Re: [Finale] FinaleScript Booklet
On 26 Apr 2006, at 20:53, Johannes Gebauer wrote: In the printers page setup, choose the appropriate landscape format (ie A3). Open Finale script. If you have a duplex printer, type print booklet On 26 Apr 2006, at 20:52, dc wrote: First of all, when using the Booklet script, you shouldn't set anything in the printer settings of Finale. You leave the printing dialogue alone, but you set up your printer to use the right size of paper and the right orientation. For instance, if my score is A4 portrait, I set my printer to A3 landscape and run the script. If your printer can't duplex, you need to run the script in two parts, one for the recto, one for the verso, as explained in the script itself. Thanks Johannes and Dennis. I've got the page size and orientation OK, but it still prints on one side only. I have tried with the printer layout set to duplex off, and to short-edged binding. Same result both ways. John ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Converting Midi Files to Wav files to be burned on audio cds.
If you are on Mac ... just go File>Save Special>Save as an Audio File. I save it to desktop then drag it into iTunes, from whence you can burn it directly to a CD. I'm operating on Fin2006d. Dean On Apr 26, 2006, at 10:07 AM, Arthur Craig wrote: I learned of this group at a conference MusiCalifornia, last week. I am so excited to participate! Is there a way to convert midi files to wav files and then burn them on an audio cd? I have Finale 2000? Has anyone done this, and if so could you please send me a step by step procedure. Many thanks. Art Celebrate Earth Day everyday! Discover 10 things you can do to help slow climate change. Yahoo! Earth Day ___ 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] FinaleScript Booklet
On 26.04.2006 John Bell wrote: FinMac 2006d Having for years made booklets using the slightly long-winded method of adding pages to make multiples of 4 and specifying the page order etc, I decided to try the FinaleScript method. I set the printer to 2-up, short-edge binding. I ran the Print Booklet script in the plug-ins menu. This produced single-sided, half-sized, portrait-orientated prints. What should I have done? In the printers page setup, choose the appropriate landscape format (ie A3). Open Finale script. If you have a duplex printer, type print booklet and return - off you go. If you don't have a duplex printer, first type print booklet verso then print booklet recto If your booklet has more than 16 pages you should specify ie print booklet 24 [verso/recto] Otherwise Finalescript will print your booklet in 16 page sub-booklets. (This would have to be bound especially) Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] FinaleScript Booklet
FinMac 2006d Having for years made booklets using the slightly long-winded method of adding pages to make multiples of 4 and specifying the page order etc, I decided to try the FinaleScript method. I set the printer to 2-up, short-edge binding. I ran the Print Booklet script in the plug-ins menu. This produced single-sided, half- sized, portrait-orientated prints. What should I have done? John ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Converting Midi Files to Wav files to be burned on audio cds.
On 26 Apr 2006 at 10:07, Arthur Craig wrote: > I learned of this group at a conference MusiCalifornia, last week. I > am so excited to participate! > > Is there a way to convert midi files to wav files and then burn them > on an audio cd? I have Finale 2000? Has anyone done this, and if so > could you please send me a step by step procedure. Many thanks. Later versions of Finale can save to WAV file directly, but not 2K. You don't say if you are Mac or Windows, but on Windows, I use an inexpensive program called Midi2Wav, which plays a MIDI file back through whatever onboard synthesizer you choose, and captures the output to a WAV file. Other programs can capture the audio output, but a program that coordinates the starting and ending of the MIDI file is helpful so you don't have to edit the resulting WAV file. I've used Midi2Wav for years, originally on my Win95 PC. The latest version has one annoying feature, which is that if you don't put some silence at the end of your MIDI file, you get a bad pop right on the termination of the WAV file. This may actually be due to a problem with my system and the audio drivers, but the solution I've used is to put a MIDI event in an otherwise empty measure at the end of my MIDI files. It's kind of annoying, but an easy workaround. For a $20 program, it's not too much of a problem. There are probably better programs that others can recommend, but the process is basically the same -- you need something that can capture the audio output and write it to a WAV file. -- David W. Fentonhttp://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.
