Re: [Finale] Finale, EPS and PDF - Important addition

2003-10-18 Thread Richard Yates
Hi Mike,

An update: In FinWin2004a I replaced Maestro with Petrucci, had only the PS
version of Petrucci anywhere on my system, selected the latest Adobe Generic
Printer driver, and exported EPS without preview or fonts. GSview 4.3 still
complains a few times about bounding box dimensions and page numbers before
opening the files but they look fine when it finally does. My publisher is
on a Mac and has all of the fonts installed. She could open the files and
everything worked perfectly.

It seems clear that the problem with Fin2004 and EPS is in the Maestro font.
Can you send me the version of Maestro that you made by opening and saving
it in Fontlab? Thanks.

Richard



Mike Cholewa wrote:
 Hi Richard

 Now you should have a chance of making an pdf file that your
 publisher can read (with the fonts included).

 Mike Cholewa


 -Original Message-
 From: Richard Yates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:02 AM
 To: Mike Cholewa
 Subject: Re: [Finale] Finale, EPS and PDF - Important addition

 Hi Mike,

 I have made a little progress. I made a file that has only ps fonts
 in it (November is the music font, Garamand is the rest). An EPS
 (without fonts) export of a section opens okay in Photoshop Elements
 and in GSView4.3.

 You are right that GSView reads the ps fonts from the c\psfonts
 folder and Photoshop reads them from the c\windows\fonts folder.

 I don't have any way to test the ps file on another machine or a ps
 printer,
 though. The inability to include the fonts in the file is a real
 limitation.
 I still cannot send ps files to my publisher (who is on a Mac
 anyway) and has not paid the bucks for November and has only the
 Maestro font.

 Richard


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RE: [Finale] Finale, EPS and PDF - Final fix for eps export in WinXP (?)

2003-09-30 Thread Mike Cholewa
Your suggestion is fine. But the reason why eps don't work in winxp is a
font problem! 
After Kurt Gnos last respond I was curious why my fix didn't work for him
and it worked for me. I tried with my normal music font (Susato) and all was
fine, then with some Finale fonts (Maestro, Petrucci) and the fonts wouldn't
embed. I remembered I once had to do a little adjustment to this font when I
switched to WinXP.

And now to the font fix:

Open a music font in Fontlab and save it. That's all. No changes, nothing
more. That will fix the eps export problem for Finale in WinXp! This is
tested with Postscript type 1 font.

Mike Cholewa

PS. If anybody would like to try this just send a mail. I have 1mb zip file
with Finale type 1 fonts that should work in WinXp.
PPS. With this font fix you don't even have to use my Illustrator fix! Eps
export works as it should.

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
 Of Richard Yates
 Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:23 AM
 To: 'Finale list'
 Subject: Re: [Finale] Finale, EPS and PDF
 
 I have no use for EPS but found just now that this works:
 
 Save the page as pdf using Distiller.
 Open in Acrobat.
 Crop to the selection that you want in Acrobat.
 Export as EPS.
 
 This seems to import okay into Word, but I cannot test printout as I have
 no
 ps printer.
 
 Also,  a disadvantage is that cropping in Acrobat does not change (reduce)
 the file size.
 
 Richard Yates
 
 
 
 
 Kurt Gnos wrote:
  Thanks Mike,
 
  I remembered this (and found the old e-mail) - but: Still won't work
  for me, and I tried, yes I tried. I tried three different PS drivers
  (including adobe generic), different settings, different fonts, but
  a) when I embed them in Finale, nothing works
  b) without embedding, the file works, but without noteheads; in
  Illustrator I can exchange fonts, but the notehead fonts won't show
  up in Maestro.
 
  BUT I have found a working, if somewhat tedius workaround:
 
  In Finale, instead of exporting via graphics tool (which would be a
  LOT easier) I change page size (as some decades ago) until I have
  the snippet I would like to export on this page.
  Than I print it to acrobat 6
  In Acrobat 6 I export it as EPS (you can even include a preview by
  changing the export settings)
  And - seems to work (knock on wood).
 
  Also meens, instead of 30 seconds I will need some minutes, but
  anyway, better than nothing.
 
  and yes, you will have to get acrobat for the workaround...
 
