Re: [Finale] Re: TGTools version 2.34a

2007-02-17 Thread David Horne
combined with sheer power of your plugins are forcing me to thoroughly investigate how I can stick with Finale. They're that good! Ouch- is that a recent Faber requirement? David -- David Horne | www.davidhorne.net www.boosey.com/horne tel:+44(0)161-236-3126|mobile:+44(0)7922-157352

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007 under Rosetta (Mac)

2006-11-12 Thread David Horne
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:30:26 -0800, Eric Dannewitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So, there is this rather serious bug in Finale 2007 running under an intel mac. You can't edit the system margins, or the page margins using the Menus (IE: Page Layout-Page Margins-Edit Page Margins). But, if you

Re: [Finale] another linked parts nuissance

2006-11-12 Thread David Horne
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:16:37 +0100, dc [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Johannes Gebauer écrit: As far as I can tell there is no way to show or hide accidentals in the parts and score separately. I hadn't thought about this before, but this is really annoying in one situation: Tied notes should not

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007

2006-06-29 Thread David Horne
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:21:17 +, Robert Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Owain Sutton: Put me in the cynic camp Oh come on. Fin07 offers perhaps the single biggest enhancement in the history of the product (linked parts) and all anyone can think of is to whine about the

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007

2006-06-29 Thread David Horne
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:49:07 -0400, Dan Carno [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi David, After extracting parts, apply the Blank Notation staff style to the cue measures in the score. Provided you apply the style only to the layer that holds the cue, you only need to move the default rest to the

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007

2006-06-29 Thread David Horne
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:54:16 -0700 (PDT), Tyler Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [] Just to be sure we're on the same page, if a measure in the score should be completely blank except for a default whole rest, you would use the new staff style, blank notation with rests on that measure in the

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007

2006-06-29 Thread David Horne
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:50:36 +, Robert Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I don't think I can optimise a staff on a particular page if it has this staff style applied, which would be an issue. Is there a way around that? Using TGTools, you can optimize any staff no matter what's

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007

2006-06-29 Thread David Horne
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:37:52 +, Robert Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I use some of TGTools' features constantly, but not this one! In case you haven't already figured it out, I was referring to the Staff List Manager. (The name is misleading, but it is really about staff

Re: [Finale] finale pdf printing problem (again)

2006-04-24 Thread David Horne
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:25:33 +0200, Michael Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The problem with the missing middle slash of the tremolo is due to a fault in the Maestro font. If you open the font in a font editor you can see that there are in fact three copies of the middle slash superimposed.

[Finale] finale pdf printing problem (again)

2006-04-22 Thread David Horne
I just received a copy of a score from my publishers this morning, and noticed that two and three line tremolo markings (originally using Maestro) haven't printed correctly. The two line tremolo only has one line, and the three line tremolo, two- the middle one 'missing' so it looks a little odd.

Re: [Finale] finale pdf printing problem (again)

2006-04-22 Thread David Horne
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:25:43 +0200, Bettina Crimmins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi David, I have the same problem when printing with a Xerox DocuPrint N2825 printer. My workaround is to use the petrucci tremolo symbols. I'm using WinFin 2006 and PDFs also look fine. Best wishes,

Re: [Finale] finale pdf printing problem (again)

2006-04-22 Thread David Horne
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:54:26 +0200, Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 22.04.2006 David Horne wrote: I just received a copy of a score from my publishers this morning, and noticed that two and three line tremolo markings (originally using Maestro) haven't printed correctly

[Finale] Finale Demo

2005-08-29 Thread David Horne
Just noticed that the Demo is now available. Is there anything I should be careful of prior to installation? I currently have Fin 2005, and I'm on Mac OS X 10.4.2. This may be an upgrade I skip- there don't seem to be enough notation enhancements which interest me. Also, I'm not sure about the

Re: [Finale] Finale Demo

2005-08-29 Thread David Horne
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 22:29:46 +0200, Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 21:48 Uhr David Horne wrote: This may be an upgrade I skip- there don't seem to be enough notation enhancements which interest me. Also, I'm not sure about the performance on my G4 powerbook. However, I'm

Re: [Finale] problem with extracting parts in Mac OS X Tiger?

2005-06-05 Thread David Horne
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 11:29:39 -0400, A-NO-NE Music [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [] Tiger might not be cache clean. I have two applications that slows down terribly by running process intensive task outside of the app, and the app doesn't regain its performance until relaunching. One of them is a

Re: [Finale] problem with extracting parts in Mac OS X Tiger?

2005-06-04 Thread David Horne
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 03:46:57 -0400, A-NO-NE Music [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: David Horne / 2005/06/04 / 08:21 PM wrote: Since upgrading to Tiger (10.4.1) Finale freezes whenever I try to extract a fairly big part from a file, say more than 300 bars. I've actually upgraded the RAM (now have

Re: [Finale] problem with extracting parts in Mac OS X Tiger?

2005-06-04 Thread David Horne
On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 12:20:24 +0200, Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You don't say whether you did a permissions repair yet. Did you? I recently fixed a friends Mac, which completely froze after a few minutes every time, and after it had been to the shop for a check up. After I

Re: [Finale] problem with extracting parts in Mac OS X Tiger?

2005-06-04 Thread David Horne
On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 13:50:17 -0400, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [] The proof would be to test part extraction in a file of similar length. If the problem occurs at about the same place, then it's probably not data-based (unless both files coincidentally happen to have a problem

Re: [Finale] Re: problem with extracting parts in Mac OS X Tiger?

