You said Finale 2008; do you have the update? That might be an issue...
no, but as i said:
on the finalemusic.com downloads page i can't select the version
(menu is visible but not accessible) and the search for finale
updates doesn't seem to work. i also can't log in as an existing
At 05:53 AM 8/28/2008, shirling neueweise wrote:
on the finalemusic.com downloads page i can't select the version
(menu is visible but not accessible) and the search for finale
updates doesn't seem to work. i also can't log in as an existing
online customer. is their site jammed?
just checked
All is working fine for me this morning. Have
you (just for kicks) tried a different browser?
yes of course. mac firefox, mac safari, PC opera, PC firefox
for e.g. i get to the login page, type in
username/pass hit go and it starts to go and
hangs. a few minutes later i get a server too
At 10:24 AM 8/28/2008, shirling neueweise wrote:
for e.g. i get to the login page, type in
username/pass hit go and it starts to go and
hangs. a few minutes later i get a server too
busy message.
You mean http://finalemusic.com/store/login.aspx?t=myaccount.aspx ?
It worked for me both last
] Finale Documentation Review
I don't consider a manual if I can't read it in my bedtime. I usually
print PDF manual out but Finale manual is too big for home printing.
So, I paid for the printed manual from MM a few years ago, only to
find they are printed sideway, 2 pages side by side. This won't
I don't consider a manual if I can't read it in my bedtime. I usually
print PDF manual out but Finale manual is too big for home printing.
So, I paid for the printed manual from MM a few years ago, only to
find they are printed sideway, 2 pages side by side. This won't let
me read in
Since MM seems disinterested in producing a paper edition of the manual,
wouldn't it be useful to be able to purchase essentially a hard copy of
the html through a print-on-demand publisher like Lulu.com?
Daniel Wolf
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Somehow, reading hard copy conveys information to my brain in a way
that reading a computer monitor does not. I don't know if this is
generational or more or less universal, but the experiences are
palpably different to me. I can't imagine absorbing complex and
detailed information
Chuck Israels wrote:
Somehow, reading hard copy conveys information to my brain in a way that
reading a computer monitor does not. I don't know if this is
generational or more or less universal, but the experiences are palpably
different to me. I can't imagine absorbing complex and detailed
I'm with Chuck on this one, I can't absorb anything on the computer
screen. I came in at Finale 3.0 and those 3 books were the reason I
learnt the program from the beginning to the end. I can't imagine
ploughing through it now and on-line to boot! It may one of the
reasons that the program
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review
Since MM seems disinterested in producing a paper edition of the manual,
wouldn't it be useful to be able to purchase essentially a hard copy of
the html through a print-on-demand publisher like Lulu.com?
Daniel Wolf
Williams, Jim wrote:
I asked on the MM forum for a PDF manual for 2008 and one existed; Carla
gave me the URL, and I downloaded it and printed it all out.
I'll bet that a request for a 2009 manual in PDF format might yield
similar results. I'll try it or you can.
Jim
Surely you want to share
i have just started slamming my head against the wall coming back to
finale after months away from notation. fun times. crashes whenever
trying to access wizard (from menu or start-up window), meaning i
can't use/define/access document styles. on the finalemusic.com
downloads page i can't
jef,
Good news for you and other Mac users (not so good for Windows.)
Finale uses whatever your system says your default browser is. You
can set your default browser to whatever you want from inside Safari
(yeah, I know!) Just open Safari, go to Preferences, and the first
item is Default
Good news for you and other Mac users (not so good for Windows.)
finale is finally listening to its users?
Just open Safari, go to Preferences, and the first item is Default
Browser. Select Firefox and go ahead and quit Safari, and the next
time you access the Finale Help, it will open in
On Aug 27, 2008, at 9:44 PM, shirling neueweise wrote:
Good news for you and other Mac users (not so good for Windows.)
finale is finally listening to its users?
Just open Safari, go to Preferences, and the first item is Default
Browser. Select Firefox and go ahead and quit Safari, and
At 8/25/2008 05:00 PM, Robert Patterson wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Allen Fisher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What about the help button that's right in dialogs?
If I click the help button, it no longer knows which field I was in. I
want help specific to exactly where I am, not just to
Phil Daley wrote:
Right, that's called Context Sensitive Help in Windoze.
I guess my point is that for documentation to be truly useful, not only
must it be context sensitive, it must be completely integrated into the
program. When Microsoft offloaded online help into MSDN for VB6, the
Another kind of help that has been lost is domain-oriented help. The
kind of help we have now is basically about how to use the program. What
might really help as much is how to use the program *to write music*.
