Re: [Finale] OT: What to look for in a TFT monitor?
At 3:55 PM -0400 5/1/05, David W. Fenton wrote: If I can get monitor calibration software so that we can get scans of white/beige/cream colors that don't have a red hue, then that will solve the client's problem. David -- (I missed the start of this discussion so I don't know your exact requirements.) If you need to profile monitors under XP you might want to look at this product. http://www.chromix.com/colorgear/shop/productdetail.cxsa?toolid=1119-session=tx:445B0DA80c41d02738jwhY785E2C I've used the Eye-One Display (Not 2) and recommend it with some reservations. According to people I respect, the Eye-One Display 2 is greatly improved and probably one of the best monitor profilers available. Note that the Eye-One Display is a colorimeter and not a spectrophotometer. There are those who say a colorimeter is better than a spectrophotometer for profiling displays, and there are those who disagree. The arguments are highly technical, and may be a case of both sides being right, depending on the situation. Spectrophotometers are however _much_ more expensive than colorimeters. Regardless, a colorimeter like the Eye-One Display 2 is designed to only measure emissive targets so, for all practical purposes, it can only profile a monitor. The manufacturer is here: http://www.gretagmacbeth.com/pc/index.htm, but the guys at Chromix are a pleasure to work with, and can talk you through almost anything if you do a little research before calling them. If you also need to profile the scanner you will either need a spectrophotometer, like the Eye-One Pro, and an appropriate software package (for example: http://www.chromix.com/colorgear/shop/productdetail.cxsa?toolid=1131-session=tx:445B0DA80c41d02738jwhY785E2C ), or a program that allows you to scan a calibrated target and then profiles the scanner based on that scan. SiverFast Ai (http://www.silverfast.com/show/silverfast/en.html) will let you do that, but I believe it is Mac only. I don't know about similar programs for the PC, but I know that there are some. Hope this helps, -=-Dennis . ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] UK non-standard paper supplies
Does anybody know of a source in the UK for paper in sizes suitable for parts medium-sized scores? (I'm thinking perhaps B4 size, or B3 for saddle stitching?) Thanks Owain ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] File overwrite bug
What are the don'ts with the File overwrite bug (2k5b, Mac). I don't often work with several files open at once, and have avoided it when the bug was made known, but now I want to edit some parts and could save some time if they were open at the same time, is this risky? Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] TAN: treble clef in 18th century cello parts
I just want to make sure that I haven't missed a vital piece of information: Can I generally assume that a treble clef in 18th century cello parts means an octave down, or are there exceptions from the rule which are more than simple misprints or forgotten 8va? Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] TAN: treble clef in 18th century cello parts
Johannes: I just want to make sure that I haven't missed a vital piece of information: Can I generally assume that a treble clef in 18th century cello parts means an octave down, or are there exceptions from the rule which are more than simple misprints or forgotten 8va? Me: It's been my experience that its a pretty hard-and-fast rule/convention until the 19th century (when it gets fuzzy) and the 20th (where it mostly disappears). I don't know of any standard exceptions, but I always make it my business to look at the context just to be sure. Similar to the issue of horn parts in bass clef. ng ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] TAN: treble clef in 18th century cello parts
To be honest, I have rarely seen tenor clefs in late 18th century cello parts, and there is no special reason for using treble clefs, it is just a very normal way of notating high cello passages in classical/early romantic music. It's not notated as 8va or 8vb, but as far as I know it is always read an octave down. I just want to make sure this is the case. d. collins schrieb: Johannes Gebauer écrit: I just want to make sure that I haven't missed a vital piece of information: Can I generally assume that a treble clef in 18th century cello parts means an octave down, or are there exceptions from the rule which are more than simple misprints or forgotten 8va? I always thought this was a fairly recent convention. The 8va treble clef and the tenor clef (C4) cover almost the same register. So what would be the reason for using 8va treble clef at a time where the C-clefs were still widely used? Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Re Tiger Finale
