[Finale] Microsoft SP2 update and Win Finale 2005

2004-09-06 Thread drjazz00
Has anyone installed SP2 after Winfin 2005 has been installed... If so, are there any problems with Winfin 2005 after installing SP2??? Thanks... ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Ties

2004-09-06 Thread Mark D Lew
And: forgot to mention this: options/doc. opt./music spacing/minimum distance between tied notes... Do you have a suggestion for what a good setting for that would be? I use 48 evpu. That's assuming zero for H Tie Placement for inner ties. mdl ___ Final

Re: AW: [Finale] new copy behavior

2004-09-06 Thread Lon Price
On Sep 6, 2004, at 1:05 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Well, what exactly is the work around then?? In a copy of the score used only for part extraction, convert *all* measure expressions to note expressions before extracting parts. (Turning on "Show expressions for extracted parts" helps here.)

Re: [Finale] new behavior

2004-09-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 06 Sep 2004, at 05:11 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: Ah, that's a lot more clear. "Maximise" actually means "make it as small as possible and still show everything." D'oh! And yet (replying to myself) in Finale, hitting the green button make the window full screen, no matter the size of the pag

Re: [Finale] Ties

2004-09-06 Thread Jane Frasier
Do you have a suggestion for what a good setting for that would be? Jane On Sep 6, 2004, at 1:28 PM, Klaas de Jong wrote: And: forgot to mention this: options/doc. opt./music spacing/minimum distance between tied notes... cheers. kdj From: Klaas de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Finale] new behavior

2004-09-06 Thread Christopher Smith
On Sep 6, 2004, at 3:43 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: On Sep 6, 2004, at 2:39 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: In Preview, the green maximize button zooms the window width to fit the width of the document at your current magnification level -- which is completely consistent with the way this button ha

Re: [Finale] Spacing problem WinFin2k3

2004-09-06 Thread Klaas de Jong
Hello Michael, You should experiment with the values in: options/doc.options/music spacing/spacing widths. I could replicate your results in finmac2k3, when the the bottom button was activated and the reference value was 1024; making this smaller, 512 gave an acceptable result and also choosing the

Re: [Finale] FinMac2K4c PDF Mystery

2004-09-06 Thread Eric Dannewitz
First, make sure he has a current version of Acrobat. At least version 5. Second, make sure you have all the fonts installed on Finale 2004. They had an update to fix PDF printing. If you do a preview, that should give you an idea of what it looks like. And if you open the PDF you print with the

Re: AW: [Finale] new copy behavior

2004-09-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
Okay, there seems to be a lot of confusion here. I did not understand the extent of the problem when I first posted, because Chuck and Lon were talking about two different things. Chuck was talking about copying from one Finale document to another, and Lon was talking about copying within a s

[Finale] FinMac2K4c PDF Mystery

2004-09-06 Thread Neal Gittleman
Here's an interesting one... I'm working on a project in FinMac2k4c running on System 10.3.5. I'm currently without a printer, so created a PDF via OSX's "Save as PDF" option and e-mailed that file to my orchestra librarian for him to print out on his printer. When he did, every empty bar pri

Re: [Finale] new behavior

2004-09-06 Thread Christopher Smith
On Sep 6, 2004, at 2:39 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 06 Sep 2004, at 02:21 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: Preview also opens PDFs in a three-inch window (in Panther on my machine), which I have to resize manually every time. I can't find a way to change this behaviour. Preview -> Preferences ->

Re: [Finale] Ties

2004-09-06 Thread Klaas de Jong
And: forgot to mention this: options/doc. opt./music spacing/minimum distance between tied notes... cheers. kdj > From: Klaas de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 20:44:18 +0200 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Finale] Ties > > Hello Jane, >

AW: [Finale] new copy behavior

2004-09-06 Thread lists
> > On 06 Sep 2004, at 10:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This is complete nonsense! There are very good reasons to use measure > > attached expressions with stafflists. Anywhere where you want an > > expression to appear on different staves in the score and the parts > > measure attached e

Re: [Finale] more OSX annoyances

2004-09-06 Thread David W. Fenton
On 6 Sep 2004 at 5:38, Dennis W. Manasco wrote: > As far as I can tell your work with Finale is the most important thing > that you do with your computer. Placing your Finale data files in your > root directory allows you to select them for work or backup with a > minimal number of clicks -- just

Re: [Finale] new behavior

2004-09-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 06 Sep 2004, at 02:21 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: On Sep 6, 2004, at 2:00 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Well, Preview is is the default PDF reader in OS X because Preview is far, far superior to Adobe Acrobat/Adobe Reader, which has become atrocious bloatware. Preview launches quickly and ren