At 05:21 PM 4/26/06 +0200, you wrote: >I'm still on 2K4, but was told that there were still font issues with >FinWin2K6. Could you try with the three different types of fonts (TT, PS >and OT) and let us know if they are all embedded correctly? I just tried this under WinXP. The fonts all embed and distill, but the font properties in the PDF report them all as Type 1 fonts. Dennis (PS: The paper size problem still exists under XP) ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Re: Multimeasure rest symbols in 4/2
John Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But as to wanting to revert to the stacks of rests (which go back in time to the inventor of rests with specific values, Franco of Cologne, in the 13th century), I was never so happy as when modern publications dropped that old-fashioned business in orchestral music and adopted the simple multimeasure rest convention. In either case, I'll end up counting measures, so just tell me how many measures to count! I recall being very grateful for breve and long rests when reading the bass part of the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony in a poor light. They were much more distinguishable than "3" and "5" in the font the publisher had used. -- Ken Moore Musician and engineer ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Converting Midi Files to Wav files to be burned on audio cds.
I learned of this group at a conference MusiCalifornia, last week. I am so excited to participate! Is there a way to convert midi files to wav files and then burn them on an audio cd? I have Finale 2000? Has anyone done this, and if so could you please send me a step by step procedure. Many thanks. Art Celebrate Earth Day everyday! Discover 10 things you can do to help slow climate change. Yahoo! Earth Day___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.
On 26.04.2006 Kim Patrick Clow wrote: My apologies too for bring up an issue that may have been discussed earlier. I tend to focus on a narrow band of issues that are a roadblock at the time, and I tend not to pay a lot of attention if it's not something I am working on at that time. I just finally settled most of the other troubles Finale has given me, when I had this trouble with the PDF. So the list's patience is greatly appreciated. Not at all. These issues need to be discussed. And if you want to get it fixed you should bombard MakeMusic with "problem reports". 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] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.
I used Finale 2005a with Acrobat 6.0 on XP Box. Johannes, your PDF looked fine. There weren't any issues. The quality of it also made me wonder that I was doing something wrong. My apologies too for bring up an issue that may have been discussed earlier. I tend to focus on a narrow band of issues that are a roadblock at the time, and I tend not to pay a lot of attention if it's not something I am working on at that time. I just finally settled most of the other troubles Finale has given me, when I had this trouble with the PDF. So the list's patience is greatly appreciated. Thanks Kim On 4/26/06, Johannes Gebauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 26.04.2006 Kim Patrick Clow wrote:> Here's a sample of my PDF @ http://www.bytenet.net/kpclow/finale/sample.pdf I used the highest setting possible (Printer's quality) and I upped the DPI to 2400. Still not as good as this Molter sample, or the Sibelius. My beams seem very ragged, no matter how much you zoom in. And I noticed that Finale's staff lines seem too thick. And some of the articulations and words have a splotchy look. Which platform. Which Distiller. Which Finale version.How do the PDFs I sent you recently compare?I am pretty sure this is the known FinWin only problem. There has been alot of discussion about this in the past. I don't know the details, but I was under the impression that Fin2k6 corrected this.The problem has never been reported for Mac PDFs created from Finale, soI would be surprised if the same was true for the PDFs I sent you, but Iam interested to hear your opinion. Johannes--http://www.musikmanufaktur.comhttp://www.camerata-berolinensis.de___ Finale mailing listFinale@shsu.eduhttp://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale -- Kim Patrick Clow"There's really only two types of music: good and bad." ~ Rossini ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.
At 05:21 PM 4/26/06 +0200, you wrote: >I'm still on 2K4, but was told that there were still font issues with >FinWin2K6. Could you try with the three different types of fonts (TT, PS >and OT) and let us know if they are all embedded correctly? It finished compiling, but OpenType fonts crash the Distilling process. I'm using Distiller 5, but I tried it in Ghostscript and direct print to Adobe PDF generator, and it can't do it either. Error is thrown on the font name. (Keep in mind I'm using Win98SE with Adobe Type Manager -- but OpenType works on other programs such as MSWord when printing to PDF.) Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.
Dennis, you take the words right out of my mouth! I was ready to cheer, but no, alas.. I'll try the graphics tool. Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: However, there is a problem anyway. Even with the printer set up to the custom paper size, it won't compile to it. I use a very nice 9.25x12.25 template -- but the Compile Postscript Listing dialog box does not respect sizes entered into its page size box. Whatever is selected from the droplist is used, even though the dialog box maintains the sizes for the next score. There is no "custom" entry in the droplist. I couldn't find either an .ini file or registry entry that determines the sizes in the droplist. :( (However, using the graphics tool for exporting EPS respects the page size. But one it's one page at a time. Can EPS files be combined into a PS file?) Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.
