John, What I would certainly do in your case is print them to PDF without page numbers, then compile the individual pages into one PDF with a PDF editor that can add page numbers (there are many free or cheap ones).
If you were to use the Score Merger you would have terrible problems with titles, etc. from the merge process, not to mention baselines and the like would be messed up, unless they were scrupulously preserved from one document to another, which I am reasonably certain is not the case. Where the Score Merger is useful is when you have to combine two, three or four movements of a longer work, where you WANT everything to be consistently preserved from one movement to another, and you can mess with the movement titles individually. You DON’T want to redo those 200 times. Christopher > On Dec 9, 2016, at 8:29 PM, John Witmer <wit...@nctv.com> wrote: > > Robert, > I need your advice. I'm in the process of completing a 200 song compendium > using Finale 2014.5 When it is finished, (I promised it would be ready > "early" in 2017), I'll need to merge the individual charts for a single > document. This is for the sole use of a retirement community, but they'll > need about 100 copies. I believe I have volunteers who will fund the > printing, but I need to get good copy. > > Now, is Finale 25 good enough to undertake this task, or should I finish it > with Finale 2014.5? Either way, I'm afraid it will be a real chore. If all > else fails, I'll have to print 200 separate charts and collate them. This > will be hard because I need to print most pages "back-to-back" to keep the > total size less than an unabridged dictionary. > > Your advice would be gratefully appreciated. > Chordially, > John Witmer > Clemson Downs Retirement Community. > > On 12/9/2016 5:35:12 PM, Robert Patterson <rob...@robertgpatterson.com> wrote: > I've been messing with the Score Merger function in Finale 25. It does a > halfway decent job, but > > 1. It fails to copy lyric baseline adjustments (and I would guess probably > expression baseline adjustments as well). > 2. It idiotically goes nuts if a bar has too many beats (like a hard whole > rest in a 2/4 bar, which is frequently required for L1/L2 parts). > 3. It makes a mess of lyric text. > 4. It doesn't know how to create percussion staves that match the source > file, so percussion is a mess. > > Does anyone know a better way? > _______________________________________________ > 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
