Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread dhbailey
Aaron Sherber wrote: [snip] Right. Haven't you ever used Distiller or PDF95 or some other PDF printer driver? It looks to your system exactly like a printer. If this site lets you print to your physical printer, there's nothing to stop you from printing to PDF instead. And even if you get one

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Cecil Rigby
David Bailey wrote: It's just the temerity of Hal Leonard in charging the same for music where we do the difficult part of printing as they do for music where they do the printing and have the tax issues of physical inventory in the warehouse and the expense of warehouse personnel to pick the

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Cecil Rigby
Our church has a CCLI license, and I decided to see if printing to PDF from their site would work. CCLI presents their hymn sheets through Flash, and though I received a message that the player was causing a slowdown of the program, Distiller still printed to a PDF perfectly. Does

[Finale] pdf softward

2007-12-02 Thread Martin Banner
With all this discussion about pdf, is there a free pdf program for the Mac that I can download, one that is reliable, easy to use, and good quality program, specifically so that I can create a pdf from Finale? I have Adobe Reader on my mac, so I can read pdfs, but I can't create a pdf at

Re: [Finale] pdf softward

2007-12-02 Thread Christopher Smith
On Dec 2, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Martin Banner wrote: With all this discussion about pdf, is there a free pdf program for the Mac that I can download, one that is reliable, easy to use, and good quality program, specifically so that I can create a pdf from Finale? I have Adobe Reader on my

Re: [Finale] pdf softward

2007-12-02 Thread Jari Williamsson
Martin Banner wrote: With all this discussion about pdf, is there a free pdf program for the Mac that I can download, one that is reliable, easy to use, and good quality program, specifically so that I can create a pdf from Finale? I have Adobe Reader on my mac, so I can read pdfs, but I can't

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:12 AM 12/2/2007, Cecil Rigby wrote: Our church has a CCLI license, and I decided to see if printing to PDF from their site would work. CCLI presents their hymn sheets through Flash, and though I received a message that the player was causing a slowdown of the program, Distiller still

Re: [Finale] pdf softward

2007-12-02 Thread Martin Banner
I am using Finale 2003a, which works only in Classic. Is the pdf print capability still available to me this way? Martin On Dec 2, 2007, at 9:34 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: On Dec 2, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Martin Banner wrote: With all this discussion about pdf, is there a free pdf program

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Christopher Smith
On Dec 2, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Cecil Rigby wrote: Our church has a CCLI license, and I decided to see if printing to PDF from their site would work. CCLI presents their hymn sheets through Flash, and though I received a message that the player was causing a slowdown of the program, Distiller

Re: [Finale] Smart shape and different time sigs

2007-12-02 Thread Robert Patterson
On Dec 1, 2007 3:43 PM, Giuliano Forghieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can think of several situations where that would not be neither quick nor painless, What I mean is that the actual process of creating the tuplets is quick and painless. If you are thinking of situations where the actual

Re: [Finale] pdf softward

2007-12-02 Thread Martin Banner
Do these work on a Mac computer? Doing a quick look online at Print2PDF, the requirements list only Windows, not Mac. Martin On Dec 2, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Carlberg Jones wrote: Print2PDF Martin Banner [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale mailing

[Finale] creating pdf's in classic

2007-12-02 Thread Martin Banner
Anyone know how to save as a pdf in classic on a Mac? I can save in OSX, but I do my Finale work in Finale 2003a, and don't get the save as pdf when I get ready to print, like I do when I am in OSX...Any tips? Thanks, Martin Martin Banner [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] pdf softward

2007-12-02 Thread Carlberg Jones
At 10:15 AM -0500 12/2/07, Martin Banner wrote: I am using Finale 2003a, which works only in Classic. Is the pdf print capability still available to me this way? Yes. There are several shareware programs which work through the Chooser to create PDF files. Print2PDF is one. -- Carlberg