At 05:21 PM 4/26/06 +0200, you wrote: >I'm still on 2K4, but was told that there were still font issues with >FinWin2K6. Could you try with the three different types of fonts (TT, PS >and OT) and let us know if they are all embedded correctly? I will soon. The file I just distilled has both TrueType and Type 1 fonts in it, and so far all characters appear correctly. I only have a few OT fonts, but will put give this a shot. Back in a few minutes However, there is a problem anyway. Even with the printer set up to the custom paper size, it won't compile to it. I use a very nice 9.25x12.25 template -- but the Compile Postscript Listing dialog box does not respect sizes entered into its page size box. Whatever is selected from the droplist is used, even though the dialog box maintains the sizes for the next score. There is no "custom" entry in the droplist. I couldn't find either an .ini file or registry entry that determines the sizes in the droplist. :( (However, using the graphics tool for exporting EPS respects the page size. But one it's one page at a time. Can EPS files be combined into a PS file?) Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] That magical SPEED LOSS folder
Can someone please remind me where that magical Finale temp speed loss folder is, and what to empty from it to get Finale to work quickly again? Liudas ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.
Finale : $600.00 Acrobat:$200.00 Finale's Mailing List : Priceless ;) On 4/26/06, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 04:44 PM 4/26/06 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote:>I am pretty sure this is the known FinWin only problem. There has been a >lot of discussion about this in the past. I don't know the details, but>I was under the impression that Fin2k6 corrected this.AAHHH! I had *so* given up on this that I never tried "Compile Postscript Listing" on FinWin2K6 until you said this. It works![Insert long string of positive expletives here]Thanks for mentioning this fix. Oo oo oo oo ooo. Best news of the week. The month, even. And the display is very nice, not allblotchy and uneven. And the files are small, too.Future beers are on me,Dennis--Please participate in my latest project: http://maltedmedia.com/waam/___Finale mailing listFinale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale-- Kim Patrick Clow"There's really only two types of music: good and bad." ~ Rossini ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.
At 04:44 PM 4/26/06 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >I am pretty sure this is the known FinWin only problem. There has been a >lot of discussion about this in the past. I don't know the details, but >I was under the impression that Fin2k6 corrected this. AAHHH! I had *so* given up on this that I never tried "Compile Postscript Listing" on FinWin2K6 until you said this. It works! [Insert long string of positive expletives here] Thanks for mentioning this fix. Oo oo oo oo ooo. Best news of the week. The month, even. And the display is very nice, not all blotchy and uneven. And the files are small, too. Future beers are on me, Dennis -- Please participate in my latest project: http://maltedmedia.com/waam/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.
On 26.04.2006 Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Here's a sample of my PDF @ http://www.bytenet.net/kpclow/finale/sample.pdf I used the highest setting possible (Printer's quality) and I upped the DPI to 2400. Still not as good as this Molter sample, or the Sibelius. My beams seem very ragged, no matter how much you zoom in. And I noticed that Finale's staff lines seem too thick. And some of the articulations and words have a splotchy look. Which platform. Which Distiller. Which Finale version. How do the PDFs I sent you recently compare? I am pretty sure this is the known FinWin only problem. There has been a lot of discussion about this in the past. I don't know the details, but I was under the impression that Fin2k6 corrected this. The problem has never been reported for Mac PDFs created from Finale, so I would be surprised if the same was true for the PDFs I sent you, but I am interested to hear your opinion. 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] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.
