Re: [Finale] Quoting
What messes me up is coming up on an interesection and seeing.. HERE STOP reminds me of lots of WAY - FREE's that I drive on. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale SongWriter??
http://www.makemusic.com/press_releases.aspx?pid=53 Does MakeMusic! really need *another* intermediate-level notation product? I just wish they'd update Printmusic from 2004 so I can replace NotepadFree with something cheap that recognizes a USB MIDI keyboard. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] A Brief Commentary
I've been away for a few days, receiving e-mails but not really reading any. Today I looked to see 457 messages in my Finale List folder. 243 of them are about Sibelius. It's no skin off my nose, since I'll delete 'em without further ado, but if finale@shsu.edu is going to be spending so much time on Sibelius, maybe it ought to be the composer we're talking about! ng Every time a new Finale or a new Sibelius is announced this happens, then it dies down. It will pass. Same thing happens on the Logic mailing list. You should have seen when Apple bought logic and announced they were dropping the Windows version! -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] [Tan] Take it down!
I believe, as has been pointed out before, that to Mailman the words private list mean something different from how you mean it. As the list page says, This is a private list, which means that the list of members is not available to non-members. That's *all* it means to Mailman. It does not mean that you have any greater than usual expectation of privacy in your postings. Running a Mailman mailing list myself, I know that it is possible to make email addresses unaivailable to anyone, including subscribers. Yay - that might finally fix the Reply to list behaviour! (runs and ducks for cover). -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] USB MIDI Interface (was: Sibelius version 4 has dynamic score/parts linking!)
Darcy James Argue / 2005/07/07 / 07:14 PM wrote: I agree, USB 1.1 is inadequate for MIDI + everything else, but that's why the pros get a FireWire or USB 2 MIDI interface. Are you sure about this? MIDI's 1980 technology is so slow I can't understand how even USB 1.0 wouldn't be miles faster than the fastest MIDI signals. Or are you saying that using a Qwerty keyboard, mouse, scanner, digital camera, etc on USB alongside MIDi is creating a data bottleneck? I run an 8 port Unitor8 (old serial) on an OSX Mac (using the Gee Three serial port) without any trouble, as do I get no trouble from an AMT8 (USB) on a USB1 Powerbook. But I don't put anything else on USB besides a QWERTY and a mouse, everything else is on Firewire. I can see the point of smart interfaces where the MIDI data is sent ahead of time (time stamping) so that all 8 MIDI ports can be triggered simultaneously, but I'm not sure this is the issue. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
RE: [Finale] Is this a Finale or Sibelius list?
Okay, I seem to have started a tempest in a teapot here. I joined this list serve a week ago. There were days when all I saw where lists of Sibelius this and Sibelius that. As a newcomer I was beginning to believe this was a Sibelius list and that I had joined the wrong one. I thought, okay, this is a general music software discussion site. Then Michael Lawler and Ken Folwer complained and I realized what was wrong. In peace. Ron Ron, its just the timing of when you joined. New Sibelius or New Finale - it always peaks up then gets back to business. Just cruise back for a bit and it will die down and go back to normal. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale in the Education Market (Was Dynamic Parts)
I am probably going to have to buy a copy of Sibelius soon, just so that our school can cater for students who already have this package at home and are more used to it. If a student from our school goes to a shop without talking to me first, they always seem to be directed to Sibelius. I have done the same thing at Sydney Uni - the majority of students I deal with use Sibelius, until they do our Music Publishing course which is based upon Finale. I too get the why don't you teach Sibelius instead comments on a regular basis. From talking to the students, a sizeable proportion of them use cracked versions of Sibelius, which, being more powerful than Finale Notepad, yields them better results. While Finale Notepad is free, so are cracked versions of Sibelius. Sadly, I have heard that a nearby State School teacher gives out cracked Sibelius to all his music elective students. Not something I'm about to do so I will stick with Finale Free. It is great to be able to tell students to download Finale Notepad though. For a lot of them, it's all they need anyway. Yes. Some of our students do HSC compositions on Fin Notepad Free and only bring it into Finale right at the end for some prettying up. And those who have bought the AUS$299 education priced Finale certainly seem to be happy enough. Three or four students here bought the full Finale last year, all because they had used the Free version first. And the $299 price is also for Tertiary and Schools - Sibelius charges AUD$499 for schools. -- Rocky Road - (David Stonestreet) ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] MOTU Updates vs. MakeMusic Updates