Has anyone discovered what Tiger keyboard shortcut is interfering with the scroll view/page view toggling shortcut in Finale (and how to disable the Tiger shortcut)? I assume that is the reason that this familiar shortcut does not work in Tiger. Thanks, Chuck ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] div wind parts
At 3:34 PM +0200 5/2/05, Johannes Gebauer wrote: I think we discussed this recently, but I have forgotten the outcome and need some advice now: I am preparing some orchestral parts. In the wind parts, for about 95% the two flutes play identical music, but very occasionally they devide into two. The decision has been made to only do one part for both flutes. When they go divisi, should they be notated in one or two systems? Is it ok to have them in one system (would save a page turn)? If they're essentially homophonic, one staff should work. If they have independent rhythms, two staves is much safer. John -- John Susie Howell Virginia Tech Department of Music Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] div wind parts
At 10:34 AM 5/2/05 -0400, John Howell wrote: If they're essentially homophonic, one staff should work. If they have independent rhythms, two staves is much safer. I just got my wrist slapped over this from the conductor of a professional orchestra who said they never read wind parts from a single staff -- always separate parts. Strings, fine. Anyone else, no. So they had to be done completely over. Lesson learned, at least for me, considering how much trouble it is to create parts! Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] div wind parts
This seems a bit extreme. The conductor was describing best practice, but professional wind players routines work from combined parts, on one staff or two. Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: I just got my wrist slapped over this from the conductor of a professional orchestra who said they never read wind parts from a single staff -- always separate parts. Strings, fine. Anyone else, no. So they had to be done completely over. Lesson learned, at least for me, considering how much trouble it is to create parts! Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale -- Robert Patterson http://RobertGPatterson.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] div wind parts
We see wind parts on one line fairly often. We don't like them in new music, especially if there is complexity involved and Finale skills could have fixed it, but we deal with it and play it. But, if it's EASY to read and saves a page turn - no real problem, I would say. The only time we would not play a piece was a new symphony that had four part divisis in all the strings - with crossing glissandi, etc., all in one staff. Totally unreadable. We told the composer, his only response was to come back the next day with enlarged pages! We omitted the offending two middle movements and premiered the two outer movements. The composer (a college prof returning to his hometown - had a bunch of family there and all) seemed crushed. It was a shame, because a few hours work at the computer keyboard could have saved the premiere for him. If you ever combine a part (I've only left some combined when I've had to race to get the music on the stands before the second hand hits the start of rehearsal time, which is, perhaps, not the optimal situation) make sure you combine in standard pairs. I always have a chuckle whenever we get a part with 2nd and 3rd trb on one line (usually some old march, polka or something on a pops concert). Try as he might, our 2nd trombonist can't seem to remember to play the top part - he's so used to playing the bottom part on a combined 1st and 2nd trb part. Invariably, he'll start playing the lower part. The easiest thing for me to do is to just play 2nd and not say anything about it. Raymond Horton Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 10:34 AM 5/2/05 -0400, John Howell wrote: If they're essentially homophonic, one staff should work. If they have independent rhythms, two staves is much safer. I just got my wrist slapped over this from the conductor of a professional orchestra who said they never read wind parts from a single staff -- always separate parts. Strings, fine. Anyone else, no. So they had to be done completely over. Lesson learned, at least for me, considering how much trouble it is to create parts! Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] File overwrite bug