On Apr 26, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: I know someone who uses Sibelius and they sent me a PDF of a file. Instantly the minute the PDF opened on my screen, the quality was noticeably better than any PDF I have created with Finale. Are there some settings that I don't know about to make the absolutely sharpest, clearest PDF possible. Or is something that Finale doesn't handle well? For example online there is this: http://www.utorpheus.com/misc/pagine_musica/tib011.pdf and I've posted a screenshot of my friend's Sibelius PDF at http://www.bytenet.net/kpclow/finale/sample-sib.bmp Here's a sample of my PDF @ http://www.bytenet.net/kpclow/finale/sample.pdf I used the highest setting possible (Printer's quality) and I upped the DPI to 2400. Still not as good as this Molter sample, or the Sibelius. My beams seem very ragged, no matter how much you zoom in. And I noticed that Finale's staff lines seem too thick. And some of the articulations and words have a splotchy look. This is very frustrating for me. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. There are a few inconsistencies here. In your sample.pdf I saw no words or articulations at all, so I couldn't comment. But everything else, including lines, beams, slurs, and bar numbers, stayed nice and smooth right up to the highest zoom, as it should. PDFs are supposed to NOT use bitmaps, which get jaggy at high zoom; they are supposed to use little equations to draw lines and so do not lose resolution no matter how they are resized. I did notice that the stems on flagged eighths seem to have alignment issues with the flag, and you have not corrected Finale's mistreatment of slanted beams so there are little white wedges with staff lines (Patterson Beams plugin corrects this last one) but everything else is fine. Are you sure this is a PDF issue, and not a screen viewing issue on your computer? Compare printouts of your PDF files with printouts of the original Finale file to be sure you are comparing apples to apples. Antialiasing can put little grey borders around curved objects on screen which could account for the splotchy look you mention, but that doesn't print out usually. (One thing that doesn't concern you, but Apple's Preview app shows lines and beams in your file as grey instead of black onscreen. They show up correctly in Adobe Reader 7, so it is obviously a Preview issue. I see this all the time with Finale PDFs viewed in Preview that come from PC computers.) Your friend's sample-sib.bmp IS a bitmap, and so automatically gets jaggy when zoomed. Just on screen, I saw some bad stem-notehead connections and the right-most barline appears badly aligned, though that could be cropping. I would have to see the original PDF to make a proper comparison. The tib011.pdf looks fine - no flag end issues and hardly any slanted beams so I couldn't comment on the wedges. He seems to have set his barlines to be about twice as thick as his stems and staff lines, which doesn't seem to be consistent with publication practice. I don't know as much about this, but I think the usual idea is to have stems thinner than barlines, which are in turn thinner than staff lines by a small amount, though I see a lot of different opinions on this. If you don't like your line thicknesses, they are easy to set in Document Options>Lines. I notice your stems, staff lines and barlines all seem to be set the same, which I think is the Finale default, but they are easy to change. I find good-looking line thickness depends on the size of staff you are using, so I hesitate to offer any exact suggestions since you are almost certainly using different staff heights than I am. Christopher ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.
I made this PDF a few minutes ago http://www.isalog.info/notur/sumar.pdf , how does that compare?CortezI know someone who uses Sibelius and they sent me a PDF of a file. Instantly the minute the PDF opened on my screen, the quality was noticeably better than any PDF I have created with Finale. Are there some settings that I don't know about to make the absolutely sharpest, clearest PDF possible. Or is something that Finale doesn't handle well? For example online there is this: http://www.utorpheus.com/misc/pagine_musica/tib011.pdf and I've posted a screenshot of my friend's Sibelius PDF at http://www.bytenet.net/kpclow/finale/sample-sib.bmp Here's a sample of my PDF @ http://www.bytenet.net/kpclow/finale/sample.pdf I used the highest setting possible (Printer's quality) and I upped the DPI to 2400. Still not as good as this Molter sample, or the Sibelius. My beams seem very ragged, no matter how much you zoom in. And I noticed that Finale's staff lines seem too thick. And some of the articulations and words have a splotchy look. This is very frustrating for me. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Kim Patrick Clow ___Finale mailing listFinale@shsu.eduhttp://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.
I know someone who uses Sibelius and they sent me a PDF of a file. Instantly the minute the PDF opened on my screen, the quality was noticeably better than any PDF I have created with Finale. Are there some settings that I don't know about to make the absolutely sharpest, clearest PDF possible. Or is something that Finale doesn't handle well? For example online there is this: http://www.utorpheus.com/misc/pagine_musica/tib011.pdf and I've posted a screenshot of my friend's Sibelius PDF at http://www.bytenet.net/kpclow/finale/sample-sib.bmp Here's a sample of my PDF @ http://www.bytenet.net/kpclow/finale/sample.pdf I used the highest setting possible (Printer's quality) and I upped the DPI to 2400. Still not as good as this Molter sample, or the Sibelius. My beams seem very ragged, no matter how much you zoom in. And I noticed that Finale's staff lines seem too thick. And some of the articulations and words have a splotchy look. This is very frustrating for me. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Kim Patrick Clow ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
