Re: [Finale] Expand bug? (FinWin2004a)

2003-12-14 Thread Richard Huggins
First, this is not a bug. Optimization only should be done when you're essentially through with the layout, including which measures will be on which systems. (If you're expanding staves, you're not through with layout.) In other words, lay it out just as if the empty staves will be part of the fi

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 14 Dec 2003, at 02:03 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: Darcy: (Have you even tried Fin 3.2 in Panther's Classic?) I haven't done *anything* in Panther Classic, because every time the OS wants to go there, I get alerts to the effect that various of my utilities need to be changed to some other vers

[Finale] Expand bug? (FinWin2004a)

2003-12-14 Thread James Gilbert
Piano piece, all systems had been previously optimzied: Mass select all of top staff (page or scroll view), '2' meta-key to expand. (Settings for expand: to 2 staves, 1 note each staff, extra notes in bottom, new staves created below existing ones). Do expansion. Instead of now having 4 staves,

Re: [Finale] Panther Classic (was: Aaargh... More delays)

2003-12-14 Thread Robert Patterson
For disk and volume problems, there's a bunch of programs you can't depend on, and there is Disk Warrior. Disk Warrior will solve your disk problems or else tell you why it can't. (I've never seen it fail to fix these kinds of problems, and I've seen plenty of them.) For Classic, I highly recom

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-14 Thread Philip Aker
On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 11:03 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: After installing Panther, System 9 started alerting me that my catalog file was busted. I "fixed" it with Disc Doctor (which found and corrected a number of things, but I'm still getting the busted-catalog alert), whereupon OSX st

Re: [Finale] Installing 2004 with only 64 MB Ram?

2003-12-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Dec 2003 at 10:43, Brad Nelson wrote: > I am seeking confirmation that the problem may have been directly > related to installing 2004 (which requires 128MB ram) on a computer > with only 64MB ram. I can't conceive of a reason why your described problems would be caused by low RAM. Either

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Dec 2003 at 9:50, Philip Aker wrote: > On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 08:47 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > > > With Panther I can now see that I actually get a lot more from OS X > > than I would ever have got from an updated OS 9. > > That was always the goal of OS X. It was perhaps diff

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Dec 2003 at 6:30, Dennis W. Manasco wrote: > At 4:40 pm -0500 12/13/03, David W. Fenton wrote: > > >Basically, Microsoft has backwards compatibility down. > > Yeah. > > Right. > > Much of the rest of your message either apologizes for Microsoft's > ineptitude at providing adequate backwa

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 14.12.2003 20:03 Uhr, Andrew Stiller wrote > I haven't done *anything* in Panther Classic, because every time the > OS wants to go there, I get alerts to the effect that various of my > utilities need to be changed to some other version in order to work > well in the Classic environment. I am p

Re: [Finale] Installing 2004 with only 64 MB Ram?

2003-12-14 Thread Brad Nelson
Tobias, Thanks for responding so quickly. I have replaced the printer cable, tried the printer on another computer system (worked fine), reformatted the hard drive and did a clean install of Win98se, tried different printer drivers, etc.  I have not yet tried b) below, and will try to see if that

Re: [Finale] Installing 2004 with only 64 MB Ram?

2003-12-14 Thread Tobias Giesen
> Without thinking, I installed Finale 2004 on an older computer > with only 64 MB of ram. Is this what's causing my printer > to print intermittent gibberish on word-processed documents > as well as Finale scores? No. 64 MB RAM is plenty. It also has hardly anything to do with printing. I wo

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
Darcy: (Have you even tried Fin 3.2 in Panther's Classic?) I haven't done *anything* in Panther Classic, because every time the OS wants to go there, I get alerts to the effect that various of my utilities need to be changed to some other version in order to work well in the Classic environmen

[Finale] Installing 2004 with only 64 MB Ram?

2003-12-14 Thread Brad Nelson
Without thinking, I installed Finale 2004 on an older computer with only 64 MB of ram.  Is this what's causing my printer to print intermittent gibberish on word-processed documents as well as Finale scores? Also, I can't seem to uninstall Finale 2004 with either the Finale uninstall utility or i

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-14 Thread Philip Aker
On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 08:47 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: With Panther I can now see that I actually get a lot more from OS X than I would ever have got from an updated OS 9. That was always the goal of OS X. It was perhaps difficult to see how the merging of OS 9, NeXT, and Unix would

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Until about three weeks ago I felt pretty similar to you about OS X. However, Panther has changed this, and for that very reason I am actually glad that the release date was not before but after the Panther release date. It would have been absolute desaster if Finale had come out Jaguar compatible

Re: [Finale] Cannot Create Font DC

2003-12-14 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 09:07 AM 12/14/03 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >WinFin2004 >Windows 98SE >Since upgrading to WinFin2004 I have had several lockups associated with >the following dialogue: >Cannot Create Font DC >Has anyone else seen this? The dialogue box has an OK button but usually >the result is a restart

Re: [Finale] Cannot Create Font DC

2003-12-14 Thread David H. Bailey
I'm using Win98se and have not seen that error message. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WinFin2004 Windows 98SE Since upgrading to WinFin2004 I have had several lockups associated with the following dialogue: Cannot Create Font DC Has anyone else seen this? The dialogue box has an OK button but usual

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-14 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 4:40 pm -0500 12/13/03, David W. Fenton wrote: Basically, Microsoft has backwards compatibility down. Yeah. Right. Much of the rest of your message either apologizes for Microsoft's ineptitude at providing adequate backwards-compatibility or blames the creators of 'incompatible' software.

[Finale] Cannot Create Font DC

2003-12-14 Thread saxomal
WinFin2004 Windows 98SE Since upgrading to WinFin2004 I have had several lockups associated with the following dialogue: Cannot Create Font DC Has anyone else seen this? The dialogue box has an OK button but usually the result is a restart. -- Malcolm Miles -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does ex