  Tell me if you find something better; at the moment I am happy to
  have found some kind of temporal solution
 
  cheers
 
  Kurt
 
  At 20:06 29.09.2003 +0200, Mike Cholewa wrote:
  Here is my workaround that I used in a newly finished project that
  included eps graphic exported from Finale 2003 in WinXP. I had to
  deliver the final result in pdf. Besides Finwin 2003a I used
  Illustrator 10, Acrobat 6 and Postscript fonts only, no use of ATM.
  I have posted this earlier on the list and checked that the same
  things apply to Finale 2004:
 
  The following is a description of a successful use of
  eps in WinXP. (This was posted earlier on the Finale Forza-talk
  list.)
 
  It's a known fact that eps export doesn't work as it should in the
  Finale-WinXp combination. However I have found a way which makes
  this work - although there is a little glitch. After exporting the
  eps graphic from Finale (do not include fonts and preview) import
  this file in Illustrator (Adobe) and save it as an Illustrator eps
  file (version 3.0/3.2). This will include fonts for further Acrobat
  handling. The glitch is that I have found that a few chord symbols
  are badly aligned. But this is easily fixed in Illustrator.
 
  Mike Cholewa
 
  Btw. MakeMusic states that Import and export of EPS files
  supported under Windows 98, NT 4.0 and ME only. See the Finale
  2004 Upgrade Brochure
  (http://downloads.makemusic.com/dealers/finale/f2k4upgrade-mailer.pdf)
  page
  19.
 
 
  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
  Behalf Of Kurt Gnos
  Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 6:23 PM
  To: Finale list
  Subject: [Finale] Finale, EPS and PDF
 
  Yesterday I tried again to get Finale 2004 (WinXP) to produce EPS
  or PDF files to import in Quark XPress. I don't want to use pixel
  formats (TIFF), because I want the output scalable.
 
  First I tried EPS, using different settings and PS drivers. I only
  got stems without noteheads, keys etc. This also happened when I
  tried to print
  a file on my PS printer. And, funny, after I deinstalled the
  maestro PS font (using Adobe Type Manager), the fonts where there.
 
  Anyway Finale seems not to be able to embed fonts correctly,
  Ghostscript for example shows lots of bugs and cannot even open a
  Finale EPS file with embedded fonts.
 
  So I thought about PDF. It's less confortable, but I can change
  the page size in Finale until I only have the part I want

Re: [Finale] Finale, EPS and PDF - Final fix for eps export in WinXP (?)

2003-09-30 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 03:24  AM, Mike Cholewa wrote:

Open a music font in Fontlab and save it. That's all.
[snip]
PS. If anybody would like to try this just send a mail. I have 1mb zip 
file with Finale type 1 fonts that should work in WinXp.
Mike sent me this file, but it still didn't work for me.  I'm guessing 
that it may have something to do with my PostScript driver.  I have the 
Adobe Generic Postscript driver installed, and when I either export EPS 
or compile postscript listing I can't view the output in GSView 
properly.

Maybe I'm just using too much free stuff? :)

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Re: [Finale] Finale, EPS and PDF

2003-09-30 Thread Kurt Gnos
Richard,

works for me, too, more or less. First, its somewhat faster to crop the 
thing in Acrobat instead of Finale, anyway, more intuitive.
Funny my print results from QuarkXpress:
The file without preview printet fine on my HP 2100M PS printer
The file including preview got not printed - error (offending command)

However exporting PDF showed both EPS fine, so you can always export as PDF 
and print the PDF afterwards. Since I need the PDF anyway this is a working 
workaround for me.

That does not mean I would not be happier if everything woked as it 
should...;-)

Kurt

At 19:23 29.09.2003 -0700, Richard Yates wrote:
I have no use for EPS but found just now that this works:

Save the page as pdf using Distiller.
Open in Acrobat.
Crop to the selection that you want in Acrobat.
Export as EPS.
This seems to import okay into Word, but I cannot test printout as I have no
ps printer.
Also,  a disadvantage is that cropping in Acrobat does not change (reduce)
the file size.
Richard Yates



Kurt Gnos wrote:
 Thanks Mike,

 I remembered this (and found the old e-mail) - but: Still won't work
 for me, and I tried, yes I tried. I tried three different PS drivers
 (including adobe generic), different settings, different fonts, but
 a) when I embed them in Finale, nothing works
 b) without embedding, the file works, but without noteheads; in
 Illustrator I can exchange fonts, but the notehead fonts won't show
 up in Maestro.