Looking that MOTU just updated Digital Performer to 4.6 for free to it's 4.5 users, and seeing all the GREAT improvements, it makes me laugh at MakeMusic and Finale. My God, there are a lot of useful, functional features that I can get for FREE updating to 4.6. Congrats MOTU! Honestly, this latest Finale update should have been for free...makes me wonder about MakeMusic...Couldn't they have updated Finale 2005 with the textured paper feature? Or some of these other things? Like the Handbell chart? I don't get the reasoning here Maybe if MakeMusic was also selling a truckload of 2408's, 828's 24IO's, 96HD's, and other assorted hardware interfaces, they might be able to afford a free Finale update here and there. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Finale in the Education Market (Was Dynamic Parts)
David (and then Darcy) wrote: If Finale doesn't start listening to its core users and stop dicking around with fancy playback issues, it's going to lose the entire educational and professional market, plain and simple. David, this is a baseless assertion. First, hardcore engravers don't drive sales of Finale. Second, what on earth makes you think the educational market isn't interested in playback? Third, Finale is only just now catching up to (and, in some was, surpassing) Sibelius in terms of playback capabilities. Sib has had it together on playback for a while now, which is why they were able to be innovative in other areas, like the new Dynamic Parts. My school here in Sydney, Australia uses Finale, but this is because I like it and I introduced it here when we brought computers into the music department some years back (being head of music has its privileges :-) ). However, all around us, it seems to be all Sibelius. Most Music Technology and Music Education stores sell both, but only seem to push SIbelius. The nearest Music Education store regularly promotes Sibelius in their literature and technology training days (and the other Sibelius - linked products like Auralia). They are quite happy to sell you Finale products, but you usually have to ask specifically. So I would conclude that most music teachers who didn't have any previous notation software experience would end up as Sibelius uses here in Sydney. The only difference could be what software is being used in the Universities in around Sydney that offer Music Ed degrees (and I don't know what that is now - when I went through it was Notator Logic on Atari and Master Tracks Pro on a Mac Plus!) This school semester I even got a potential new parent asking why we didn't use Sibelius - they assumed it was what school's use (They had not ever heard of Finale!). I hear a lot of baseless comments among music teachers at other schools, and also among our own students (stemming from their private teachers) about how Sibelius is better - but when you dig deeper it nearly always comes down to what they heard off some sales rep or at a conference trade display rather than experience with both software packages. I don't at all mind that some (or many) people prefer Sibelius, but I hate when the marketing engines drive the buzz instead of reality. I am probably going to have to buy a copy of Sibelius soon, just so that our school can cater for students who already have this package at home and are more used to it. If a student from our school goes to a shop without talking to me first, they always seem to be directed to Sibelius. Later in the thread Matthew Hindson wrote: However unless they've integrated Scroll View into Sibelius, made articulations draggable, added handles to slurs and other items, add a graphics creator/editor and release a free Notepad version of Sibelius for my students, (amongst many other things) then I will for the time being stay put. The hours of frustration from these missing/malfunctioning items will not quite compensate for saved hours in linking revisions in parts to score, as tempting as it seems: though it is getting much closer... Finale is going to have to lift its game. Notepad free is also a clincher for me. To be able to tell all our elective students to go home an download for free something that will look just like the expensive software at school is a great bonus, and has been the prime reason that computer technology has caught on among our music students. Some of these students go on to buy the full Finale at the education price (currently AUD$299). I doubt many parents would have paid that without seeing its use first. You (and I) might stick to Finale, but I don't think you are the typical education user (you make your own fonts for goodness sake!). The average B.Mus/B.Ed from UNSW or Sydney or Newcastle or the Crematorium are still not greatly technology savvy (or interested) and will go with the marketing flow. Even if Finale lift their game they will need to win over the Retailers and Trade Show marketers. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Sibelius - Dynamic Parts
Not to mention EPS export, broken for years and years, and probably never to be fixed. I must say I'm very tempted to switch, at least for some projects. It's also quite amazing that many of us got more attention from Sibelius than from MM. Dennis You might be a different Dennis but I'm sure there was a Dennis on this forum swearing he'd never upgrade software that used Challenge-Response copy protection. Isn't Sibelius CP even more Draconian? (Does it allow more than one copy?) -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Sibelius version 4 has dynamic score/parts linking!