Re: [Finale] new behavior

2004-09-06 Thread Christopher Smith
On Sep 6, 2004, at 2:00 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Well, Preview is is the default PDF reader in OS X because Preview is far, far superior to Adobe Acrobat/Adobe Reader, which has become atrocious bloatware. Preview launches quickly and renders pages quickly -- like, about *ten times* faster

Re: [Finale] Spacing problem WinFin2k3

2004-09-06 Thread Mark D Lew
On Sep 6, 2004, at 8:37 AM, Michael Withers wrote: I guess we're all fairly used to some of Finale's quirks in spacing accidentals in layers, but I'm at a loss to know what is causing the two problems in this example. In bar 4, the Layer 2 Bb is touching the second note in Layer 1. I would have

Re: [Finale] Spacing problem WinFin2k3

2004-09-06 Thread Christopher Smith
On Sep 6, 2004, at 11:37 AM, Michael Withers wrote: Dear list experts, I'd be very grateful if anyone can find the time to take a quick look at this spacing example: http://www.michaelwithers.f2s.com/SpacingTest.gif I guess we're all fairly used to some of Finale's quirks in spacing accidentals i

Re: [Finale] new behavior

2004-09-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
Well, Preview is is the default PDF reader in OS X because Preview is far, far superior to Adobe Acrobat/Adobe Reader, which has become atrocious bloatware. Preview launches quickly and renders pages quickly -- like, about *ten times* faster than Adobe Reader 6. On the other hand, Adobe Reade

Re: [Finale] semi OT - which soft and fonts used for latest Sher's New Real Books?

2004-09-06 Thread Christopher Smith
On Sep 6, 2004, at 4:05 AM, themark wrote: I wonder if someone has investigated and found out which notation software and fonts were used to make those wonderfully written New Real Books from Sher company.   I would guess Finale and a mix of fonts (Sigler's swing) or even a custom made set of fon

Re: [Finale] new behavior

2004-09-06 Thread Christopher Smith
On Sep 6, 2004, at 2:22 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Lon, Have you tried selecting all the User Manual PDF files in the Finder, selecting "Get Info," and changing the "Open With" to Adobe Reader (/Acrobat Reader)? If your default PDF reader for these files is Preview (instead of Adobe Reader

Re: [Finale] new behavior

2004-09-06 Thread Lon Price
On Sep 5, 2004, at 11:22 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Lon, Have you tried selecting all the User Manual PDF files in the Finder, selecting "Get Info," and changing the "Open With" to Adobe Reader (/Acrobat Reader)? If your default PDF reader for these files is Preview (instead of Adobe Reade

Re: AW: [Finale] new copy behavior

2004-09-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 06 Sep 2004, at 10:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is complete nonsense! There are very good reasons to use measure attached expressions with stafflists. Anywhere where you want an expression to appear on different staves in the score and the parts measure attached expressions are in fact v

[Finale] Spacing problem WinFin2k3

2004-09-06 Thread Michael Withers
Dear list experts, I'd be very grateful if anyone can find the time to take a quick look at this spacing example: http://www.michaelwithers.f2s.com/SpacingTest.gif I guess we're all fairly used to some of Finale's quirks in spacing accidentals in layers, but I'm at a loss to know what is causing

Re: [Finale] new copy behavior

2004-09-06 Thread Chuck Israels
Lon, Darcy, Robert, et al, Sometimes I don't know how to accomplish something in Finale, but I am not so quick to identify my shortcomings as faults in the program. In this case, Lon has described the aberrant behavior clearly, and it sure is an inconvenient change - and a "bug" in my book. Ther

AW: [Finale] new copy behavior

2004-09-06 Thread lists
This is complete nonsense! There are very good reasons to use measure attached expressions with stafflists. Anywhere where you want an expression to appear on different staves in the score and the parts measure attached expressions are in fact very important. My tempo indications like "Allegro" et

Re: [Finale] new behavior

2004-09-06 Thread Godofredo Romero
Why dont you reinstall your copy of Finale 2005, this cures a lot of illnesess. First uninstall the application. Godofredo Lon Price wrote: and oh, by the way: I can't get the User Manual to open in FinMac 2005. And before everyone starts spamming me with "select the correct folder in the Prog

Re: [Finale] more OSX annoyances

2004-09-06 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 1:32 pm -0400 9/4/04, Andrew Stiller wrote: One thing you _should_ be actively doing about permissions is repairing them. ... Thanks very much for this advice. You're welcome. Having to mess around with permissions repair and essential cache deletions aren't things users should have to do unl

[Finale] semi OT - which soft and fonts used for latest Sher's New Real Books?

2004-09-06 Thread themark
I wonder if someone has investigated and found out which notation software and fonts were used to make those wonderfully written New Real Books from Sher company.   I would guess Finale and a mix of fonts (Sigler's swing) or even a custom made set of fonts made for Sher engravers?   Who knows