On May 2, 2005, at 9:09 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: What are the don'ts with the File overwrite bug (2k5b, Mac). I don't often work with several files open at once, and have avoided it when the bug was made known, but now I want to edit some parts and could save some time if they were open at the same time, is this risky? Johannes It has only occurred with me when working on a score file created in a previous version. Not everyone shares this, though. It has also only occurred with me when I open another file by double-clicking while working on all the part files, for example let's say I just realised that I made a mistake in the horn part I already formatted and printed while a trombone part is open, so I reopen the horn part, correct the mistake, save, print, and close. The trombone part is likely to be the one corrupted in this case, though a few times it has been my score. Text block edits seem to trigger it, though I can't figure out how. Sometimes Finale bugs out after a overwrite (keys stop working, etc.), and I have to quit and restart Finale. This makes some think that it might be related to Finale being already in a delicate condition, perhaps related to temp files. I also leave my computer on a lot (in sleep mode, of course), with Finale running, and used to seldom reboot. This may also contribute to it. For sure, if the window title doesn't match the contents of the window, the bug has occurred. Save under a different file name immediately, and you may have saved yourself. I have managed this a few times. Apparently, according to Darcy, if you have backups enabled the backup is not corrupted. One of the Davids (Fenton?) mentioned that he had seen mismatched window title and contents a few times, but a redraw or switching from page to scroll view and back corrected it. This was on Windows, while Darcy and I are Mac. Did I remember Brad B. having this, too, on Mac? Recently I have changed my part-extraction method to avoid text-block edits (I insert a comment for the instrument name on Page I and the Page 2+ text block before extracting parts, then I edit the Comment field in File Info for each extracted part to be the instrument name so it automatically appears in both places.) I have also gotten into the habit of rebooting my Mac once a week, whether I need to or not (same as bathing, except that I only do every six months, whether I need to or not!) As a result, I haven't seen the bug for quite a few months now. Plus, people tend to leave me alone more (that might be related to the bathing thing.) Christopher ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Re Tiger Finale
On 2 May 2005, at 15:34, Chuck Israels wrote: Has anyone discovered what Tiger keyboard shortcut is interfering with the scroll view/page view toggling shortcut in Finale (and how to disable the Tiger shortcut)? I assume that is the reason that this familiar shortcut does not work in Tiger. Thanks, System preferences keyboard mouse: uncheck move focus to the window drawer. Regards John ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Hyperscribe and portable keyboard
Please accept my apology up front if this has been discussed recently. I searched the archives but didn't see anything that looked close enough to the subject. I am considering getting a small keyboard for Hyperscribe entry on my laptop (Dell 700m) and would like to know if anyone has an opinion. Richard Bartkus ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Hyperscribe and portable keyboard
Richard Bartkus writes, Please accept my apology up front if this has been discussed recently. I searched the archives but didn't see anything that looked close enough to the subject. I am considering getting a small keyboard for Hyperscribe entry on my laptop (Dell 700m) and would like to know if anyone has an opinion. Richard, I have used a small, very old Cassio CZ101 with a Mac G4 laptop without any problems. You will probably need to assign a key for keeping time rather than using a sustain pedal. Hal -- Harold Owen 2830 Emerald St., Eugene, OR 97403 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit my web site at: http://uoregon.edu/~hjowen FAX: (509) 461-3608 ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] div wind parts
On May 2, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: I think we discussed this recently, but I have forgotten the outcome and need some advice now: I am preparing some orchestral parts. In the wind parts, for about 95% the two flutes play identical music, but very occasionally they devide into two. The decision has been made to only do one part for both flutes. When they go divisi, should they be notated in one or two systems? Is it ok to have them in one system (would save a page turn)? It is SO easy in Finale to have separate parts for all instruments (except perc,, chorus, and string section divisions) that I would do that. You can format the flute 1 part, then copy the flute 2 music into it and save under the new name to preserve the same formatting. I could do it in five minutes, and probably less than that. However, that being said, you asked how to do it if they were on the same page, so I would answer: it depends. If there is much waffling back and forth between unisons for a single note, or if the part is in the least complex (eighth notes or more at a medium tempo) then I would definitely separate the staves. Only put them together on the same staff if both parts are dead easy. Christopher ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] TAN: treble clef in 18th century cello parts