David W. Fenton wrote: Er, doesn't Sibelius have a little copy protection/activation code problem that ought to prevent you from switching, given that you won't upgrade past Finale 2003? Yep, they've got the same call-response sort of activation scheme that Finale has. Sibelius was very helpful when I needed to get back one of my 2 installs due to a hard-disk change, as was Finale. Do they allow two locations like Finale do from the one purchase? I have Finale on my laptop for mobile work and on a desktop computer for office work. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Wil Jari review Fin2006
I always enjoy his reviews. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Origin and usefulness of these music fonts
I have a number of music fonts that have populated my Fonts folder over the years (apart from common ones like Jazz and Maestro), and I was wondering if anyone could tell me what program they come from, and if they are still used by current version of the programs: Engraver Font Inkpen2 Opus Petrucci PG Music font Sebastian Seville StaffClefPitchesEasy Tamburo Does Finale use any of these? Thanks -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT - Apple move to Intel
I don't know of any other actively-developed commercial app that took longer releasing a native OS X version than Finale. It was such a great race to be last... Who _did_ win? Was it Quark or MM? I can't remember :-! Fin2004 was released after the X versions of Quark, Cubase and Protools. - Darcy But Finale did beat Band in a Box! -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] .eps Export/Import into Word
In an exchange with MacSupport, they told me that the ultra low-res preview image was the result of design. If they had included a high-res preview, then your word processing file would have been huge. I complained, and said that the resolution was so low I couldn't proof my word-processing document without printing it out, which of course adds yet another useless step to the already fussy procedure. I suggested that there be a user-selectionable image resolution, set low by default if they like, but the default should be user-adjustable. Maybe a slider. They said they would forward it to feature requests, but it will die there unless other people write in and ask for it as well. I complained too. But in the meantime I have switched to 600dpi TIFF images so I can read and check music on screen, which like you I like to do. They look good. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger)
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. I imagine 180 degrees is useful for roof mounting displays or something like that. Can it reverse the Left-right image (so that you could read it in a mirror)? -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Early report - Tiger Finale
Title: Re: [Finale] Early report - Tiger Finale Reports seem to indicate that screen rotation is available in Tiger, but I have been unable to find the place that controls it. Maybe Darcy, Hiro, or Brad, or another of the Mac mavens on the list, can help. Look up in System Preference panel -- Monitor -- Pivot -- 90 deg. Mais je ne le trouve pas! Where is this hidden? I see settings for resolution etc. but not for Monitor -- pivot. What error am I making? System Preferences Displays Display Rotate. I have 2 Formac displays, 17 and 20. This option is shown for both and works perfectly. My problem is how to prop the display up on its side, as it is not designed for this. Does anyone know if it works on the built in screens on recent Apple Powerbooks? (I use an external keyboard and mouse) -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Print Music 2005?
