Completely different issue than a file extension. And that is a OS 9 and
before thing, so, maybe 6 years ago that would be a fair dig. But it's
about as outdated now as Floppy disks. Oh, but Windows still uses
those
You can read up on OS X via Wikipedia or even
http://arstechnica.com/r
At 10:58 PM 10/1/06 +0200, Daniel Wolf wrote:
>And one more test: I compiled a Postscript listing of the same score in
>Finale
Does Finale 2007 allow custom page sizes for compiling? Up through 2006,
you could put custom sizes in the height and width boxes, but it would only
use what was select
At 01:24 PM 9/30/2006, David W. Fenton wrote:
>Curiously enough, my understanding is that the next version of OS X
>as well as Windows Vista will offer a similar feature in their
>default configurations (though it's not going to be implemented
>exactly the same way -- it's going to allow file ver
On the Mac side, I've had a good, though still limited experience with the
freeware PDFLab. Someone on this list may have originally brought it to my
attention. I also just discovered, in answer to my question from about a
week ago, that it can print a watermark in the background, either text or
On Sep 30, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 30 Sep 2006, at 4:28 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
Does that mean you cannot force another app to open any file on
Mac? Or is
the 'sticky' association more of a convenience?
The latter. I can, for instance, drag my Finale files t
Thank you Noel and Bruce, and Dennis! I passed your information along. -
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On Sep 30, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Bruce K H Kau wrote:
Aloha,
I had some lead sheets that I had typed in the notes in (regular
size), and added the lyrics. Later on, I had decided that a certain
set of notes (in layer 2, it turns out), needed to be in cue size.
So, I went to Mass Mover, chang
I am now trying the method David describes below for the first time,
and I find that it works pretty well but for the fact that the beams
are un-editable in the parts. (Special Tools will not move them.)
Since the beam placement is done in the score with two or more notes
on the stem, the
And one more test: I compiled a Postscript listing of the same score in
Finale (3.58 MB) and then converted it with FreePDF, file size 105KB,
with PDF Creator, 106KB, and with Adobe Acrobat 114.
Daniel Wolf wrote:
Just for fun, I generated a PDF of a Finale 2007 Windows score with
three dif
Just for fun, I generated a PDF of a Finale 2007 Windows score with
three different PDF programs, called up as printers within Finale. I
see no major differences in the quality of the documents, but, for
whatever it's worth, there are differences in the sizes of the files:
with Adobe Acroba
On 30 Sep 2006, at 4:28 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 03:47 PM 9/30/06 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote:
It's just a little smarter about it than Windows -- it knows which
applications can open which file types. If I change the file
extension of a Finale document to ".doc", it will still ope
At 03:47 PM 9/30/06 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote:
>It's just a little smarter about it than Windows -- it knows which
>applications can open which file types. If I change the file
>extension of a Finale document to ".doc", it will still open in
>Finale, not Word. If I change the file extens
Aloha,
I had some lead sheets that I had typed in the notes in (regular size),
and added the lyrics. Later on, I had decided that a certain set of
notes (in layer 2, it turns out), needed to be in cue size. So, I went
to Mass Mover, changed the note size, and the lyrics shrunk, too!
I know i
Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
A couple of months ago, we discussed how radically things were changed
by the advent of desktop publishing.
One of the biggest reasons I'm afraid to just publish my editions on
my own has been one of being practical.
I don't know how distribution works, or if you have a
For creating PDFs in Windows, I've settled on PDF Creator at
http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/
Free, Open Source, not nagware, and very easy to setup and use. It will
also install Ghostscript for you.
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 01:45 AM 9/30/06 -0500, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
To prov
On 30 Sep 2006, at 3:42 PM, Richard Yates wrote:
What you
have to know is different between Mac and Windows, but you still
have
to have certain knowledge to keep things running smoothly.
Not true at all.
Now this is simply disingenuous. How many years did I hear Mac
folks tell
each oth
Friends:
Christopher wrote advocating automatically checking for updates; the
same facility he describes for MAC is available in Windows, too, so that
if one wants have checking for updates automatic, it can be done. I
prefer not to have it done automatically, and while I do not necessarily
On 30 Sep 2006, at 3:31 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Not true at all. You stated above that the Mac has metadata that
keeps track of things. So, even though I have .BAK word and .BAK
Finale and other files, the Mac OS can open the right program to
run them. Hell, you can even get rid of the ex
> > What you
> > have to know is different between Mac and Windows, but you still have
> > to have certain knowledge to keep things running smoothly.
> >
> Not true at all.
Now this is simply disingenuous. How many years did I hear Mac folks tell
each other to 'rebuild the desktop' or to something
Will Denayer wrote:
Thank you everyone, Now it makes sense again. However, I do not seem
to be able to open a BAK.file (I can't find it inside Finale and when
I click on the icon, Windows says that it cannot open the document but
that it can look up the program on the net. When I click OK, noth
David W. Fenton wrote:
No, learn how to use your Windows machine.
