[Finale] Re: QuickTime

2003-11-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 07:36 PM, Bonnie Harris wrote: Darcy, I thought of that, and searched for FreeMIDI, but turned up no files. I'll look again, maybe it's buried in classic env. somewhere. You should have FreeMIDI extensions that you will need to delete or disable. You should

Re: [Finale] PDF to finale?

2003-11-17 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 17.11.2003 20:14 Uhr, Reuven wrote > Is there a way to import .pdf notation files into Finale? > > There are so many music notation files in the pdf format > that importation into Finale should become a standard feature! Hardly possible. A PDF does not store the information in a format that c

Re: [Finale] Saving paper

2003-11-17 Thread Al Graves
If you have a postscript printer you can save each file as a eps file then place them in a word processing file. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] PDF to finale?

2003-11-17 Thread Philip Aker
On Monday, Nov 17, 2003, at 12:00 US/Pacific, Brad Beyenhof wrote: on 11/17/03 11:14 AM, Reuven wrote: Is there a way to import .pdf notation files into Finale? It is my impression that .pdf files are intended to be immutable "digital hard copies," with the INTENT that they are not editable by a

Re: [Finale] piano fingerings

2003-11-17 Thread Richard Huggins
Center them one directly on top of the other above whichever note is lined up with the beat, with the top number applying to the top note. Anything else would be confusing and non-standard. Richard H. > From: "d. collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:03:11 +0100 > To: [EMAIL PR

Re: [Finale] PDF to finale?

2003-11-17 Thread Brad Beyenhof
on 11/17/03 11:14 AM, Reuven wrote: > Is there a way to import .pdf notation files into Finale? It is my impression that .pdf files are intended to be immutable "digital hard copies," with the INTENT that they are not editable by a notation program or word processor or anything. It's an "intellec

Re: [Finale] PDF to finale?

2003-11-17 Thread Editions New Rochelle
Reuven I haven't yet found a way to import pdf into Finale, though I know of a way to do the reverse, sort of. If you Print To File, setting your printer to General Post Script Printer, you can export Finale files to Adobe Illustrator, which then can be saved as EPS, PDF, etc Watch o

[Finale] QuickTime

2003-11-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 04:46 AM, Bonnie Harris wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if QuickTime 6.0.3 works OK with Finale 2002 in Classic 9.2? I recently downloaded an automatic upgrade , which I thought would just be QT 6.4 for OSX, but I think it may have replaced the version I had work

[Finale] PDF to finale?

2003-11-17 Thread Reuven
Hi all:   Is there a way to import .pdf notation files into Finale?   There are so many music notation files in the pdf format that importation into Finale should become a standard feature!     ps - how is Musitek's SmartScore faring with regards to ease and accuracy    of importing not

Re: [Finale] Saving paper

2003-11-17 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
d. collins wrote: I have a couple hundred music examples I need to print out and proofread. Most of them are one line only, and each is in a separate file. Is there any easy way I could get several on the same sheet of paper? depends upon how you define "easy". One way is to devide the system

Re: [Finale] Saving paper

2003-11-17 Thread Mr. Liudas Motekaitis
Try: Set up as many of the one-liners as you can on your screen and then print the resulting screen shot. Liudas - Original Message - From: "d. collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 7:15 PM Subject: [Finale] Saving paper > I have a couple h

Re: [Finale] copying staff names

2003-11-17 Thread Robert Patterson
I think SS will do what you need. It copies the staves by position, not by number. So if 4 staves exist in the source and 4 in the target, the names and positions in the target should be overwritten with those from the source. d. collins wrote: Robert Patterson écrit: With Settings Scrapbook,

Re: [Finale] copying staff names

2003-11-17 Thread Robert Patterson
Neither. Staff Styles can easily be transferred with libraries, but I don't know about their metatools. d. collins wrote: Brad Beyenhof écrit: Robert Patterson's "Settings Scrapbook" plug-in is invaluable for this sort of thing. Can Robert's plug-in copy staff styles and staff-style metatools