Is Finale Print Music up to 2005 version? If not, is it coming soon? I have Finale 2005 on the main Dept computer and was thinking of buying Printmusic for the 5 classroom iMacs, but I don't want incompatible versions. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] TAN: OSX Panther Upgrade
Rocky Road / 05.2.10 / 04:10 AM wrote: I'm sure you had a good reason, but I hope you realise that Tiger (10.4) could be just around the corner. In my opinion, You do not want to depend your work on first generation anything, both software and hardware. First generation is for you to play with, getting used to, and read reports around until you feel comfortable to move your workstation over. Buying Panther now is not a waste of money at all. Wasn't OSX 10.0 the First generation? 10.1 was when it really got usable. Tiger is the fifth generation of OSX. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] TAN: OSX Panther Upgrade
Okay, so I ordered the Panther upgrade. I'm sure you had a good reason, but I hope you realise that Tiger (10.4) could be just around the corner. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Garage Band 2
Mark D Lew wrote: Or maybe Recordare will look into creating a utility to convert them to MusicXML? If they could it would be great, because since GB is based on Logic, we would have some hope of directly exporting MusicXML files from Logic as well. BTW GarageBand is a great little app for anyone who hasn't tried it. It's an extreme resource hog, but still, students LOVE working with it. And once they learn how to bounce down tracks to save processing power, it's possible to do some quite sophisticated things with it, even if you can't change time signatures. Matthew The first time I've ever seen year 10 students willingly miss recess break was when I got them onto GBand for the first time in the lab in the period before break. This continued for weeks - started taking something to eat with me -- Rocky Road ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Re: Johnny Williams
Could you be referring to John Williams the British classical guitarist and founder of Sky?? I always thought of him as an Australian. I'm not sure why. Was he born in Australia? -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Back to EPS
EPS worked fine for me in FinMac2002 and 2003, in system 9. It works after a fashion in 2005 in OSX as well, it's just that the previews are such low quality as to be illegible, but they print OK. That's what has forced me to switch to 600dpi TIFF. I like to be able to clearly read the music on screen inside things like Word documents. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] FINALE in two monitors
I have read some comments about the possibility of this. I have, however, been unable to find a definitive procedure. Can someone help me on this? If you have a Mac Powerbook, plug another monitor in the video port and away you go (this is what I do). If you have a recent desktop mac like a G5 or late G4, the video card has two ports and with the right adaptor (depending on whether your monitors are CRT or LCD) you can run two out of the box If you have an older desktop mac like an earlier G4 tower, you can buy a second PCI video card like the Radeon 7000. If you have a PC - dunno! I suppose you just buy another video card. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OSX strikes again
ALL my eps files seem to break whenever I upgrade Finale. I use eps extensively in my school handouts, I do school handouts and exams - after the EPS preview quality became so bad in Fin2004 (deliberate choice by Makemusic), I have now switched to 600dpi TIFF. The onscreen image is back to where it used to be with EPS (I like to be able to see the graphics clearly on screen - not just when printed). I also experienced the EPS font changing problem at times, especially across different version of MSWord. I think TIFF will do me fine now. Unsized, I couldn't tell the difference off my Laser printer. 300dpi TIFF was slightly jaggy compared to EPS, but 600dpi is identical to my eye. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT - free ear training software?
Someone from another list is looking for free or nearly free PC (not Mac) ear training software, just for himself, not a classroom situation. I see several out there; anybody recommend one in particular? Thanks Stu For the price (free), you can't go past Music Trainers and Utilities http://www.musictheory.net/downloads.html Good site too. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Public Domain Music
Title: Re: [Finale] Public Domain Music BTW, here is the copyright notice Woody Guthrie affixed to his own self-published songbooks: This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do. W.G. How things change. Check what was displayed below the scoreboard at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics: The Olympic Movement tends to bring together in a radiant union, All the qualities which guide mankind to perfection - classification of points on a national basis is not recognised -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] .eps in Word