David W. Fenton wrote: The complicated question is: how is treble clef read when notated for double bass? Interesting commentary the problem this presents in old music. Another angle is whether treble (and for that matter, tenor) clef on a double bass should be played *at pitch*. I believe many contemporary composers call for that, although my understanding is that they make a notation to the effect in the score if so. -- Robert Patterson http://RobertGPatterson.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Re: File overwrite bug
wasn't auto-save involved too? so NOT using auto-save could avoid the problem... i think i remember reading... jef -- shirling neueweise \/ new music notation specialists mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :.../ http://newmusicnotation.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Re Tiger Finale
Many thanks, John. This ought to work. Chuck On May 2, 2005, at 9:50 AM, John Bell wrote: On 2 May 2005, at 15:34, Chuck Israels wrote: Has anyone discovered what Tiger keyboard shortcut is interfering with the scroll view/page view toggling shortcut in Finale (and how to disable the Tiger shortcut)? I assume that is the reason that this familiar shortcut does not work in Tiger. Thanks, System preferences keyboard mouse: uncheck move focus to the window drawer. Regards John ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Hyperscribe and portable keyboard
Here is an opinion: Forget Hyperscribe. (Nonetheless a small keyboard will work well for Speedy.) Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Please accept my apology up front if this has been discussed recently. I searched the archives but didn't see anything that looked close enough to the subject. I am considering getting a small keyboard for Hyperscribe entry on my laptop (Dell 700m) and would like to know if anyone has an opinion. Richard Bartkus ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] div wind parts
Christopher Smith schrieb: It is SO easy in Finale to have separate parts for all instruments (except perc,, chorus, and string section divisions) that I would do that. You can format the flute 1 part, then copy the flute 2 music into it and save under the new name to preserve the same formatting. I could do it in five minutes, and probably less than that. This is not my decision. I don't care either way, but the publisher's decision is to have one part. However, that being said, you asked how to do it if they were on the same page, so I would answer: it depends. If there is much waffling back and forth between unisons for a single note, or if the part is in the least complex (eighth notes or more at a medium tempo) then I would definitely separate the staves. Only put them together on the same staff if both parts are dead easy. They are almost completely the same, with the exception of a few bars which are in thirds, mostly. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] TAN: treble clef in 18th century cello parts
David W. Fenton schrieb: On 2 May 2005 at 16:22, Johannes Gebauer wrote: To be honest, I have rarely seen tenor clefs in late 18th century cello parts, and there is no special reason for using treble clefs, it is just a very normal way of notating high cello passages in classical/early romantic music. It's not notated as 8va or 8vb, but as far as I know it is always read an octave down. I just want to make sure this is the case. I see it all the time in my repertory, and it's just read an octave down. Is this _always_ or _most of the time_ in your experience? Are there exceptions to the rule? Does it depend on whether it is manuscript or printed? Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] OT : WinXP question
I am very sorry about this OT question. This list seems to be the best source for my question. Please reply off list. I have got a loaner DELL Precision 370 with Japanese XP/Office installers for my consulting work. Upon initial setup with all the security patches, I am ready to image, but hit the wall. I am a longtime PQDI user to image Windows, but PQDI was bought up by Symantec to be killed so Ghost can be the only one in the game (ack!). PQDI doesn't run on Win32 (ack! ack!), and this DELL has two SATA drives. I was totally unaware that I can't make D: into FAT32. Is this a XP thing or SATA thing? Either way, I am hosed. Question: If I buy Ghost 9.0, will I be able to boot from its CD to image C: drive and save the image file to SATA D: drive? Symantec site didn't give me this info, and I am running out of time. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] div wind parts
