Hmm. I could have sworn that this one from John Witmer was the original post. But anyway, I would certainly welcome an easy solution, regardless. Especially involving multi-movement works with linked parts. But also single-page songs for a songbook.
Christopher > On Dec 9, 2016, at 8:29 PM, John Witmer <wit...@nctv.com > <mailto: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 Dec 13, 2016, at 2:42 PM, Robert Patterson <rob...@robertgpatterson.com> > wrote: > > Actually, I'm the OP. But the 200 individual files is not my use case. If > had that one I would probably go the pdf processing route too. > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Christopher Smith < > christopher.sm...@videotron.ca> wrote: > >> The OP has 200 individual songs to include in a book. That means 200 >> titles, 200 lyricist/composer fields to enter and position, and possibly >> copyright info or text boxes with instructions. >> >> The computer can put all the individual PDFs into one PDF file and number >> them automatically, with no extra messing around with titles, etc. I’d >> definitely go with combining PDFs. This is what the computer is for, for >> sure. >> >> Christopher >> >> >>> On Tue Dec 13, at TuesdayDec 13 1:44 PM, Robert Patterson < >> rob...@robertgpatterson.com> wrote: >>> >>> FWIW: >>> >>> If you make sure that both (all) file you are merging have the exact same >>> staff list and staff properties, then Score Merger works pretty well. >> This >>> is likely if all the files came from the same template. Otherwise it may >>> take some messing with. >>> >>> So far what I've found that it messes up is: >>> >>> 1. Lyric text gets mangled, but if each file has different >>> verse/chorus/section numbers, you can recover pretty well using tools in >> my >>> plugin set. (I've added a plugin to make changing lyric numbers really >>> easy.) >>> 2. Staff baselines don't get transferred. I've added a plugin to do that. >>> (You'll have to manually set the doc-level baselines to match.) >>> 3. Staff styles are transferred incorrectly. I had to remove and reapply >>> them on the merged score. >>> 4. You may have to mess with staff groups. I've added some functions to >>> help with that. (But if the groups match in all files there does not >> appear >>> to be a problem.) >>> 5. You may have to edit with multipage headers like page numbers and >>> measure number regions. >>> >>> Still, I've managed to do it with results I am happy with. ymmv >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 7:24 AM, Robert Patterson < >>> rob...@robertgpatterson.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Because collating and processing are what computers are for. I'd rather >>>> spend my time writing a program to massage the files than constantly >>>> collating and processing by hand. Which is what I've done. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 1:41 AM, Steve Parker <st...@pinkrat.co.uk> >> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Robert, >>>>> >>>>>> On 12 Dec 2016, at 20:24, Robert Patterson < >> rob...@robertgpatterson.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I refuse to do post processing with a pdf editor. I would be willing >> to >>>>>> simply combine pdf's output by Finale, but any further post-processing >>>>> than >>>>>> that is unacceptable to me. >>>>> >>>>> Not to start one… but why? >>>>> I’ve always collated these kind of things outside Finale. >>>>> >>>>> Steve P. >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