On the Mac side, The quality of the EPS preview was downgraded significantly in Finale 2004. I use Finale EPS's in Word and up till then had found them very readable on screen. In 2004 they are awful. It's not a question of awful quality, it's like Maestro/Petrucci aren't installed -- ae's instead of noteheads, etc. (And Maestro/Petrucci ARE available to Word -- listed in the font list, and I've used 'em for some music symbols in text... ng Oh Ok. That's a different problem. And I had that problem once. I think it was when I was using Word OSX with an earlier version of OSX, like 10.1. THe EPS's worked in Word 98 (in classic) but not in Word v.X. Somehow it fixed itself up for me, I think it was with an OS update. WHat I was referring to in my first post, is you can see the notation, but the notes and lines are low res and blocky. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] [OT] Color Laserprinters Duplex Experiences
In conclusion, I'm very glad of my C4000, no technical or printing problems 'till now, and it's gradually paying back the money I invested for, as my financial planning had, in the best case, previewed. Giovanni Andreani Wow. In Australia that's a $5000 printer! -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] .eps in Word
Greetings... This problem may be old news for many of you, but it's new to me. I've just started using Word as my word processor after years of using WordPerfect. I just did a test to see how smoothly .EPS import into Word and how they look on-screen. How smoothly? Very. How do they look? Wrong. The music fonts don't turn up as they're supposed to (regardless of whether they're in Petrucci or Maestro). These tests were of .EPS files that do work just fine when imported into WordPerfect and into page layout programs. If the files are OK (and they include the font, plus a TIFF display version), why isn't Word displaying them properly??? ng What Computer Platform? What Operating System version? What version of Word? What version of Finale? On the Mac side, The quality of the EPS preview was downgraded significantly in Finale 2004. I use Finale EPS's in Word and up till then had found them very readable on screen. In 2004 they are awful. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced
Title: Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced * New Fit Width Command. That will be nice for viewing. I always use Fit Width in MS Word. Great way to quickly choose and define the size you want. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] 2004c User Manual inoperative
Yeah, but it doesn't. OS X's default PDF reader is Apple's Preview (which is much better than Acrobat Reader in almost every single respect). Except when copying text. It doesn't copy line returns so everything becomes a big block of text. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale and Laptops
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:23:20 +0200, Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still have one application which I cannot replace by an OS X equivalent, Emagic Waveburner. There simply isn't one at this point. Good news for you! From http://www.soundtech.co.uk/emagic/waveburn.htm : NOTE: WaveBurner Pro for Mac OS X is currently in development. So Finale *wasn't* the last straggler, then. :) Finale beat Band in a Box too. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] FinMac 2004c - Taking too long to allocate instruments
To answer everyone in one go. Yes, its OSX Its a brand new install of OSX10.3.4 which I loaded yesterday (complete install, not an update), followed by a fresh install of Finale 2004, which I then updated to 2004c If I cancel the document wizard at the start, Finale boots quickly, but as soon as I open a new document (or an old one) the instrument assigning thing starts. I didn't think fragmentation was an issue in OSX 10.3. All other software (including Logic, Reason and Peak) runs fine. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] FinMac 2004c - Taking too long to allocate instruments
I have updated from Finale 2002 to 2004c on my desktop machine (G4/400). When I open a new document it sits for 4-6 minutes (!) while displaying this message: Finale Is Allocating Instruments for internal speaker playback Then everytime I press the play button it sits for 1:30 while displaying the same message Can I speed this up? Its crazy. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] OT: Band in a Box released for OSX
And thus ends (for me) the ballad of OS9. http://www.pgmusic.com (and if you hate top quoting check out the PG web forums - new posts appear above the previous one and you have to go to the bottom and scroll up to read them in order!) -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] {Spam} FinMac 2004c - What happened to EPS preview quality?
Title: FinMac 2004c - What happened to EPS preview quality? Now we have EPS back in Finale for mac, but what on earth happened to the on screen preview quality? It's dreadful. I used to be able to read EPS's in Word quite clearly on screen when they were made in Finale 2002b, now they are quite blocky and low res. I opened a Fin2002 document up in Fin2004 and exported the same graphic into word, and although they print the same, on screen the new version is awful. Why would this be? -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. attachment: P79854BF0_1___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] {Spam} FinMac 2004c - What happened to EPS preview
I guess ideally Finale should allow to set the preview resolution, but as it stands I am glad EPS works at all. Yes, I agree there. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 copy protection help.
Can I easily transfer my registration to the portable? You can register two computers simultaneously -- there is no problem registering both a portable and a desktop computer. I had a laptop and a desktop registered, and then sold the laptop and bought a new one. Rang them up and the changeover all went smoothly. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
