Re: [Finale] to upgrade or not to upgrade

2004-04-21 Thread Harold Owen
Martin Bsanner writes: Darcy, Thanks for the tip. Have you had the opportunity to use the "smart hypen" capability? I have had so many discussions with Randy Stokes over the years about including this, since I use Finale exclusively with choral music (I have nearly 90 published modern performi

Re: [Finale] to upgrade or not to upgrade

2004-04-21 Thread Johannes Gebauer
If you do not depend on EPS files (both import and export) then you should upgrade. Finale 2004 has a wealth of new features which you will love, and it runs native in OS X actually making it much more stable. It is still slow. However, for me this is now mostly the reaction to some of the keyboar

Re: [Finale] to upgrade or not to upgrade

2004-04-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 21 Apr 2004, at 04:23 PM, Martin Banner wrote: Darcy, Thanks for the tip. Have you had the opportunity to use the "smart hypen" capability? I have had so many discussions with Randy Stokes over the years about including this, since I use Finale exclusively with choral music (I have nearly 9

Re: [Finale] to upgrade or not to upgrade

2004-04-21 Thread Martin Banner
Darcy, Thanks for the tip. Have you had the opportunity to use the "smart hypen" capability? I have had so many discussions with Randy Stokes over the years about including this, since I use Finale exclusively with choral music (I have nearly 90 published modern performing editions of 18th Cen

Re: [Finale] to upgrade or not to upgrade

2004-04-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 20 Apr 2004, at 05:55 PM, Martin Banner wrote: I have been using Finale 2003 on my Mac quite satisfactorily, thank you, for well over a year, even on my brand new Powerbook laptop. I've been considering upgrading to FinMac 2004, but have seen all the posts here about bug after bug after bug.

Re: [Finale] to upgrade or not to upgrade

2004-04-20 Thread JohnBlane
In a message dated 4/20/04 5:42:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I really like 2004, but I admit that I haven't had a whole lot of time to delve into its new features.  The biggest problem that exists at this point is the inability to save EPS files. I've been waiting to hear from anyone - can

Re: [Finale] to upgrade or not to upgrade

2004-04-20 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On 4/20/04 2:55 PM, Martin Banner wrote: > I have been using Finale 2003 on my Mac quite satisfactorily, thank > you, for well over a year, even on my brand new Powerbook laptop. [snip] > With the 2004 updates, have most of the bugs been fixed to run Finale > in OSX on a Mac powerbook? I really l

[Finale] to upgrade or not to upgrade

2004-04-20 Thread Martin Banner
I have been using Finale 2003 on my Mac quite satisfactorily, thank you, for well over a year, even on my brand new Powerbook laptop. I've been considering upgrading to FinMac 2004, but have seen all the posts here about bug after bug after bug. Since I would be using 2004 in OSX on my laptop,