Re: [Finale] Compile vs. print

2006-05-17 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 12:48 AM 5/17/06 -0400, Scott Amort wrote: Do you have any examples of eight note flags? Do they work correctly? Eighth-note flags work correctly, upstem and downstem. 16th-note downstem flag works correctly. Smaller value downstem flags work correctly. Smaller value upstem flags (which

Re: [Finale] Compile vs. print

2006-05-16 Thread Scot Hanna-Weir
Dennis, I find it particularly odd that it displays correctly in some formats, but not in others, (though I can't say I haven't had the same problem). A couple of things you might want to check: Opening the font, is the bounding box properly positioned around the character? I'm assuming

Re: [Finale] Compile vs. print

2006-05-16 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 10:15 AM 5/16/06 -0500, Scot Hanna-Weir wrote: Opening the font, is the bounding box properly positioned around the character? Yes. I suspected that, and did a 'select all', in case there were points outside the visible area. There weren't, and all the font glyphs validated for incorrect

Re: [Finale] Compile vs. print

2006-05-16 Thread Scot Hanna-Weir
A couple more thoughts for you Dennis: You said it prints to .ps correctly, are you sure, and how did you check this? You said that it printed to your non-postscript printers correctly, do you have any postscript printers on your network, and is it possible that they were set as the

Re: [Finale] Compile vs. print

2006-05-16 Thread Scott Amort
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: But something else is up. Just one character, an upward 16th flag, is misplaced. It's the only character that has a problem (no other flags in either direction, or other characters), and every character of the font fully validates in the font creation program (this is

Re: [Finale] Compile vs. print

2006-05-16 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 11:45 AM 5/16/06 -0500, Scot Hanna-Weir wrote: You said it prints to .ps correctly, are you sure, and how did you check this? Not by reading its code by eye, but through the additional step of using Acrobat Distiller or Ghostscript. I have two versions of Distiller (3 and 5) and the latest

Re: [Finale] Compile vs. print

2006-05-16 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 02:20 PM 5/16/06 -0400, Scott Amort wrote: Have you tried sending the compiled postscript listing directly to your ps printer? I don't have a Postscript printer. I am creating PDFs for download and for my own printing on various non-PS printers. That's why the screen display and size are

Re: [Finale] Compile vs. print

2006-05-16 Thread Scott Amort
Hi Dennis, On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 16:56 -0400, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: I don't have a Postscript printer. I am creating PDFs for download and for my own printing on various non-PS printers. That's why the screen display and size are important -- so those folks auditioning the files can get

Re: [Finale] Compile vs. print

2006-05-16 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 06:19 PM 5/16/06 -0400, you wrote: 1) Compile postscript in Finale, or export EPS, with AdobePS 4.5.3 printer driver 2) Running that file through Distiller (v5) and/or GS (v8.53) 3) Output has misplaced 16th note flag Yes. (Just this one character, it seems. I haven't used every one in the

Re: [Finale] Compile vs. print

2006-05-16 Thread Scott Amort
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: I used an IBM InfoPrint 5000 and an Apple 630, which are two of several PS drivers I have installed for client jobs. No change. The Postscript driver doesn't seem to affect the EPS export or PS compile anyway; even with no PS driver selected in the printer dialog, the

[Finale] Compile vs. print

2006-05-13 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
Hi all, I'm still stuck in the PDF issues in Finale 2K6c. I bought the EPS combiner so I could export EPS from Finale to the 9.2x12.2 pages that I use (as Finale's compile doesn't accept custom page size values) and create the full PDF from there. I thought I was home free. :) But something else