 BUT I have found a working, if somewhat tedius workaround:

 In Finale, instead of exporting via graphics tool (which would be a
 LOT easier) I change page size (as some decades ago) until I have
 the snippet I would like to export on this page.
 Than I print it to acrobat 6
 In Acrobat 6 I export it as EPS (you can even include a preview by
 changing the export settings)
 And - seems to work (knock on wood).

 Also meens, instead of 30 seconds I will need some minutes, but
 anyway, better than nothing.

 and yes, you will have to get acrobat for the workaround...

 Tell me if you find something better; at the moment I am happy to
 have found some kind of temporal solution

 cheers

 Kurt

 At 20:06 29.09.2003 +0200, Mike Cholewa wrote:
 Here is my workaround that I used in a newly finished project that
 included eps graphic exported from Finale 2003 in WinXP. I had to
 deliver the final result in pdf. Besides Finwin 2003a I used
 Illustrator 10, Acrobat 6 and Postscript fonts only, no use of ATM.
 I have posted this earlier on the list and checked that the same
 things apply to Finale 2004:

 The following is a description of a successful use of
 eps in WinXP. (This was posted earlier on the Finale Forza-talk
 list.)

 It's a known fact that eps export doesn't work as it should in the
 Finale-WinXp combination. However I have found a way which makes
 this work - although there is a little glitch. After exporting the
 eps graphic from Finale (do not include fonts and preview) import
 this file in Illustrator (Adobe) and save it as an Illustrator eps
 file (version 3.0/3.2). This will include fonts for further Acrobat
 handling. The glitch is that I have found that a few chord symbols
 are badly aligned. But this is easily fixed in Illustrator.

 Mike Cholewa

 Btw. MakeMusic states that Import and export of EPS files
 supported under Windows 98, NT 4.0 and ME only. See the Finale
 2004 Upgrade Brochure
 (http://downloads.makemusic.com/dealers/finale/f2k4upgrade-mailer.pdf)
 page
 19.


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of Kurt Gnos
 Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 6:23 PM
 To: Finale list
 Subject: [Finale] Finale, EPS and PDF

 Yesterday I tried again to get Finale 2004 (WinXP) to produce EPS
 or PDF files to import in Quark XPress. I don't want to use pixel
 formats (TIFF), because I want the output scalable.

 First I tried EPS, using different settings and PS drivers. I only
 got stems without noteheads, keys etc. This also happened when I
 tried to print
 a file on my PS printer. And, funny, after I deinstalled the
 maestro PS font (using Adobe Type Manager), the fonts where there.

 Anyway Finale seems not to be able to embed fonts correctly,
 Ghostscript for example shows lots of bugs and cannot even open a
 Finale EPS file with embedded fonts.

 So I thought about PDF. It's less confortable, but I can change
 the page size in Finale until I only have the part I want to
 export on my page and save this page as PDF.

 I also can Import the file into QuarkXpress (Version 6, also
 acrobat pro 6). However the file looks quite ugly on screen, but
 this may be a problem of my not being very experienced in Quark
 Xpress. HOWEVER, when I now printed the Quark Xpress File - the
 noteheads had vanished again.

 So this is serious and very annoying - is there no way to get a
 scalable vector output out of Finale, even with lots of
 workarounds? Or is there?

 Kurt



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RE: [Finale] Finale, EPS and PDF - Final fix for eps export in WinXP(?)

2003-09-30 Thread Mike Cholewa
A little report:
I have now successfully converted a Finale2004 eps file into a pdf using
GSview (Gostscript 8.11 and Gsview 4.42beta). I had a couple error messages
about the bounding box, but I didn't find any differences in accepting or
ignoring these messages.
I must say that now all the graphic eps exports from Finale (on my computer)
work with Word, the Adobe line of products (Acrobat, Illustrator, Indesign,
and PageMaker), and GSview.
I do not include preview and (definitely not fonts!) in Finale. I have as
said used GSview and when I open this pdf in Acrobat the fonts are properly
displayed and embedded.

I have experimented on using different postscript drivers when generating
eps graphic such as Adobe generic postscript driver, the driver for my
Brother Postscript printer, and even Acrobat distiller (not printing to it
but using it as postscript driver in the Finale printer setup). This didn't
make any difference.

