Re: [Finale] PDFs and Finale Files via the Internet

2006-06-15 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
John Roberts wrote: Not that you all need any smartass comments from me, but the middle name "Patrick" might have been a clue. Might have been except for a friend, Alisha (not her real first name) Patrick, who married John Smythe, and regularly uses the name, Alisha Patrick Smythe. ns _

Re: [Finale] PDFs and Finale Files via the Internet

2006-06-15 Thread John Roberts
Not that you all need any smartass comments from me, but the middle name "Patrick" might have been a clue. JR On 6/15/06 5:58 PM, "Noel Stoutenburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dc wrote: >> Kim happens to be he. > To which I can only offer sincere apologies. All of the other persons I > know

Re: [Finale] PDFs and Finale Files via the Internet

2006-06-15 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Darcy James Argue wrote: Well, you clearly don't know many people of Korean descent! That is correct, though the few that I do know are almost all surnamed "Kim". ns ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/fina

Re: [Finale] PDFs and Finale Files via the Internet

2006-06-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Well, you clearly don't know many people of Korean descent! Growing up in Vancouver, the male Kims I knew outnumbered the females by at least 2-1. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY On 15 Jun 2006, at 5:58 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: dc wrote:

Re: [Finale] PDFs and Finale Files via the Internet

2006-06-15 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
dc wrote: Kim happens to be he. To which I can only offer sincere apologies. All of the other persons I know named "Kim" are female. ns ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] PDFs and Finale Files via the Internet (OT)

2006-06-15 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Ah, another case for gender-specific nomenclature, which I obviated when I dubbed my daughter Adrian, causing her a life of elucidation. Dean On Jun 15, 2006, at 3:34 AM, dc wrote: Noel Stoutenburg écrit: Kim specifically states that she and the publisher are both using a PC, but she doesn

Re: [Finale] PDFs and Finale Files via the Internet

2006-06-15 Thread Phil Daley
At 6/15/2006 08:06 AM, dhbailey wrote: >Phil Daley wrote: >> At 6/15/2006 06:27 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: >> >> >I don't know that any M$ OS has build in ~.pdf creation capability, and >> >I answered on the basis that the finale is being used to print to a >> >file, and the pdf is being crea

Re: [Finale] PDFs and Finale Files via the Internet

2006-06-15 Thread dhbailey
Phil Daley wrote: At 6/15/2006 06:27 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: >I don't know that any M$ OS has build in ~.pdf creation capability, and >I answered on the basis that the finale is being used to print to a >file, and the pdf is being created in a second step. Vista was to include a PDF writ

Re: [Finale] PDFs and Finale Files via the Internet

2006-06-15 Thread Phil Daley
At 6/15/2006 06:27 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: >I don't know that any M$ OS has build in ~.pdf creation capability, and >I answered on the basis that the finale is being used to print to a >file, and the pdf is being created in a second step. Vista was to include a PDF writing tool, but Adobe is

Re: [Finale] PDFs and Finale Files via the Internet

2006-06-15 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Richard Yates wrote: I do not think that is at all correct for pdf and ps files. Those numbers apply to uncompressed bit maps (like tif). It's not clear exactly how Kim was generating the ~.pdf's; from the description given, I assumed that an image was generated of the pages of the file, and

Re: [Finale] PDFs and Finale Files via the Internet

2006-06-15 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Christopher Smith wrote: I'm not getting part of this discussion. Aren't PDFs created from Finale files (not scans) just mathematical equations describing the lines and curves? So they will retain the exact same resolution no matter what? So any discussions of DPI are not germane to the topic

Re: [Finale] PDFs and Finale Files via the Internet

2006-06-14 Thread Richard Yates
> But the publisher I sent the file to mentioned that the sizes were pretty > huge. This seems odd. pdf and ps formats generally have much smaller file sizes than bitmapped ones - like tif. But even tif is not so bad these days with the enormous memories that most computers have. And a publisher,

Re: [Finale] PDFs and Finale Files via the Internet

2006-06-14 Thread Richard Yates
> I'm not getting part of this discussion. > > Aren't PDFs created from Finale files (not scans) just mathematical > equations describing the lines and curves? So they will retain the > exact same resolution no matter what? So any discussions of DPI are not > germane to the topic, as they have no e

Re: [Finale] PDFs and Finale Files via the Internet

2006-06-14 Thread Brennon Bortz
Well, I've been having problems using the built-in PDF engine in OS X--a whole slew of them, actually. Sometimes it crashes Finale altogether (lost quite a bit of work that way, once), and I consistently have problems getting all the fonts packaged into the PDF. Also, there are so few options und

Re: [Finale] PDFs and Finale Files via the Internet

2006-06-14 Thread Christopher Smith
I'm not getting part of this discussion. Aren't PDFs created from Finale files (not scans) just mathematical equations describing the lines and curves? So they will retain the exact same resolution no matter what? So any discussions of DPI are not germane to the topic, as they have no effect o

Re: [Finale] PDFs and Finale Files via the Internet

2006-06-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Music engravings have a lot of curves and shapes that have curved edges. Since most laser jet printers are 1200 DPI. I assumed when I created a PDF, I should opt for the highest possible quality setting (printer's quality); and picked 1200 DPI. But the publisher I sent

Re: [Finale] PDFs and Finale Files via the Internet

2006-06-14 Thread Phil Daley
At 6/14/2006 12:57 PM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Music engravings have a lot of curves and shapes that have curved edges. Since most laser jet printers are 1200 DPI. I assumed when I created a PDF, I should opt for the highest possible quality setting (printer's quality); and picked 1200 DPI.

[Finale] PDFs and Finale Files via the Internet

2006-06-14 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
Music engravings have a lot of curves and shapes that have curved edges.  Since most laser jet printers are 1200 DPI.I assumed when I created a PDF, I should opt for the highest possible quality setting (printer's quality); and picked 1200 DPI. But the publisher I sent the file to mentioned that th