Re: [Finale] Files and Printing
Bruce E. Clausen wrote: Novice question: I'm working in FinWin06 and getting ready to print score and parts for a quartet, four movement work. Each movement is a separate file. Am I better off printing files separately or creating one super file with all movements included? Which would make printing easier? Thanks for your help in advance. I've always found it easier to keep all the movements in a single file. I'm not sure if the extra work of combining the movements into a single file might not be more work than printing them as is, but it is something to keep in mind for your next project. Printing is always easier if you only have to click PRINT one time to get a complete score or a complete part, rather than having to click it four times. -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Files and Printing
Bruce E. Clausen wrote: Novice question: I'm working in FinWin06 and getting ready to print score and parts for a quartet, four movement work. Each movement is a separate file. Am I better off printing files separately or creating one super file with all movements included? Which would make printing easier? Your question actually gets to a workflow issue. One of the hardest things to do in Finale is to combine two movements which exist as separate files into one larger ones; it is hard enough to combine two files, that I make the decision which way I am going to do this before I create a file, and once the decision is made, I don't revisit it. If the project already exists as four separate files, I'd go ahead and work with what you have. Printing four scores, and four sets of parts is (in my experience anyway) orders of magnitude less challenging and stressful than trying to combine four movements which already exist as separate files into a single file. I did a nine movement work (albeit a choral score) as nine separate files, and combined the files in the process of printing which resulted in a 24 page booklet, printed two up on tabloid (11 x 17 inch) paper. I'm not sure what I would do on a four movement work for quartet. I've done them, and I've done them both as a large file, and as four shorter ones. Which method I would choose would depend upon a number of considerations, including (but not limited to) length of the work; whether and how the work is to be bound; and number of text, lyric, articulation, and expression items. ns ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Files and Printing
Thanks David and Noel. BC - Original Message - From: Noel Stoutenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 2:19 AM Subject: Re: [Finale] Files and Printing Bruce E. Clausen wrote: Novice question: I'm working in FinWin06 and getting ready to print score and parts for a quartet, four movement work. Each movement is a separate file. Am I better off printing files separately or creating one super file with all movements included? Which would make printing easier? Your question actually gets to a workflow issue. One of the hardest things to do in Finale is to combine two movements which exist as separate files into one larger ones; it is hard enough to combine two files, that I make the decision which way I am going to do this before I create a file, and once the decision is made, I don't revisit it. If the project already exists as four separate files, I'd go ahead and work with what you have. Printing four scores, and four sets of parts is (in my experience anyway) orders of magnitude less challenging and stressful than trying to combine four movements which already exist as separate files into a single file. I did a nine movement work (albeit a choral score) as nine separate files, and combined the files in the process of printing which resulted in a 24 page booklet, printed two up on tabloid (11 x 17 inch) paper. I'm not sure what I would do on a four movement work for quartet. I've done them, and I've done them both as a large file, and as four shorter ones. Which method I would choose would depend upon a number of considerations, including (but not limited to) length of the work; whether and how the work is to be bound; and number of text, lyric, articulation, and expression items. ns ___ 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] Files and Printing
Friends: I would elaborate my earlier comments just a bit. I wrote that I make the decision as to whether I'm going to do individual or separate files before entering a note. I've not yet run into the case where I couldn't decide which way I wanted to do it, but if I thought there was any chance at all that I might change my mind, I'd opt for a single large file. My report that it is stressful and challenging to combine four files into one; it is trivial to divide one file into four. ns ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