All my postscript fonts are installed in the \WINDOWS\Fonts folder.

As I recall I formerly have had problems with eps export in WinXP.
Especially Acrobat 5 rejected the eps files (offending commands/lines). With
Acrobat 6 this is not the case. :-) The font embedment which doesn't work
with the fonts distributed with Finale is solved (on my computer) with the
new fonts I have generated.

(I have always suspected the postscript implementation in WinXP for screwing
this up and in case of the Susato music font I had to generate a new version
as the spacing/kerning of some characters didn't work properly in WinXP.)

Any kind of feedback on this issue is welcome.

Mike Cholewa


  I have 1mb zip
  file with Finale type 1 fonts that should work in WinXp.
 
 Mike sent me this file, but it still didn't work for me.  I'm guessing
 that it may have something to do with my PostScript driver.  I have the
 Adobe Generic Postscript driver installed, and when I either export EPS
 or compile postscript listing I can't view the output in GSView
 properly.
 
 Maybe I'm just using too much free stuff? :)
 
 -
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[Finale] Finale, EPS and PDF

2003-09-29 Thread Kurt Gnos
Yesterday I tried again to get Finale 2004 (WinXP) to produce EPS or PDF 
files to import in Quark XPress. I don't want to use pixel formats (TIFF), 
because I want the output scalable.

First I tried EPS, using different settings and PS drivers. I only got 
stems without noteheads, keys etc. This also happened when I tried to print 
a file on my PS printer. And, funny, after I deinstalled the maestro PS 
font (using Adobe Type Manager), the fonts where there.

Anyway Finale seems not to be able to embed fonts correctly, Ghostscript 
for example shows lots of bugs and cannot even open a Finale EPS file with 
embedded fonts.

So I thought about PDF. It's less confortable, but I can change the page 
size in Finale until I only have the part I want to export on my page and 
save this page as PDF.

I also can Import the file into QuarkXpress (Version 6, also acrobat pro 
6). However the file looks quite ugly on screen, but this may be a problem 
of my not being very experienced in Quark Xpress.
HOWEVER, when I now printed the Quark Xpress File - the noteheads had 
vanished again.

So this is serious and very annoying - is there no way to get a scalable 
vector output out of Finale, even with lots of workarounds? Or is there?

Kurt



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RE: [Finale] Finale, EPS and PDF

2003-09-29 Thread Mike Cholewa
Here is my workaround that I used in a newly finished project that included
eps graphic exported from Finale 2003 in WinXP. I had to deliver the final
result in pdf. Besides Finwin 2003a I used Illustrator 10, Acrobat 6 and
Postscript fonts only, no use of ATM. I have posted this earlier on the list
and checked that the same things apply to Finale 2004:

The following is a description of a successful use of
eps in WinXP. (This was posted earlier on the Finale Forza-talk list.)

It's a known fact that eps export doesn't work as it should in the
Finale-WinXp combination. However I have found a way which makes this work -
although there is a little glitch. After exporting the eps graphic from
Finale (do not include fonts and preview) import this file in Illustrator
(Adobe) and save it as an Illustrator eps file (version 3.0/3.2). This will
include fonts for further Acrobat handling. The glitch is that I have found
that a few chord symbols are badly aligned. But this is easily fixed in
Illustrator.

Mike Cholewa

Btw. MakeMusic states that Import and export of EPS files supported under
Windows 98, NT 4.0 and ME only. See the Finale 2004 Upgrade Brochure
(http://downloads.makemusic.com/dealers/finale/f2k4upgrade-mailer.pdf) page
19.


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
 Of Kurt Gnos
 Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 6:23 PM
 To: Finale list
 Subject: [Finale] Finale, EPS and PDF
 
 Yesterday I tried again to get Finale 2004 (WinXP) to produce EPS or PDF
 files to import in Quark XPress. I don't want to use pixel formats (TIFF),
 because I want the output scalable.
 
 First I tried EPS, using different settings and PS drivers. I only got
 stems without noteheads, keys etc. This also happened when I tried to
 print
 a file on my PS printer. And, funny, after I deinstalled the maestro PS
 font (using Adobe Type Manager), the fonts where there.
 
