Re: [Finale] File formats - PDF files

2002-06-18 Thread Paul Delcour
Found it! I checked a different box and put Petru Type1 font in my fontfolder as well. Now it looks perfect. And small too. A PDF file of one page of music now is only just 36 Kb. Thanks very much. Now on to the tedious job of checking all my scores for little mistakes and flaws before process

RE: [Finale] File formats - PDF files

2002-06-18 Thread Wiz-of-Oz
Linda Worsley wrote: > To all these comments about the huge size of pdfs... There is a known Finale2002/2003 PS printing bug, that makes PDFs so large. Finale 2001 produces very small PS output (which means small PDFs) Please, send a request for a fix to Coda. (mention "OwnPs=0 option in finale

Re: [Finale] File formats - PDF files

2002-06-18 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 18.06.2002 19:13 Uhr, Paul Delcour wrote > I have checked: download all needed fonts (translated from Dutch so it > may read a bit different in an English OS). I then choose: save as file. In the postscript driver there are two places where you can choose to download fonts, only one seems to

Re: [Finale] File formats - PDF files

2002-06-18 Thread Philip Aker
On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at 10:13 AM, Paul Delcour wrote: > Thanks for all your kind help Johannes. Since several people > have reported this should work, I will persevere in finding out > how to. > > I have checked: download all needed fonts (translated from > Dutch so it may read a bit d

Re: [Finale] File formats - PDF files

2002-06-18 Thread Paul Delcour
Thanks for all your kind help Johannes. Since several people have reported this should work, I will persevere in finding out how to. I have checked: download all needed fonts (translated from Dutch so it may read a bit different in an English OS). I then choose: save as file. Then opening in M

Re: [Finale] File formats - PDF files

2002-06-18 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 18.06.2002 16:15 Uhr, Paul Delcour wrote > Hi Johannes, > > I got the MacGhostView and the Adobe PDF printerdriver, but no go. > MacGhostView says it cannot find or cannot open the fotn Petrucci which > Finale uses to make the noteheads etc. There is something in the docs > about converting f

Re: [Finale] File formats - PDF files

2002-06-18 Thread Philip Aker
On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at 07:35 AM, Javier Ruiz wrote: > Yes, Philip, that´s what I have used and I am still far to get > a good PDF > file. Somehow the crochets (?) of the eighth notes don’t fit > perfectly with > the stems. > I have used both Apple and Adobe drivers to make the PS file.

Re: [Finale] File formats - PDF files

2002-06-18 Thread Javier Ruiz
Yes, Philip, that´s what I have used and I am still far to get a good PDF file. Somehow the crochets (?) of the eighth notes don¹t fit perfectly with the stems. I have used both Apple and Adobe drivers to make the PS file. [Absolutely irrelevant, please skip it: Well, Corea won Italy and now will

Re: [Finale] File formats - PDF files

2002-06-18 Thread Paul Delcour
Hi Johannes, I got the MacGhostView and the Adobe PDF printerdriver, but no go. MacGhostView says it cannot find or cannot open the fotn Petrucci which Finale uses to make the noteheads etc. There is something in the docs about converting fonts so that MacGhostView can see them and use them,

Re: [Finale] File formats - PDF files

2002-06-18 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 18.06.2002 12:54 Uhr, Javier Ruiz wrote > Well, I have got mixed results, so my remark. > > But I should give it a try now during my 5 month holiday period. Here is some additional info for Ghostscript on Mac: There are two different implementations of Ghostscript for Mac. The one I use is

Re: [Finale] File formats - PDF files

2002-06-18 Thread Philip Aker
On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at 03:54 AM, Javier Ruiz wrote: Javier, What you want is MacGhostView which comes with a scriptable droplet/application for both OS X and old systems. It is called "macps2pdf" and puts a wrapper on GhostScript so you don't have to do anything but drag the PostScrip

Re: [Finale] File formats - PDF files

2002-06-18 Thread Philip Aker
On Monday, June 17, 2002, at 07:02 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > Is anybody getting smaller PDF sizes than me or Linda? One way to reduce PDF file size is to minimize the number of fonts and embedded graphics a document contains. Also, data like pitchbends can take a lot of bytes. Phili

Re: [Finale] File formats - PDF files

2002-06-18 Thread Javier Ruiz
Well, I have got mixed results, so my remark. But I should give it a try now during my 5 month holiday period. Back to the sofa. Javier. > On 17.06.2002 18:06 Uhr, Javier Ruiz wrote > >> 2) Ghostcript, the free solution. Also difficult to manage. > > It's not really difficult to manage. > >

Re: [Finale] File formats - PDF files

2002-06-18 Thread Javier Ruiz
Estimada Linda, You have said this two times, that you post sound files in your web site. But for that you need all the permissions from the performers, and if it is an orchestra must be very difficult. Am I wrong in this? (And please don¹t get too angry with me ;) Javier Ruiz. > Which is w

Re: [Finale] File formats - PDF files

2002-06-18 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 9:07 PM 06/17/02, Linda Worsley wrote: >Nevertheless, I'm also interested in any other numbers people might >come up with. My PDFs of Finale files are averaging about 20K per page. That's piano-vocal music with four systems per page. I'm using Acrobat 3 (which I inherited from my mother whe