay far away from it. I've tried many print-to-pdf apps (and even paid for some), and my current favorite by far is Bullzip, which is fast, full-featured, produces very small file sizes, and is solid as a rock. Plus it's free for individual use: http://bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php (sorry Mac people, Windows only). I wish the name was different, but I've been using it for several years now and wouldn't think of using anything else.
-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 Dennis Bathory-Kitsz Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 9:29 AM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: [Finale] Stray things on PDF that I can't find Hi all, Here's an image comparing export-to-PDF vs. print-to-PDF. <http://maltedmedia.com/images/finale/export-vs-print.jpg> The export has those stray "3" characters at the bottom of page 2. I can't locate them in the Finale file. They appear to be slightly larger versions of the "3" that I use for tuplets. I've zoomed out in both page and scroll view to see if they were scattered somewhere way out of view. No luck. Any clues on how to find them? And why they might only appear in a Finale export-to-PDF and not the print-to-PDF? They don't appear on other files that use the same template. Dennis _______________________________________________ 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
