Re: [Finale] You might smile. The bug bit me :-(

2005-10-29 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 29 Oct 2005 at 17:06, A-NO-NE Music wrote: At this point, I am quite sure all of this is related to the legacy temp file system Finale uses. I thought Finale 2006 was the first to *abandon* the old temp file system for in memory temporary data? That was what makes

Re: [Finale] You might smile. The bug bit me :-(

2005-10-29 Thread David W. Fenton
On 29 Oct 2005 at 17:06, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > At this point, I am quite sure all of this is related to the legacy > temp file system Finale uses. I thought Finale 2006 was the first to *abandon* the old temp file system for in memory temporary data? That was what makes the saves faster, I tho

Re: [Finale] PDFs on OSX

2005-10-29 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 29 Oct 2005, at 6:31 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: On the subject of PDFs, I read this in the OSX-The Missing Manual. It says that the PDFs created from the OSX print dialogue are screen-optimised—that is, they look best on screen, but not necessarily in print. They also said that to get

[Finale] PDFs on OSX

2005-10-29 Thread Christopher Smith
On the subject of PDFs, I read this in the OSX-The Missing Manual. It says that the PDFs created from the OSX print dialogue are screen-optimised—that is, they look best on screen, but not necessarily in print. They also said that to get them to work well in print, you need to buy Acrobat as y

Re: [Finale] PDFs

2005-10-29 Thread Christopher Smith
On Oct 28, 2005, at 10:33 AM, Charles Small wrote: Hello, I'm happily using Finale 2000c on Mac OS 9.1. Now I need to be able to save files as PDFs. I'm told that unless I splurge for a computer running OS X, my only option is GhostScript. So I've downloaded GhostScript and its companion Ma

Re: [Finale] You might smile. The bug bit me :-(

2005-10-29 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Hiro, Did you send a report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please let them know, if you haven't already. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/djargon Brooklyn, NY On 29 Oct 2005, at 5:06 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: The bug which deletes partial note entries bit me. Finally! Ye

[Finale] You might smile. The bug bit me :-(

2005-10-29 Thread A-NO-NE Music
The bug which deletes partial note entries bit me. Finally! Yes, I deserve humiliation. But, thanks to a few people reported and warned on this list, I immediately went back to the last saved version, and my loss was quite minimal. Another thing is I never turn on auto save in any apps in my li

Re: [Finale] Bug report - Slurs between layers between systems - 2006PC

2005-10-29 Thread Andrew Stiller
I'm curious about how others do this. Do you always use layer 1 if there's no second layer? For me the only exception is to accomodate ties across barlines (layer two ties across while layer one ceases). In organ music, you often need as many as three layers--sometimes all four--to manage tie

Re: [Finale] Bug report - Slurs between layers between systems - 2006PC

2005-10-29 Thread Rafael L. Junchaya
I'm afraid I cannot replicate this bug. I'm on Finale 2006 for Windows. Did you mean subsequent "staves" instead of "systems" maybe? Are those into the same staff group?   Rafael J Subject: [Finale] Bug report - Slurs between layers between systems - 2006PC Good morning!  Just discover

Re: [Finale] PDFs

2005-10-29 Thread Javier Ruiz
Yes, it is the way to go if you don´t have Mac OS X or Acrobat... The last version that I remember to have used is 2.8 [Mmmm, don´t you wanna upgrade to Mac OS 9.2.2?] Javito, (who once promised never to move to Mac OS X ;) > > Hello, I'm happily using Finale 2000c on Mac OS 9.1. > Now I need

Re: [Finale] Bug report - Slurs between layers between systems - 2006PC

2005-10-29 Thread Mark D Lew
On Oct 28, 2005, at 1:38 PM, John Bell wrote: But layers do not necessarily indicate voices -- they have no inherent musical meaning at all. Setting aside how one feels on the general debate about when to use layers and when to use voices -- and I can certainly see that not everyone in the

Re: [Finale] Bug report - Slurs between layers between systems - 2006PC

2005-10-29 Thread Mark D Lew
On Oct 28, 2005, at 3:08 PM, Lon Price wrote: How about in a piano part, where in one measure a note needs to be in layer 2, but there's no need to do layers in the next measure--all notes are layer 1.  This happens to me all the time when writing piano music, and so far this bug hasn't bitten