At 11:55 AM -0400 5/2/05, Raymond Horton wrote: The only time we would not play a piece was a new symphony that had four part divisis in all the strings - with crossing glissandi, etc., all in one staff. Totally unreadable. We told the composer, his only response was to come back the next day with enlarged pages! Four crossing parts in one staff? That's insane! We learn from our mistakes, and I hope he learned from his. Obviously that composer is not a string player, and perhaps should be under court injunction to refrain from writing for strings until he learns his craft. Garbage in, garbage out! Standard, of course, is to split to as many staves as needed for as short a time as possible. I've seen it in 1812, John Williams, something by Grieg, and the Barber Adagio among others. I'm not sure how the 4-part first violin chords at the end of Valse Triste are notated (we violists already have our instruments in the cases before they finish!), but I'd bet it's on at least two staves. With that said, I have sometimes violated the elementary rules, but for good reason. In my Variations on a Hymn Tune for concert band, I use the euphoniums in unison, then in two parts, three parts, and four parts. To make it perfectly clear and to give them (and the conductor) flexibility in deciding how to double parts, I broke those passages out into one, two, three and four staves as needed, all on a single part. Euphonium players NEVER see anything like that, but it was a special situation with a special solution and they certainly had no trouble figuring it out. And for a good many years I directed and did about half the arranging for a very good college show ensemble, and both of us used similar vocal notation. Unless there was a special reason to write separate soprano, alto, tenor and bass staves, we wrote the choral parts on two staves, one for women and the other for men (using sometimes bass clef and sometimes tenor G-clef). We did it so that we could expand each staff from unison to two, three, or even four parts, and collapse it back down again to unison. The trick, of course, was that when the music was sent out before the season started, it went with a chart that specified which part each individual singer was to sing when their staff split into two, three or four parts, and it was perfectly easy for them to highlight their own personal part and learn it. That way we didn't face the dilemma of having to decide whether to put, for example, the added voice in a 3-part passage for women on the soprano staff or the alto staff. It's a notational convention that's pretty standard for commercial vocal group writing, from what I've seen, and that writing is almost always homophonic. If it gets contrapuntal, that's when you switch to separate staves. John -- John Susie Howell Virginia Tech Department of Music Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Re: File overwrite bug
On May 2, 2005, at 3:36 PM, shirling neueweise wrote: wasn't auto-save involved too? so NOT using auto-save could avoid the problem... i think i remember reading... jef Not for me. Auto save was at the heart of another bug, though, if I remember rightly. Christopher ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Font problem
Brad Beyenhof wrote: Listers, I've got a font that I'd love to use in Finale, and I can get it to display correctly in the Windows version, but FinMac2k5 is having problems. It was originally a Windows TrueType font, but I used freeware programs (TTConverter and dfontifier) to convert it to a Mac Classic TrueType and then to an OSX .dfont, but neither of those steps produced a font Finale could use. Finale 2004 and I assume 2005 only lets you use fonts with particular encodings - if you look up font encoding in the OLD you can read more if my memory serves. This of course is very annoying. It also breaks things like the Opus font in Sibelius. Makemusic replies that it's what all Mac applications should be doing anyway, and so they're not going to change it. Which of course leaves us consumers as the bunnies. Good luck with it anyway, Matthew -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.1 - Release Date: 2/05/2005 ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger)
I've been using Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) for several days now and can report no problems with Finale 2005. The main new features in Tiger are Dashboard and Spotlight . Dashboard brings up a set of Widgets like World Clock and Unit Convertor which are good but I don't really see the point -- they could surely just be in the Dock like the Calculator was. Spotlight is really good. It is a beautifully refined version of Find. As you type, the window expands to display your search results. Clicking on document names in the results shows the corresponding file, folder, mail message, contact or whatever. For me, the greatest thing in Tiger is the untrumpeted arrival of display rotation. I use two monitors: 17 and 21. In system preferences you can rotate either or both monitors through 90, 180 (why?) or 270 degrees. My monitors are not made to sit on the desk on their side, but it took no time at all to construct a rudimentary wooden framework to accomplish this with my larger monitor and now for the first time I can look at a full symphony orchestra score at a scale that is readable. Two minor hiccups in Finale when Tiger is first installed: 1.None of the Finale fonts work. Solution: go to Library Caches, and delete the folder com.apple.ATS. Restart. 2. The Scroll view/Page view keyboard shortcut doesn't work. Solution: go to System Preferences Keyboard Mouse, and uncheck Move focus to the window drawer (or if you're like me, uncheck virtually everything there). I don't think that Tiger presents anything to be afraid of. John ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger)