[Finale] hard disk problems

2003-11-17 Thread Raymond Horton
Belated thanks to all who offered advice on my recent problems transferring WinFin files from a problem hard disk. I followed several suggestions (at one point making the classic mistake of changing more than one one parameter at once, so I am not really sure what helped) which salvaged many, if n

Re: [Finale] copying staff names

2003-11-17 Thread Robert Patterson
With Settings Scrapbook, you can't copy the names without also copying the staves. But SS will only add as many staves as necessary. Were you planning somehow to use the names *without* the staves? Finale's UI doesn't seem well-suited to this. d. collins wrote: Brad Beyenhof écrit: Robert Pat

Re: [Finale] White Text Background

2003-11-17 Thread Philip Aker
On Monday, Nov 17, 2003, at 05:55 US/Pacific, Johannes Gebauer wrote: That is not necessary, at least in 2k3, any expression can be made to have an opaque background. I use this quite often for "cresc." to break barlines. Hard to tell if Keith is using 2K1 or not. Was this feature really only

Re: [Finale] White Text Background

2003-11-17 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 17.11.2003 13:09 Uhr, Philip Aker wrote >> That is not necessary, at least in 2k3, any expression can be made to >> have an opaque background. I use this quite often for "cresc." to >> break barlines. > > Hard to tell if Keith is using 2K1 or not. Was this feature really only introduced after

RE: [Finale] copying staff names

2003-11-17 Thread Brad Beyenhof
Robert Patterson's "Settings Scrapbook" plug-in is invaluable for this sort of thing. - Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday, November 17, 2003 1:53 AM, d. collins asked: > Is there any way to copy staff names (along with their font and their > default position) from one file

Re: [Finale] White Text Background

2003-11-17 Thread Philip Aker
On Monday, Nov 17, 2003, at 02:22 US/Pacific, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Tidying up a Fin 2001 score, I wish to add text- but almost like a sticky label- i.e. text on a white background which hides whatever >>> it is placed on-be it staves, or leger lines or whatever. I know it's do-able- but how?

Re: [Finale] chant entry

2003-11-17 Thread David H. Bailey
Thanks -- a bit pricey for a font I wouldn't use very often, but for people working in authentic chant notation it would be wonderful. David John.Howell wrote: http://www.saintmeinrad.edu/abbey/liturgic.htm About halfway down the page. John John, Would you please post a URL for us to che

Re: [Finale] White Text Background

2003-11-17 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 17.11.2003 10:14 Uhr, Philip Aker wrote >> Tidying up a Fin 2001 score, I wish to add text- but almost like a >> sticky label- i.e. text on a white background which hides whatever it >> is placed on-be it staves, or leger lines or whatever. > >> I know it's do-able- but how? > > You can use a

[Finale] QuickTime

2003-11-17 Thread Bonnie Harris
Hi, Does anyone know if QuickTime 6.0.3 works OK with Finale 2002 in Classic 9.2? I recently downloaded an automatic upgrade , which I thought would just be QT 6.4 for OSX, but I think it may have replaced the version I had working with Classic, too. Otherwise I may have spoken too soon on t

Re: [Finale] White Text Background

2003-11-17 Thread Philip Aker
On Sunday, Nov 16, 2003, at 16:09 US/Pacific, helgesen wrote: Tidying up a Fin 2001 score, I wish to add text- but almost like a sticky label- i.e. text on a white background which hides whatever it is placed on-be it staves, or leger lines or whatever. I know it's do-able- but how? You can use

Re: [Finale] White Text Background

2003-11-17 Thread Mr. Liudas Motekaitis
Check "Opaque" in the settings for your text expression definition. If you don't want the border to be seen, make its thickness = 0. Liudas - Original Message - From: "helgesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Finale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 2:09 AM Subject: [Finale