2005-06-04 Thread David Horne
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 18:04:57 -0400, shirling neueweise [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: mac mini 1.42/1G, 10.3.9, Fin2005 777 measures, 80+ individual instruments (strings 4 layers/parts to a stave) i did a mixture of individual part (piccolo, bass clarinet, synth) and section extraction

[Finale] problem with extracting parts in Mac OS X Tiger?

2005-06-03 Thread David Horne
Since upgrading to Tiger (10.4.1) Finale freezes whenever I try to extract a fairly big part from a file, say more than 300 bars. I've actually upgraded the RAM (now have 768MB on a 1.33 G4 PB) since upgrading the OS. I never had a problem with this in Panther, and am a bit puzzled. Any idea what

Re: [Finale] problem with extracting parts in Mac OS X Tiger?

2005-06-03 Thread David Horne
On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:39:27 -0400, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 4 Jun 2005 at 1:21, David Horne wrote: Since upgrading to Tiger (10.4.1) Finale freezes whenever I try to extract a fairly big part from a file, say more than 300 bars. I've actually upgraded the RAM (now have

Re: [Finale] Secondary Beams

2005-05-31 Thread David Horne
On Tue, 31 May 2005 10:15:50 -0400, Neal Gittleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [] Any suggestions on how I can get those secondary beams to connect either by giving me another step to do or by suggesting a different overall strategy for note entry? This may not be a very elegant solution- but

Re: [Finale] OT: Firefox

2005-05-15 Thread David Horne
On Sun, 15 May 2005 10:38:58 -0400, Andrew Stiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On May 15, 2005, at 6:20 AM, Eden - Lawrence D. wrote: Andrew, Check which version of Firefox you downloaded. If you are using an OS 9x version that requires a reboot, you would do well to download the OSX

[Finale] odd spacing problems in Fin Mac 2005

2005-04-04 Thread David Horne
I notice that Finale will not always space individual measures correctly- specifically it will ignore certain accidentals, causing them to be crushed tothether. It seems quite random. FWIW, this is something I've noticed in all versions I've used in the last few years, but its infrequency has

Re: [Finale] odd problem with ps files, pdfs in os x

2005-03-14 Thread David Horne
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:32:53 -0500, Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi David, Have you checked to see if you have multiple versions of the Finale fonts installed in multiple locations on your HD? It may be that you still have the old Fin2004 fonts (with the PDF issues)

Re: [Finale] odd problem with ps files, pdfs in os x

2005-03-14 Thread David Horne
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:22:37 -0600, Robert Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I notice David said he was on 10.3.5. That would suggest to me that he hasn't run Software Update to get to 10.3.8. (The actual OS version is available from About this Mac in the apple menu.) I don't know if this

Re: [Finale] odd problem with ps files, pdfs in os x

2005-03-14 Thread David Horne
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 05:15:47 -0500, Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 14 Mar 2005, at 4:42 AM, David Horne wrote: Just to confirm the problem still persists in 2005b. OK, I've tried some tests and this problem seems consistent on my set up. I'd be interested to know

Re: [Finale] odd problem with ps files, pdfs in os x

2005-03-14 Thread David Horne
Just one final thing before I go! :) When I create similar (i.e. combination of quaver and crotchet triplets) _non_ engraver tuplets, the problem doesn't arise. Very strange. Ah, well, looks like I'm the only one experiencing this oddity- what on earth could be causing this on my system though.

Re: [Finale] odd problem with ps files, pdfs in os x

2005-03-14 Thread David Horne
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:48:28 +0100, Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I just tried it, too, and it seems you are right. So perhaps it was corrected in 2k5b, which seems to indicate it was a Finale problem after all (although it only showed in Reader 5, and not in Reader 6). I guess

Re: [Finale] odd problem with ps files, pdfs in os x

2005-03-14 Thread David Horne
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 05:15:47 -0500, Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 14 Mar 2005, at 4:42 AM, David Horne wrote: Just to confirm the problem still persists in 2005b. OK, I've tried some tests and this problem seems consistent on my set up. I'd be interested to know

Re: [Finale] odd problem with ps files, pdfs in os x

2005-03-14 Thread David Horne
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:35:59 -0500, Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 14 Mar 2005, at 8:25 PM, David Horne wrote: Darcy, can you confirm that you were using engraver tuplets? If not, what happens if you do? If someone else replicated my problem, I'm inclined to think it's

[Finale] odd problem with ps files, pdfs in os x

2005-03-13 Thread David Horne
Today, I noticed that a tuplet (triplet quaver and crotchet) was missing from a pdf created in os x from an eps file (created using the 'compile postscript listing' function.) FWIW, it doesn't print when printed on a non-ps printer. (I don't have a ps printer at home so can't check that.) It seems

Re: [Finale] odd problem with ps files, pdfs in os x

2005-03-13 Thread David Horne
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:18:32 -0500, Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 13 Mar 2005, at 7:45 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: David Horne wrote: It seems fine however, when I create the pdf directly within Finale, but that has it's own potential problems. Perhaps I missed

Re: [Finale] odd problem with ps files, pdfs in os x

2005-03-13 Thread David Horne
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:31:35 -0500, Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I believe this was a font problem, and it was fixed in Fin2004b (and also with a standalone Mac OS X font update). I have a PostScript printer, I always print to PDF directly from Finale, and since installing

[Finale] Finale 2005 printing bug with pdfs- OS X

2005-01-12 Thread David Horne
I seem to remember a thread here quite a while back reporting a bug when printing pdfs of finale 95 files created with OS X. Well, I just received a score from my publishers, and it seems the bug has struck again! All whole bar and semiquaver rests print as ppp marks. (File was created with Finale