Yes, the Mac has metadata and keeps data about file creator and which
application to use to open it, which means multiple apps can use the
same file assocation (at least, it used to be that way -- did OS X's
UNIX origins remove
On 30 Sep 2006, at 2:47 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:It's hard to figure out what's best for these kinds of choices, especially when one OS has a top-level PREFERENCES menu. Is that a standard Mac UI convention? I haven't used Mac enough to know.There is no top-level "Preferences" menu in OS X.There i
On 30 Sep 2006 at 15:07, Scott Jones wrote:
> Even fewer steps... right click the file and choose OPEN WITH and
> then choose Finale200x version that you wish to open it with. If it
> is a finale Bak it will show Finale as an option to open it with.
That's right click on WinXP and Win2K3 Serv
Even fewer steps... right click the file and choose OPEN WITH and
then choose Finale200x version that you wish to open it with. If it
is a finale Bak it will show Finale as an option to open it with.
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Band/Orchestra Di
On 30 Sep 2006 at 14:34, Darcy James Argue wrote:
> So yes, on Mac, the Program Options menu is found in the standard
> place for all Preferences in OS X. On Windows, it's in the Edit menu
> (which seems logical enough to me, but I'm not a Windows user).
It's not a Windows standard. "Preference
On 30 Sep 2006, at 2:19 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
I didn't mean to imply that Finale used the OS-specific convention
for placement of a preferences dialog -- I only said that this was
the kind of menu option that it was *appropriate* for there to be
differences between Mac and Windows.
Yes, a
At 11:37 AM 9/30/06 -0400, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
>I'm curious if anyone knows anyone who has used this service? Or has any
>feedback or thoughts on it?
Just a followup ... it was Lightning Source in Tennessee.
https://www.lightningsource.com/
Dennis
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On 30 Sep 2006 at 14:00, Darcy James Argue wrote:
> On 30 Sep 2006, at 1:25 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
>
> > I was wondering exactly when MM started forking the menus in Windows
> > and Mac so they weren't the same. That seems a disastrous decision
> > to me, unless it only applies to something l
At 11:37 AM 9/30/06 -0400, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
>I'm curious if anyone knows anyone who has used this service? Or has any
>feedback or thoughts on it?
I have used on-demand printing for this book, which I edited and designed:
http://www.amazon.com/Marching-Browns-Ghost-Civil-Rights/dp/0965932
On 30 Sep 2006 at 19:59, dc wrote:
> David W. Fenton écrit:
> >I haven't tried linked parts, but can't you set it to the right
> >location in the score, then ctrl-drag in the score (which I'd assume
> >would unlink it) to the correct location for the score? That would
> >mean moving it only once.
On 30 Sep 2006, at 1:25 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
I was wondering exactly when MM started forking the menus in Windows
and Mac so they weren't the same. That seems a disastrous decision to
me, unless it only applies to something like PREFERENCES which are
traditionally EDIT | PREFERENCES on Mac
On 30 Sep 2006, at 1:51 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Yes, the Mac has metadata and keeps data about file creator and which
application to use to open it, which means multiple apps can use the
same file assocation (at least, it used to be that way -- did OS X's
UNIX origins remove that?).
Yes. OS
On 30 Sep 2006 at 10:40, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
> David W. Fenton wrote:
> > On 30 Sep 2006 at 8:29, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
> >
> >> Um, Windows. Go figure...
> >>
> >> Try renaming the file from .BAK to .MUS. That will work. If the BAK
> >> file is in the same directory as the original .MUS
Yes, it is ridiculous. On a Mac when you double click the backup file,
it opens with FinaleHowever, on my XP machine, if you double
click on a .BAK file, it opens with Word.
Life is too short. Get a Mac.
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 30 Sep 2006 at 8:29, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Um, Win
On 30 Sep 2006 at 8:23, Chuck Israels wrote:
> Just got up and read the list posts. I was wondering where I had
> gone wrong, and what Noel found wanting in my suggestions to Will. I
> have been using Finale for so long that I operate a lot of it on a
> subconscious level, making it a slow pr
On 30 Sep 2006 at 7:26, Christopher Smith wrote:
> Upon installation (at least in the Mac version) you are asked if you
> want to periodically check for updates. If you answered yes, and your
> computer is connected to the Internet constantly as many are these
> days, then you will be informed
On 30 Sep 2006 at 8:29, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
> Um, Windows. Go figure...
>
> Try renaming the file from .BAK to .MUS. That will work. If the BAK
> file is in the same directory as the original .MUS file, rename one of
> them like Mygreatscore_bak.mus or Mygreatscore_oldmus.mus
This just rid
On 30 Sep 2006 at 7:30, Christopher Smith wrote:
> On Sep 30, 2006, at 4:27 AM, dc wrote:
>
> > Apologies if I'm stating something obvious, but I just realized,
> > after complaining about the the placement of measure numbers in
> > linked parts, that one could unlink them by simply selecting
No, no, no. In the open dialog box in Finale just use the dropdown menu to
show All Files instead of only .mus files. It will open fine without
anything as complicated as changing the extension. The reason Windows
doesn't know how to open it is that many applications use the 'bak'
extension, not ju
A couple of months ago, we discussed how radically things were changed by the advent of desktop publishing.
