So here is the next one after a complaint by myself. I must admit I find
it unacceptable that a company openly admits that we pay for unfinished
software, and that the upgrade costs are for bug fixes. Imagine I bought
a car and the wiper wasn't working, would I expect to pay for it being
On Jun 19, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Upgrade costs for Finale are designed not only to introduce new
features, but also to resolve defects
Well, what this statement says to me is that Finale is worth, maybe…
$10.
But then again, maybe less.
They have constantly
This is, of course, bullshit. The PDF problems exist with Acrobat
dating back version 7. The problem is with Finale 2009.
On Jun 19, 2009, at 12:41 PM, MM wrote:
This incompatibility was initially introduced by an update that
Adobe had released for Acrobat.
Surely I'm not the only one that uses Finale successfuly on a regular basis?
Sure, the program has had its shortcomings, but overall it is an incredibly
useful tool that has helped me pay the bills many times. I don't want to go
back to pencil and paper, and I've not had success with my
Below is MakeMusic's reply on my complaint about a Finale 2008 bug that
makes the program quit unexpectedly upon launch. It is caused by the
rearranging the main tool palete in a vertical position, and the only fix is
the trashing of the preferences file.
This answer is a lie,
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Gary Dunhammusic_man1...@hotmail.com wrote:
Sorry JD, but I remain a defender of Finale as the best notation software out
there... and I think there must be many others out there who agree with me.
Score users say the same thing.
And that program is a
Bill Maher summed up the situation very well on a recent edition of
his weekly show:
Americans will do anything to each other for money.
Cynical but true, and that is a shame; but why else does MM release
buggy versions of Finale?
At 15:11 +0200 18/06/09, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On
As far as I know, this bug has not been fixed, even in 2010, probably
because it is seen by MM as a minor annoyance that can be avoided
simply by not reconfiguring the tool pallet. I can't begin to relate
how long this one plagued me, before MM figured out where the problem
was. I leave
To be honest Gary, I'm glad it's working for you, and that you feel
positive about it. Surely there are others. I'm not one of them; I
used to be, but they started losing me gradually but steadily about 8
years ago.
But judging from the comments I read here, and elsewhere, the dissent