 Anyway Finale seems not to be able to embed fonts correctly, Ghostscript
 for example shows lots of bugs and cannot even open a Finale EPS file with
 embedded fonts.
 
 So I thought about PDF. It's less confortable, but I can change the page
 size in Finale until I only have the part I want to export on my page and
 save this page as PDF.
 
 I also can Import the file into QuarkXpress (Version 6, also acrobat pro
 6). However the file looks quite ugly on screen, but this may be a problem
 of my not being very experienced in Quark Xpress.
 HOWEVER, when I now printed the Quark Xpress File - the noteheads had
 vanished again.
 
 So this is serious and very annoying - is there no way to get a scalable
 vector output out of Finale, even with lots of workarounds? Or is there?
 
 Kurt
 
 
 
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RE: [Finale] Finale, EPS and PDF

2003-09-29 Thread Kurt Gnos
Thanks Mike,

I remembered this (and found the old e-mail) - but: Still won't work for 
me, and I tried, yes I tried. I tried three different PS drivers (including 
adobe generic), different settings, different fonts, but
a) when I embed them in Finale, nothing works
b) without embedding, the file works, but without noteheads; in Illustrator 
I can exchange fonts, but the notehead fonts won't show up in Maestro.

BUT I have found a working, if somewhat tedius workaround:

In Finale, instead of exporting via graphics tool (which would be a LOT 
easier) I change page size (as some decades ago) until I have the snippet I 
would like to export on this page.
Than I print it to acrobat 6
In Acrobat 6 I export it as EPS (you can even include a preview by changing 
the export settings)
And - seems to work (knock on wood).

Also meens, instead of 30 seconds I will need some minutes, but anyway, 
better than nothing.

and yes, you will have to get acrobat for the workaround...

Tell me if you find something better; at the moment I am happy to have 
found some kind of temporal solution

cheers

Kurt

At 20:06 29.09.2003 +0200, Mike Cholewa wrote:
Here is my workaround that I used in a newly finished project that included
eps graphic exported from Finale 2003 in WinXP. I had to deliver the final
result in pdf. Besides Finwin 2003a I used Illustrator 10, Acrobat 6 and
Postscript fonts only, no use of ATM. I have posted this earlier on the list
and checked that the same things apply to Finale 2004:
The following is a description of a successful use of
eps in WinXP. (This was posted earlier on the Finale Forza-talk list.)
It's a known fact that eps export doesn't work as it should in the
Finale-WinXp combination. However I have found a way which makes this work -
although there is a little glitch. After exporting the eps graphic from
Finale (do not include fonts and preview) import this file in Illustrator
(Adobe) and save it as an Illustrator eps file (version 3.0/3.2). This will
include fonts for further Acrobat handling. The glitch is that I have found
that a few chord symbols are badly aligned. But this is easily fixed in
Illustrator.
Mike Cholewa

Btw. MakeMusic states that Import and export of EPS files supported under
Windows 98, NT 4.0 and ME only. See the Finale 2004 Upgrade Brochure
(http://downloads.makemusic.com/dealers/finale/f2k4upgrade-mailer.pdf) page
19.
 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
 Of Kurt Gnos
 Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 6:23 PM
 To: Finale list
 Subject: [Finale] Finale, EPS and PDF

 Yesterday I tried again to get Finale 2004 (WinXP) to produce EPS or PDF
 files to import in Quark XPress. I don't want to use pixel formats (TIFF),
 because I want the output scalable.

 First I tried EPS, using different settings and PS drivers. I only got
 stems without noteheads, keys etc. This also happened when I tried to
 print
 a file on my PS printer. And, funny, after I deinstalled the maestro PS
 font (using Adobe Type Manager), the fonts where there.

 Anyway Finale seems not to be able to embed fonts correctly, Ghostscript
 for example shows lots of bugs and cannot even open a Finale EPS file with
 embedded fonts.

 So I thought about PDF. It's less confortable, but I can change the page
 size in Finale until I only have the part I want to export on my page and
 save this page as PDF.

 I also can Import the file into QuarkXpress (Version 6, also acrobat pro
 6). However the file looks quite ugly on screen, but this may be a problem
 of my not being very experienced in Quark Xpress.
 HOWEVER, when I now printed the Quark Xpress File - the noteheads had
 vanished again.