On May 2, 2005, at 8:19 PM, John Bell wrote:2. The Scroll view/Page view keyboard shortcut doesn't work. Solution: go to System Preferences Keyboard Mouse, and uncheck "Move focus to the window drawer" (or if you're like me, uncheck virtually everything there). Exactly what I did (unchecked everything), and it worked beautifully. Thanks again for finding this solution to the shortcut conflict.Chuck___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger)
John Bell / 2005/05/03 / 11:19 PM wrote: Dashboard brings up a set of Widgets like World Clock and Unit Convertor which are good but I don't really see the point -- they could surely just be in the Dock like the Calculator was. Really?! I am definitely loving it! The three I am using a lot are Dashboard Monitor (download from Apple) to see your CPU, disk I/O, memory, and network activity, Translator/ Dictionary which is very handy for me, and Exchange rate calculator, all comes up by just hitting F12. Much, much quicker than starting an app one by one when you need it. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger)
On 3 May 2005, at 04:31, A-NO-NE Music wrote: John Bell / 2005/05/03 / 11:19 PM wrote: Dashboard brings up a set of Widgets like World Clock and Unit Convertor which are good but I don't really see the point -- they could surely just be in the Dock like the Calculator was. Really?! I am definitely loving it! The three I am using a lot are Dashboard Monitor (download from Apple) to see your CPU, disk I/O, memory, and network activity, Translator/ Dictionary which is very handy for me, and Exchange rate calculator, all comes up by just hitting F12. Much, much quicker than starting an app one by one when you need it. Hey Hiro you're probably right, I agree that the Translator/ Dictionary is great (I don't speak a word of Japanese so it should be at least as handy to me as to you) it's just that I don't understand what advantage the Dashboard gives. Why is it better to go to the Dashboard rather than have these things available in the Dock? I'm not trying to quarrel with you I just don't understand what you mean by saying it's much quicker. John ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger)
John Bell / 2005/05/03 / 12:01 AM wrote: Why is it better to go to the Dashboard rather than have these things available in the Dock? You serious?! I am totally hooked with this: http://a-no-ne.com/music/finale/dashboard.shtml Just with F12, no Dock! \(^o^)/ -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] pdf booklets
I have FinMac 2K4, and I'm working w. a composer who uses FinMac 2K5. We had arranged that he would make pdf files of his scores, which I can read and print w. Acrobat Reader 6.0.1, but now we have hit a snag. To make a choral octavo, my usual practice is to assign the Finale page size to 7 x 8.5, then print 2-up as a staple-bound booklet on folded legal paper. The options for 2-up printing and for booklet printing (the page-range box) are in the Finale popup menu in the Print dialog, so I cannot execute them in Reader. There must be a way for the composer to embed these instructions in his pdf files, but neither of us has any idea how. I think he has the full Acrobat program, but I don't know what version. I have only the Reader. Any advice? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] pdf booklets
Can't he just print preview the file the way it needs to be, and save as a version to send to you, Or have I missed something? steve On May 2, 2005, at 11:52 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: I have FinMac 2K4, and I'm working w. a composer who uses FinMac 2K5. We had arranged that he would make pdf files of his scores, which I can read and print w. Acrobat Reader 6.0.1, but now we have hit a snag. To make a choral octavo, my usual practice is to assign the Finale page size to 7 x 8.5, then print 2-up as a staple-bound booklet on folded legal paper. The options for 2-up printing and for booklet printing (the page-range box) are in the Finale popup menu in the Print dialog, so I cannot execute them in Reader. There must be a way for the composer to embed these instructions in his pdf files, but neither of us has any idea how. I think he has the full Acrobat program, but I don't know what version. I have only the Reader. Any advice? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