Re: [Finale] pdf softward

2007-12-02 Thread Robert Patterson
Martin Banner wrote: I am using Finale 2003a, which works only in Classic. Is the pdf print capability still available to me this way? Print the document to a ps file. Then open the ps file with Preview and save it as PDF. It works great. I do this all the time because I still use MacWord

Re: [Finale] pdf softward

2007-12-02 Thread Carlberg Jones
At 10:56 AM -0500 12/2/07, Martin Banner wrote: Do these work on a Mac computer? Doing a quick look online at Print2PDF, the requirements list only Windows, not Mac. I used it for years on OS9 and Classic. I did not check to see what platform's available now. Did you try versiontracker.com?

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Mark McCarron
I thought Finale had given up on Finaleviewer in favor of Notepad. Mark McCarron --- Noel Stoutenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Wolf wrote: Trying to figure out the future of Finale -- and MakeMusic's plans for the product -- without any concrete internal information is more like

Re: [Finale] Smart shape and different time sigs

2007-12-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Sun, December 2, 2007 10:56 am, Robert Patterson wrote: What I mean is that the actual process of creating the tuplets is quick and painless. If you are thinking of situations where the actual process of creating the tuplets is not quick or painless, I'd like to know what they are. If you

Re: [Finale] Smart shape and different time sigs

2007-12-02 Thread Robert Patterson
Giuliano Forghieri wrote: Also, I'm used to do precision work for high quality publishing, and linked parts are, as far as I'm concerned, useless. I doubt if anyone is more exacting than I am about engraving quality, and I find linked parts, on the contrary, to be incredibly useful. The

Re: [Finale] Smart shape and different time sigs

2007-12-02 Thread Giuliano Forghieri
At 16.56 02/12/2007, Robert Patterson wrote: If you choose a source measure that has only the invisible tuplet for that meter, Mass Copy will copy it repeatedly to every measure. Since any measure that has music has an entry at the beginning of the measure, the copy is quick and painless, qed.

Re: [Finale] Smart shape and different time sigs

2007-12-02 Thread Robert Patterson
First of all, we are talking about a workaround. No workaround is as convenient as not having to work around. Second, we are talking about different time signatures where the barlines align, so effectively it is a shorthand for tuplets anyway, right? Third, my contention is that for a host

Re: [Finale] creating pdf's in classic

2007-12-02 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Actually, let me amend this. You need either Acrobat that works in OS 9, or you could, I think, compile postscript listings from Finale and then use a more recent version of Acrobat Distiller to make PDF files. I think that would work. Or you can, if I remember correctly, select LaserWriter

Re: [Finale] creating pdf's in classic

2007-12-02 Thread Eric Dannewitz
You need to find an older version of Adobe Acrobat. Maybe check eBay Martin Banner wrote: Anyone know how to save as a pdf in classic on a Mac? I can save in OSX, but I do my Finale work in Finale 2003a, and don't get the save as pdf when I get ready to print, like I do when I am in

[Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Daniel Wolf
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:00:10 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today (the first of December 2007), I received another tea leaf: for the first time, a bit of advertisement for Finale 2008 from the Finale dealer here in Germany. This is an astonishly late date for this notice Do you mean the

[Finale] Monitor question

2007-12-02 Thread David Froom
Hello all, I'd like to request some advice about monitors. I am looking at buying a new monitor to replace my desk-hog, an old Apple Studio 21 CRT. The Dell 24 LCD (2407WFP) looks appealing, especially because it has a stand with 90° built in to the stand. In the old days, I used to

Re: [Finale] Monitor question

2007-12-02 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi David, My Samsung 243T 24 - just replaced (and sold) by a wonderful (can't recommend it highly enough, for anyone who can scrape up the not inconsiderable cash) Apple 30, had a pivoting stand, and it had more than enough vertical space in portrait orientation. I think they have been

