On Dec 10, 2005, at 7:26 PM, josue moreno wrote:
Hi list again,
another trouble with i was dealing a few weeks ago was while i was
entering the notes in my big orchestral work. When i was working in
scroll view, everything was ok, but in page view was horrible. It was
taking about 40 seconds each time the screen started to redraw. I
think in 2004 version for mac is desapear the stop redraw screen
option
Does anybody knows how to do that?
You are right, they removed the interrupt screen redraw option,
thinking it was useless with these new, fast computers. But 2004,
especially the Mac version, was unusable for me because of the slow
redraw speed. Version 2005 is much better. I just got 2006, but haven't
checked for speed yet.
There are some things that slow down the program somewhat, and turning
them off helps speed things up. Here is a list of Finale 2004 issues
(quoted from a previous message by Darcy Argue here on the list about a
year ago or more)
First, make sure you upgrade to Fin2004b -- and make sure you delete
the old Fin2004 application, or re-associate all your Finale files to
Fin2004b.
The two real biggies -- which are actually bugs from earlier versions
of Finale that have gotten much worse in the new version -- are (A)
changes to text blocks (such as copyright notices, etc.) in one
document bleeding over into other open documents, replacing all kinds
of stuff including expressions, staff names, and other text blocks --
so that, for instance, you may find all instances of mp in your
score replaced with Copyright © 2004 Martin Banner. And (B) Finale
overwriting one file with a different file of the same name. This is
rare, but when it happens, it's a real drag. Both of these problems
can only be avoided by not having more than one Finale document open
at once.
Other problems -- the Message Bar slows things down considerably, and
turning it off in Program Options doesn't work (the Message Bar
messages will continue to draw on top of the rulers -- or on top of
the document if the rulers aren't on). Leave it on there, and turn
it off on a window-by-window basis. iKey or QuicKeys are great for
that. [If you don't have an OS X macro app, get one. iKey is only
$20 and you can try it for free for 30 days.]
Having guides slows things down considerably as well, and moving
guides is like dragging a mule. Turn off guides if you don't
absolutely need them.
Turn off all the automatic stuff -- Automatic Word Extensions, Smart
Hyphens, Automatic Music Spacing, Automatic Update Layout. (Turn on
the automatic lyric options just before printing, or use TGTools to
create old-school extensions and correct hyphens.) Also keep in
mind, in Fin2004, you can no longer interrupt the redraw.
AutoSave tends to hang Finale when it tries to autosave a
yet-untitled document. Name all new and imported documents right
away to avoid this bug.
Human Playback is buggy and slow and often causes crashes, especially
when it's set to anything other than Standard. Turn it off --
unless you really, really need it.
Sometimes, Finale will appear to hang, but really it's just having
trouble bringing the Finale window to the front. Use Expose (F9 or
F10) and click on your Finale document window to bring it back.
Sometimes, clicking the forward or back buttons in Page View will
cause Finale to skip ahead or back by two pages.
To take full advantage of Finale 2004's auto-positioning expressions,
you will have to go through your default file and/or templates and
edit the default positioning for each expression individually. For
example, there is no way to select a group of them and edit the
positioning for *all* dynamics at once. Once you've edited e.g.,
your dynamics, save them as a library so you can load it into all of
your templates.
If you have Make Horizontal by Default turned on on your hairpins,
holding down the shift key when applying them (which should logically
*override* this setting, but doesn't) sometimes causes them to not
stretch at all. If you're in the habit of holding down shift when
applying hairpins, if you turn this feature on you'll have to break
that habit.
There was a bug that Chuck and I were afflicted by, where changes to
the Edit Margins windows would not apply until after you closed the
window. That's caused by corrupt preferences. If it happens to you,
delete your prefs and restore from a backup.
Ps: Finally ive got a new 19'' screen and an asistant will be helping
me with corrections.
Great! But the bigger screen means even SLOWER redraws (more area to
redraw!) though you won't have to scroll as much. Take FULL advantage
of the Staff Sets (only displaying the staves that you need on the
screen at the moment) to help this even more.
Christopher
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