Re: [Finale] PDF output questions (Windows)

On Sun, July 5, 2009 5:05 pm, Daniel Wolf wrote: > So at the very least, we can convert images to EPS (in GIMP, for example, > it's just a "save as" action) and embed those in the Finale document. What a blindingly obvious solution. I'd only used ever EPS for placing musical footnotes in scores, n

Re: [Finale] PDF output questions (Windows)

On Mon, July 6, 2009 3:13 am, dc wrote: > I sent a sample off-list. It seems to have fixed the multiple-line problem and ugly screen display completely. You said Acrobat 7 -- what did you use that for? As a virtual printer using its printer driver? That would be Adobe's standard driver for all the

[Finale] PDF output questions (Windows)

Dennis wrote: "So on print-to-file, does it still produce ugly screen display?" The screen display is fine, although at some magnifications Ghostview is still less reliably good than Acrobat. "(I should mention that embedded EPS graphics will compile; it's embedded bitmap images that don't.)

Re: [Finale] PDF output questions (Windows)

On Sun, July 5, 2009 3:56 pm, dc wrote: > The staff lines are regular (and generally much thiner), and the beams are > solid. Here is what it looks like (400K image): Hither Dennis _

Re: [Finale] PDF output questions (Windows)

On Sun, July 5, 2009 3:56 pm, dc wrote: > The staff lines are regular (and generally much thiner), and the beams are > solid. I could send you one privately if you like. That would be great. At maximum magnification, the compile version is solid, the print version is full of multiple lines. If the

Re: [Finale] PDF output questions (Windows)

On Sun, July 5, 2009 9:56 am, dc wrote: > The PDF display has been vastly improved with Finale 2008 - one of the two > reasons I upgraded (the other being the hyphen bug that was never fixed in > 2007). Is the display as good as the 'compile Postscript' method that is very clean and sharp? Or are

Re: [Finale] PDF output questions (Windows)

Daniel, Thank you! This seems like progress, but not if the PDF doesn't work that's derived from the compile PS option. :) So on print-to-file, does it still produce ugly screen display? (I should mention that embedded EPS graphics will compile; it's embedded bitmap images that don't.) Thanks,

Re: [Finale] PDF output questions (Windows)

Thank you for the PDF Creator reference. I'm a few steps closer to reliability! PDF Creator embeds fonts with the correct names. Two minor font issues: - Only font subsets are embedded. It must be run through GSView to re-embed the full fonts (POD requirements). - The font substitution table must

[Finale] PDF output questions (Windows)

Dennis: In WinXP for both 2009 and 2010, I can verify that both Compile PS and exporting the page as an EPS appear to embeds the graphic in the file, but the graphic will not open, and when saved as a PDF (I've used both Acrobat Pro and Ghostview), the graphic is removed entirely. When,

Re: [Finale] PDF output questions (Windows)

I use Ghostscript to create PDFs, but I install it with the installer at the PDFForge.org website. See http://www.pdfforge.org and click on the PDF Creator link on the left toolbar. I haven't had any problems with embedded fonts. Hope this helps. Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > Hi all, >

[Finale] PDF output questions (Windows)

Hi all, Windows XP SP3 Finale 2007 First, the reason I'm about to ask some questions; these issues have plagued Finale/Windows for years, and POD printing has made solving them really important (to me, anyway): - The "compile postscript" option produces clean-displaying PDFs, WILL include correc