One of the biggest reasons I'm afraid to just publish my editions on my own has been one of being practical.
I don't know how distribution works, or if you have a website on the Internet, w
Using FinWin2k4. Working on a piece with lyrics (never my favorite) and
suddenly all of my expressions and lyrics vanish.
Any idea why this might happen?
Any clue as to how to recover, other than manually?
Thanks!
cd
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http://www.livejournal.com/users/dershem/#
Have you tried changing the .BAK extension to .MUS?
On 30 Sep 2006, at 17:23, Will Denayer wrote:
Thank you everyone, Now it makes sense again. However, I do not
seem to be able to open a BAK.file (I can't find it inside Finale
and when I click on the icon, Windows says that it cannot open th
Um, Windows. Go figure...
Try renaming the file from .BAK to .MUS. That will work. If the BAK file
is in the same directory as the original .MUS file, rename one of them
like Mygreatscore_bak.mus or Mygreatscore_oldmus.mus
Will Denayer wrote:
Thank you everyone, Now it makes sense again
Just edit the extension so that it is .mus and Finale will open it fine.
Christopher
On Sep 30, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Will Denayer wrote:
Thank you everyone, Now it makes sense again. However, I do not
seem to be able to open a BAK.file (I can't find it inside Finale
and when I click on the i
Just got up and read the list posts. I was wondering where I had
gone wrong, and what Noel found wanting in my suggestions to Will. I
have been using Finale for so long that I operate a lot of it on a
subconscious level, making it a slow process to remember and identify
what I do when I n
Thank you everyone, Now it makes sense again. However, I do not seem to be able to open a BAK.file (I can't find it inside Finale and when I click on the icon, Windows says that it cannot open the document but that it can look up the program on the net. When I click OK, nothing happens). It's jus
On 30 Sep 2006, at 3:27 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
Will Denayer wrote:
Hello All,
I am completely new to Finale. I bought Finale 2007 just a couple
of days ago.
Congratulations, Dr. Denayer. I think you will find you have
acquired top-flight notation software.
I find myself respectfull
Michael Cook wrote:
If you drag-select with the mouse, making sure that the first thing that
is covered by the dragging rectangle is a measure number, only measure
numbers should be selected.
That's good news but it only works for the measure numbers on a single
page, then, so the effort wo
dc wrote:
dhbailey écrit:
When I select the measure tool and hit ctrl-a, all the handles,
including the barlines, are selected. And while barlines aren't
affected by up-down nudging, they are affected by left-right nudging,
so if I chose to shift the numbers left-right, barlines (and thus som
If you drag-select with the mouse, making sure that the first thing
that is covered by the dragging rectangle is a measure number, only
measure numbers should be selected.
On 30 Sep 2006, at 14:17, dhbailey wrote:
I was just wondering if there was a way to select ONLY the measure
number han
dc wrote:
dhbailey écrit:
How does one select all the measure numbers and no other measure-tool
handles?
Ctrl A seems to select all the measure numbers and nothing else. But
what other handles do you have, besides the two or three attached to
each measure, which aren't affected by nudging?
At 01:45 AM 9/30/06 -0500, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
>To provide some balance to David and Dennis, my preferred method of
>generating ~.pdf files in windows [XP Home (SP2) is to use a driver for
>a postscript printer to generate a ~.ps file, then to use Ghostview /
>Ghostscript [GV/GS] to convert
Apologies to the list for that meaningless reposting -- I had meant to
close without sending and my brain is only half awake so I hit the wrong
button.
Oops.
David H. Bailey
dhbailey wrote:
Randolph Peters wrote:
Darcy Argue wrote:
I'm talking about performance, specifically Mac performance
Christopher Smith wrote:
On Sep 30, 2006, at 4:27 AM, dc wrote:
Apologies if I'm stating something obvious, but I just realized, after
complaining about the the placement of measure numbers in linked
parts, that one could unlink them by simply selecting them all and
dragging them down (or u
Randolph Peters wrote:
Darcy Argue wrote:
I'm talking about performance, specifically Mac performance. AU
performance is objectively much better than performance via an
external host, like Garritan Studio -- AU supports greater polyphony
with fewer dropouts and less distortion on the same syst
On Sep 30, 2006, at 4:27 AM, dc wrote:
Apologies if I'm stating something obvious, but I just realized,
after complaining about the the placement of measure numbers in
linked parts, that one could unlink them by simply selecting them
all and dragging them down (or up).
Really? That's so
On Sep 30, 2006, at 3:27 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
Will Denayer wrote:
Hello All,
I am completely new to Finale. I bought Finale 2007 just a couple
of days ago.
I would also recommend periodically checking in at the MakeMusic!
website; two or three times a year, there are maintenanc
Will Denayer wrote:
Hello All,
I am completely new to Finale. I bought Finale 2007 just a couple of
days ago.
Congratulations, Dr. Denayer. I think you will find you have acquired
top-flight notation software.
I find myself respectfully disagreeing with Chuck: you can specify which
view y
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