I own Acrobat, so I'm not looking for a new PDF driver, but your observation about file sizes is interesting. Finale appears to be using PDF XChange, which is a fairly well known solution. It may be that Finale is not using the most compact settings, and they don't expose any of that for users to tweak.
Thanks, Aaron. On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 5:54 AM, Lee Actor <l...@leeactor.com> wrote: > Whenever the built-in Finale pdf exporter is mentioned, I feel obligated to > point out that a) it has serious bugs, printing unwanted characters in > unexpected locations, esp. on pages with tuplets; and b) it produces > enormous file sizes, up to 10x other print-to-pdf solutions. The pdf > export > is from a 3rd party developer, Makemusic knows it's broken, and they > continue to include it in Finale anyway. > > The pdf printer I always recommend for Windows is Bullzip. It's extremely > stable, very fast, and produces the smallest file sizes of any such product > I've surveyed -- and I've tried pretty much all of them. > > -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 > Aaron Sherber > Sent: Sunday, April 1, 2018 5:30 PM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: [Finale] Exporting parts to PDF > > Hi all, > > I just took advantage of the sale at MM to upgrade to Fin25, and I'm > exploring some of the new features. (And wondering why they haven't > improved > the UI in 5 years, but that's a different issue.) > > I noticed the new Export to PDF feature, which is quicker and easier than > printing to a PDF driver, but I was dismayed to find that it only exports > the current part or score. Did they really not implement an Export Linked > Parts to PDF feature, as they did with Export Linked Parts to MusicXML? Is > there a plugin or FinaleScript that will provide this functionality? > > Thanks, > Aaron. > _______________________________________________ > 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
