[Finale] Re: importing Score files into Finale

2009-04-25 Thread Michael Good
Hi Bonnie, If Finale's Score import isn't working for you on some files, you might want to try Jan de Kloe's SipScoreToXML program. This is a Windows program that converts Score files into MusicXML files, which you can then import into Finale. Jan could probably answer your question about the .ham

RE: [Finale] importing Score files into Finale

2009-04-25 Thread Howey, Henry
There is a SCORE to MusicXML app: http://www.dekloe.be/Music%20Engraving%20Software.htm Now if you know a SCORE owner/user? Henry Howey Professor of Music Sam Houston State University Box 2208 Huntsville, TX 77341 (936) 294-1364 http://www.shsu.edu/music/faculty/howey.php Owner of F

Re: [Finale] importing Score files into Finale

2009-04-25 Thread David W. Fenton
On 25 Apr 2009 at 10:35, Allen Fisher wrote: > I recommend either scanning or entering from scratch Doesn't Score produce Postscript output? Seems to me that you could output from Score to PS, create PDFs and then use SmartScore and get a pretty good result. I've had reasonably useful results w

[Finale] re: Importing Score files into Finale

2009-04-25 Thread Bonnie Janofsky
David & Allen, Thanks! I am a Mac user, but a friend of mine is an electrical engineer and PC expert and has multiple PC's and has offered to give me one to use. The composer doesn't want to pay to have his score re-entered and now has someone who uses Score that is interested in completing hi

Re: [Finale] importing Score files into Finale

2009-04-25 Thread shirling & neueweise
the cost of Score plus the learning curve -- it's quite different from any of the Windows notation programs the version she has of these files is not windows, a disastrous windows version did however finally just come out. i don't know much about it, but it may be possible to move the file

RE: [Finale] importing Score files into Finale

2009-04-25 Thread Howey, Henry
SHARPEYE is 90+ % accurate. If the old SCORE:-) is transposing you simply use the proper clefs for transposition. Henry Howey Professor of Music Sam Houston State University Box 2208 Huntsville, TX 77341 (936) 294-1364 http://www.shsu.edu/music/faculty/howey.php Owner of FINALE Discus

Re: [Finale] 2K4c to 2K7 (Mac)

2009-04-25 Thread Christopher Smith
On Apr 25, 2009, at 7:10 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: I recently started using 2K7. My previous version was 2K4c. Recently, I opened a file that I had created in 2K4c using 2K7. The result was less than perfect...Double bars were missing, final bar lines were missing, 1st and 2nd endin

Re: [Finale] importing Score files into Finale

2009-04-25 Thread Allen Fisher
I recommend either scanning or entering from scratch, having not seen the score, I would probably reenter it. Score is really frustrating to get installed (it is a DOS program) much less learn for one project; there's not much demand for it these days On Apr 25, 2009, at 6:45 AM, dhbailey w

Re: [Finale] importing Score files into Finale

2009-04-25 Thread dhbailey
Bonnie Janofsky wrote: There is an opera where the first third of it is already input in Score, the old notation program for PC. Has anyone tried inputting Score files into Finale? Was there much editing to do? In the import menu, Score is listed. I was given very old Score files which of cou

[Finale] 2K4c to 2K7 (Mac)

2009-04-25 Thread Lawrence David Eden
I recently started using 2K7. My previous version was 2K4c. Recently, I opened a file that I had created in 2K4c using 2K7. The result was less than perfect...Double bars were missing, final bar lines were missing, 1st and 2nd endings were missing. When I say "missing" I mean that the specia

[Finale] importing Score files into Finale

2009-04-25 Thread Bonnie Janofsky
There is an opera where the first third of it is already input in Score, the old notation program for PC. Has anyone tried inputting Score files into Finale? Was there much editing to do? In the import menu, Score is listed. I was given very old Score files which of course did not open in Fin