Re: [Finale] WinFin2006 PDF
I never got a response to this question from last week so I am asking again: In FinWin2006 has the staff percentage bug been fixed? This occurs when a staff is reduced from 100%. When expressions are dragged they do not stay with the cursor but lag behind in proportion to the amount of reduction. Also, the automatic placement of articulations is affected in the same way: the farther from the middle of the staff that an articulation is placed (when defined to be placed at the cursor location), the farther its vertical displacement is from the cursor. In much of my work this makes for a tremendous amount of nudging. Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] WinFin2006 PDF
Kurt Gnos écrit: no problems with PDFs here (WinFin2006c). Do you mean when you display a whole page? This will depend on your screen resolution (1600x1200 here). My PDFs or ok to look, if I enlarge them the staff lines are fine, and printing them is no problem and looking fine. I guess if you have a smaller display resolution the lines might be uglier, but this is a mathematical problem - the lower the resolution the uglier the lines, I think. I don't see how Adobe could get that better, I should think it either gets a 0 or an 1 when interpreting the image information, and even if PDFs got some special screen preview as EPS, there is no garantee to get them right on the screen. Compare a PDF of the same Finale file produced on a Mac and on a PC, and you'll immediately see what we mean by ugly output on screen. The fact remains that Mac-generated PDFs look much better. This shouldn't be a problem even at low resolution. There's no reason why all staff lines shouldn't be identical on the screen. Dennis Last time we looked at this issue we discovered that Finale Windows generated PDF files had staff lines that were composed of very thin lines, that is to say something like 10 very skinny lines per staff line. That was the difference between the Mac and Windows PDF files, and the display problem is likely the result of all the very closely knit clustering. It would be interesting to get an official response as to why this is the case. -- Simon Troup Digital Music Art ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] WinFin2006 PDF
Now that the EPS problem seems to be sorted out Is that true? I have not upgraded from 2005 (and won't until some bugs are corrected - including the EPS one). Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] WinFin2006 PDF
Now that the EPS problem seems to be sorted out Is that true? I have not upgraded from 2005 (and won't until some bugs are corrected - including the EPS one). Yes, EPS export is finally working on Windows. I'm able to open Finale EPS files in Illustrator 10 when I do an export from 2006b on my Windows XP SP2 system. Another nice, underhyped bug fix in 2006b is that smart shape dashed lines are now WYSIWYG. They no longer end in different places on the page and on screen, and they always end at the same place on screen no matter the zoom percentage. I haven't seen any change to the on-screen appearance of PDF staff lines, though. Michael ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] WinFin2006 PDF
Yes, EPS export is finally working on Windows. I'm able to open Finale EPS files in Illustrator 10 when I do an export from 2006b on my Windows XP SP2 system. I am surprised that there was not more hoopla here about that. What about the staff percentage bug? (the one where dragging of expressions and the placement of articulations and is out of sync with the cursor in proportion to the size of the reduction. If that is fixed then I will be happy once again and upgrade. Richard ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] WinFin2006 PDF
Michael, no problems with PDFs here (WinFin2006c). Do you mean when you display a whole page? This will depend on your screen resolution (1600x1200 here). My PDFs or ok to look, if I enlarge them the staff lines are fine, and printing them is no problem and looking fine. I guess if you have a smaller display resolution the lines might be uglier, but this is a mathematical problem - the lower the resolution the uglier the lines, I think. I don't see how Adobe could get that better, I should think it either gets a 0 or an 1 when interpreting the image information, and even if PDFs got some special screen preview as EPS, there is no garantee to get them right on the screen. Kurt At 21:51 15.01.2006, you wrote: I haven't seen any change to the on-screen appearance of PDF staff lines, though. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