 So this is serious and very annoying - is there no way to get a scalable
 vector output out of Finale, even with lots of workarounds? Or is there?

 Kurt



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Re: [Finale] Finale, EPS and PDF

2003-09-29 Thread Richard Yates
I have no use for EPS but found just now that this works:

Save the page as pdf using Distiller.
Open in Acrobat.
Crop to the selection that you want in Acrobat.
Export as EPS.

This seems to import okay into Word, but I cannot test printout as I have no
ps printer.

Also,  a disadvantage is that cropping in Acrobat does not change (reduce)
the file size.

Richard Yates




Kurt Gnos wrote:
 Thanks Mike,

 I remembered this (and found the old e-mail) - but: Still won't work
 for me, and I tried, yes I tried. I tried three different PS drivers
 (including adobe generic), different settings, different fonts, but
 a) when I embed them in Finale, nothing works
 b) without embedding, the file works, but without noteheads; in
 Illustrator I can exchange fonts, but the notehead fonts won't show
 up in Maestro.

 BUT I have found a working, if somewhat tedius workaround:

 In Finale, instead of exporting via graphics tool (which would be a
 LOT easier) I change page size (as some decades ago) until I have
 the snippet I would like to export on this page.
 Than I print it to acrobat 6
 In Acrobat 6 I export it as EPS (you can even include a preview by
 changing the export settings)
 And - seems to work (knock on wood).

 Also meens, instead of 30 seconds I will need some minutes, but
 anyway, better than nothing.

 and yes, you will have to get acrobat for the workaround...

 Tell me if you find something better; at the moment I am happy to
 have found some kind of temporal solution

 cheers

 Kurt

 At 20:06 29.09.2003 +0200, Mike Cholewa wrote:
 Here is my workaround that I used in a newly finished project that
 included eps graphic exported from Finale 2003 in WinXP. I had to
 deliver the final result in pdf. Besides Finwin 2003a I used
 Illustrator 10, Acrobat 6 and Postscript fonts only, no use of ATM.
 I have posted this earlier on the list and checked that the same
 things apply to Finale 2004:

 The following is a description of a successful use of
 eps in WinXP. (This was posted earlier on the Finale Forza-talk
 list.)

 It's a known fact that eps export doesn't work as it should in the
 Finale-WinXp combination. However I have found a way which makes
 this work - although there is a little glitch. After exporting the
 eps graphic from Finale (do not include fonts and preview) import
 this file in Illustrator (Adobe) and save it as an Illustrator eps
 file (version 3.0/3.2). This will include fonts for further Acrobat
 handling. The glitch is that I have found that a few chord symbols
 are badly aligned. But this is easily fixed in Illustrator.

 Mike Cholewa

 Btw. MakeMusic states that Import and export of EPS files
 supported under Windows 98, NT 4.0 and ME only. See the Finale
 2004 Upgrade Brochure
 (http://downloads.makemusic.com/dealers/finale/f2k4upgrade-mailer.pdf)
 page
 19.


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of Kurt Gnos
 Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 6:23 PM
 To: Finale list
 Subject: [Finale] Finale, EPS and PDF

 Yesterday I tried again to get Finale 2004 (WinXP) to produce EPS
 or PDF files to import in Quark XPress. I don't want to use pixel
 formats (TIFF), because I want the output scalable.

 First I tried EPS, using different settings and PS drivers. I only
 got stems without noteheads, keys etc. This also happened when I
 tried to print
 a file on my PS printer. And, funny, after I deinstalled the
 maestro PS font (using Adobe Type Manager), the fonts where there.

 Anyway Finale seems not to be able to embed fonts correctly,
 Ghostscript for example shows lots of bugs and cannot even open a
 Finale EPS file with embedded fonts.

 So I thought about PDF. It's less confortable, but I can change
 the page size in Finale until I only have the part I want to
 export on my page and save this page as PDF.

 I also can Import the file into QuarkXpress (Version 6, also
 acrobat pro 6). However the file looks quite ugly on screen, but
 this may be a problem of my not being very experienced in Quark
 Xpress. HOWEVER, when I now printed the Quark Xpress File - the
 noteheads had vanished again.

 So this is serious and very annoying - is there no way to get a
 scalable vector output out of Finale, even with lots of
 workarounds? Or is there?

 Kurt



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