[Finale] File conversion oddities

2011-07-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, Time to tap the collective wisdom. I have a score that was created in Fin2001, most recently edited in Fin2003, now opened in Fin2011. By and large, the conversion went fine. However, there are a few places in the score where the group bracket and barlines drawn through staves

Re: [Finale] File conversion oddities

2011-07-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
and of course right after I hit Send, I figured out half of the problem. I fixed this by inserting a new measure stack to the right of the problem measure, copying the music from the problem measure to the new one, and deleting the problem measure. Still would be nice to know why this

Re: [Finale] File conversion oddities

2011-07-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
I take it back -- that didn't fix the problem. It just moved the affected measure back one. (That is, if the problem measure was 6, and I insert a new stack to the right, copy music and delete 6, the new 6 now looks fine, but 5 has inherited the problem.) So I'm back to square one. Thanks,

Re: [Finale] File conversion oddities

2011-07-08 Thread Robert Patterson
It looks to me like some of your groups for optimized staff systems didn't get transferred. TGTools will rebuild them for you if that's the case. On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Aaron Sherber aa...@sherber.com wrote: Hi all, Time to tap the collective wisdom. I have a score that was created

Re: [Finale] File conversion oddities

2011-07-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 7/8/2011 10:53 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: It looks to me like some of your groups for optimized staff systems didn't get transferred. TGTools will rebuild them for you if that's the case. Briliant, Robert, dead on! Works even though Fin11 doesn't have the concept of optimized staff systems

Re: [Finale] File conversion oddities

2011-07-08 Thread Chuck Israels
Thank you Aaron and Robert, I have encountered this a number of times (in converting older scores to recent versions of Finale) and used more brutal measures to cure the problem - copying the whole score into a new template. This is a big help. Chuck On Jul 8, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Aaron