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:19 PM 12/2/2007, dc wrote: Aaron Sherber écrit: It doesn't matter. If you have a PDF app like Acrobat that looks to your system like a printer, anything that lets you print to a printer will also let you print to a PDF. Not in my experience. I once tried to print Scorch files (that offered

Re: [Finale] Smart shape and different time sigs

2007-12-02 Thread Jari Williamsson
Robert Patterson wrote: A further comment about the problems with Ind. Key sigs. ...or independent time sigs. ;-) Anyway, I now finally understand what Dennis BK is trying to achieve (first I thought it was a piece with non-aligned barlines) and I absolutely agree with you, Robert. Since

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Yeah, you can't print Scorch files (like from musicnotes.com) to PDF. So, anything is not quite true. dc wrote: Aaron Sherber écrit: It doesn't matter. If you have a PDF app like Acrobat that looks to your system like a printer, anything that lets you print to a printer will also let you

RE: [Finale] installation problem

2007-12-02 Thread G GRIFFITHS
Please say how -I've just done exactly the same thing. Gary -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dc Sent: 02 December 2007 11:39 To: finale@shsu.edu; finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] installation problem dc écrit: After switching to XP,

Re: [Finale] Monitor question

2007-12-02 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I have two Dell 22 LCD monitors. Very nice. Make sure you run them with DVI, as the picture becomes even more clear and you can really take advantage of the highest resolution. David Froom wrote: Hello all, I'd like to request some advice about monitors. I am looking at buying a new monitor

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Mark McCarron wrote: I thought Finale had given up on Finaleviewer in favor of Notepad. For individuals, this is correct. The name has been revived for e-commerce applications, where a publisher licenses certain server software side software to use in commercial destribution. It is no

[Finale] Triplet settings (default)

2007-12-02 Thread Chuck Israels
My triplet defaults are set: always flat; avoid staff. That seems fine, unless the triplet is close enough to the staff that the number is displaced to the avoid staff distance and the broken bracket is not. In this case, the number/bracket relationship is skewed (vertically), and I have

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:51 PM 12/2/2007, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Yeah, you can't print Scorch files (like from musicnotes.com) to PDF. So, anything is not quite true. I'm curious about this. Is there somewhere I can try playing with a Scorch file, for a buck or two? Aaron.

RE: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Richard Yates
In Windows, the Print dialog box, where you select a printer, has a checkbox for 'Print to file' Aaron Sherber écrit: That would surprise me, but I believe you. I wonder what would happen if you picked a real printer that was set up to print to file. I'd try it out but how do you set a real

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:11 PM 12/2/2007, dc wrote: Aaron Sherber écrit: That would surprise me, but I believe you. I wonder what would happen if you picked a real printer that was set up to print to file. I'd try it out but how do you set a real printer to print to a file? I think you're on Windows, right? For

RE: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:41 PM 12/2/2007, Richard Yates wrote: There's a $.99 piece on this page:  Okay. Well, that Scorch plugin is pretty smart. The Print to File checkbox is grayed out, and if I choose Adobe PDF as my printer I do get the message that printing to file is not allowed. Same is true if I

RE: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Richard Yates
There's a $.99 piece on this page: http://www.sheetmusicdirect.us/search/browseByStyle.do?browseByStyle=Classic al I'm curious about this. Is there somewhere I can try playing with a Scorch file, for a buck or two? Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Musicnotes.com Aaron Sherber wrote: At 03:51 PM 12/2/2007, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Yeah, you can't print Scorch files (like from musicnotes.com) to PDF. So, anything is not quite true. I'm curious about this. Is there somewhere I can try playing with a Scorch file, for a buck or two? Aaron.

Re: [Finale] pdf softward

2007-12-02 Thread Mark D Lew
On Dec 2, 2007, at 7:44 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: Martin Banner wrote: I am using Finale 2003a, which works only in Classic. Is the pdf print capability still available to me this way? Print the document to a ps file. Then open the ps file with Preview and save it as PDF. It works