[Finale] EPS Font Fix - new walkthrough w/files
I started to write a reply to some questions posed about EPS font problems and decided to go ahead and create a walk-through showing screenshots and providing the test files with the hope that they will prove to be instructive and assist people having problems with EPS exports in Windows. Other members of this list have kindly provided some files from Mac; however, I have not included them here as the behavior was different and I have not felt I have a handle on what the problem is within a Mac enviroinment; nonetheless, people having problems with Mac EPS export may want to consult this page, as well, and perhaps it might provide insight on how to fix the problem. Of course, this is something MakeMusic should fix, but if you have to get your work out the door now, rather than when developers at MakeMusic choose to fix this problem, the methodology outlined here should be of help. http://www.editionspoole.com/admin/FinaleTips/font_fix/Font_fix.htm This is a private link, you will not find it referenced anywhere on my site at this time. -- John Poole Editions Poole http://www.editionspoole.com ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] EPS Font Fix - new walkthrough w/files
John Poole wrote: > I started to write a reply to some questions posed about EPS font > problems and decided to go ahead and create a walk-through showing > screenshots and providing the test files with the hope that they will > prove to be instructive and assist people having problems with EPS > exports in Windows. Thank you, John for this work. I followed your method exactly. I am on Windows XP Home and Finale2004b.r1 I opened your MUS file in Finale and exported it as EPS. In Photoshop Elements the text blocks of my version of singl001.EPS are fine and the music characters are wrong just like the ones in your screen shot. My EPS export also had 13 instances of a font to replace. In my case it was called TTC7B00 not TT1CAB00. For example: /TTC7B00 ff 85.416664 scf stf 395.9573 2635.563 elw m (&) t After I replaced these with Maestro, the file opened in Photoshop Elements with all of the Maestro characters correct (the good news). However the text blocks had been turned to Courier (the bad news). I then made 13 files, one for each substitution of TTC7B00, then several replacing some but not others. Several of these showed up as expected with one music character being fixed but not the others. However, I was unable to find a combination of font replacements that did NOT result in Courier being substituted for Arial (actually Helvetica in the EPS listing) and Times-Roman even though I never substituted those fonts, only TTC7B00. As far as I can tell ANY substitution of one or more instances of Maestro for TTC7B00 somehow messed up Arial and Times. Any idea what this means? Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] EPS Font Fix - new walkthrough w/files
My last post had an error. My original singl001.EPS file did NOT display Times New Roman and Arial correctly. Both showed as Courier. I looked further. The EPS listing has 'Times-Roman' and 'Helvetica' neither of which are on my system. If I search-and-replace 'Helvetica' with 'Arial' then Arial displays correctly. If I search-and-replace 'Times-Roman' with 'Times New Roman' there is an error message that Photoshop cannot parse the file. If I search-and-replace 'Times-Roman' with any other opentype font with that has only a single word in its name it displays correctly! It seems that font names with spaces are a problem. Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] EPS Font Fix - new walkthrough w/files
Richard Yates wrote: [snip]> As far as I can tell ANY substitution of one or more instances of Maestro for TTC7B00 somehow messed up Arial and Times. Any idea what this means? It means that Makemusic should put back some developers onto the Finale development team instead of putting them on the Smartmusic development team! I'm really tired of Finale's growing ineptitude, and the increase of bugs with each version instead of the expected decrease. If Sibelius weren't worse to use than Finale (for me -- many users, including long-time Finale users, find Sibelius better to use) I would have completely jumped ship long ago. As it is (perhaps Makemusic realizes this and is attempting to use it to minimize development dollars while maximizing income) I'm stuck with the junk that Makemusic is producing these days and praying that somehow it'll improve. All the while, I am waiting for another notation program which will allow me to work as I want to (the way Finale does) without all the problems which seem to grow worse with each new release of Finale. -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] EPS Font Fix - new walkthrough w/files
On Friday, Jul 9, 2004, at 19:43 America/Vancouver, Richard Yates wrote: My last post had an error. My original singl001.EPS file did NOT display Times New Roman and Arial correctly. Both showed as Courier. I looked further. The EPS listing has 'Times-Roman' and 'Helvetica' neither of which are on my system. If I search-and-replace 'Helvetica' with 'Arial' then Arial displays correctly. If I search-and-replace 'Times-Roman' with 'Times New Roman' there is an error message that Photoshop cannot parse the file. If I search-and-replace 'Times-Roman' with any other opentype font with that has only a single word in its name it displays correctly! It seems that font names with spaces are a problem. I think there's a 'display' name and an actual PostScript name. On our Macs it's "TimesNewRomanPSMT" exported from Text Editor. Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