The old Finale Encylopedia was a great first draft. But it could go so
much
Robert Patterson wrote:
I don't use the Finale documentation much. But when I have, I find it to
be fairly servicable. I don't think any changes they make within the
current HTML framework will make much difference. If MM wants to make a
real difference with help, they need to be thinking
On 26 Aug 2008 at 7:15, Robert Patterson wrote:
Phil Daley wrote:
Right, that's called Context Sensitive Help in Windoze.
I guess my point is that for documentation to be truly useful, not only
must it be context sensitive, it must be completely integrated into the
program. When
Greetings SHSU list subscribers, I'm Mark Johnson, and I am responsible for all
of MakeMusic's notation documentation resources including the User Manual,
Installation and Tutorials guide, QuickStart Videos, and other materials.
We are currently conducting a review of all of these materials to
At 11:14 AM 8/25/2008, you wrote:
I encourage any comments you have, but especially appreciate a
description of your most negative experiences with the Finale help
resources and perhaps any ideas regarding its improvement.
I don't like having to use Internet Explorer to access help. In fact,
At 02:48 PM 8/25/2008, Giz Bowe wrote:
I don't like having to use Internet Explorer to access help. In fact,
I don't like to go online at all for help.
You do need IE (or some other browser) to access the new help files,
but you don't need to be online. The help files all reside on your
hard
Johnson, Mark wrote:
Greetings SHSU list subscribers, I'm Mark Johnson, and I am responsible for all
of MakeMusic's notation documentation resources including the User Manual,
Installation and Tutorials guide, QuickStart Videos, and other materials.
We are currently conducting a review of all
Hello, Mark.
This is not a specific comment about Finale's online help, but if MM
wants to hit a homerun with online documentation they'll have to get a
whole lot better than they are now, or indeed that any program I know
of is now.
The only truly successful online help I've ever used was the
What about the help button that's right in dialogs?
F1 is there on windows.
On Aug 25, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Robert Patterson wrote:
There should be a Help key (in VB it is F1). Pressing the help key
should pop useful information about the exact dbx and exact field
within the dbx where my cursor
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Allen Fisher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What about the help button that's right in dialogs?
If I click the help button, it no longer knows which field I was in. I
want help specific to exactly where I am, not just to the dbx where I
am. And it needs to make a
On 25 Aug 2008 at 15:38, Allen Fisher wrote:
What about the help button that's right in dialogs?
It should be mapped to the F1 key on Windows, and the appropriate key
on a Mac.
And *everything* in the window has to be covered if it's a single
help document for an entire dialog box. And the
At 05:35 PM 8/25/2008, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 25 Aug 2008 at 15:38, Allen Fisher wrote:
What about the help button that's right in dialogs?
It should be mapped to the F1 key on Windows, and the appropriate key
on a Mac.
F1 works for me on Win -- does it not work for you?
Aaron.
On 25 Aug 2008 at 17:47, Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 05:35 PM 8/25/2008, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 25 Aug 2008 at 15:38, Allen Fisher wrote:
What about the help button that's right in dialogs?
It should be mapped to the F1 key on Windows, and the appropriate key
on a Mac.
F1 works
Johnson, Mark wrote:
We are currently conducting a review of all of these materials to determine
where gaps exist between user need in understanding and using the software and
existing help resources. Our goal is to determine which users do not find the
help they need, why, and how these
At 08:55 PM 8/25/2008, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
very often. But one thing that I would suggest would be an invaluable
aid is to incorporate an expanded version of The Visual Index, now
found in the Quick Reference Guide, into the full user documentation.
This is already there. When you start up
To my suggestion:
incorporate an expanded version of The Visual Index, now
found in the Quick Reference Guide, into the full user documentation.
Aaron Sherber wrote
This is already there. When you start up the help files, Visual Index
is the third link down on the right.
to which I can
Giz Bowe wrote:
At 11:14 AM 8/25/2008, you wrote:
I encourage any comments you have, but especially appreciate a
description of your most negative experiences with the Finale help
resources and perhaps any ideas regarding its improvement.
I don't like having to use Internet Explorer to
At 09:39 PM 8/25/2008, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
To my suggestion:
incorporate an expanded version of The Visual Index, now
found in the Quick Reference Guide, into the full user documentation.
Aaron Sherber wrote
This is already there. When you start up the help files, Visual Index
is the
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