Re: Meandering moment, Re: [Finale] Finale on G5

2006-05-26 Thread Robert Patterson
Kim Patrick Clow wrote: But in my past experience, I have had CD ROMS fail on me. And not willing to take *any* chances of losing data again, when I get my CD ROMs/PDFs from Germany, The only way to save digital content is continual backups to newer media. Ultimately I foresee libraries

Meandering moment, Re: [Finale] Finale on G5

2006-05-25 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 08:24 PM 5/25/06 -0400, Neal Gittleman wrote: it strikes me that an old-machine-for-old- files solution doesn't seem so out of whack... I don't think it's a bad concept in theory. But it comes up against the reality of an ever-increasing load of quickly consciously obsoleted formats. Why

Re: Meandering moment, Re: [Finale] Finale on G5

2006-05-25 Thread Robert Patterson
While this is little help for Fin2.x, since ca. Fin2k I've been saving all my files as PDF for printing purposes. This greatly alleviates the need to keep old Finale versions around, because you can always print the file. Editing it would require the original version, of course, unless you are

Re: Meandering moment, Re: [Finale] Finale on G5

2006-05-25 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Very wise words. Robert Patterson wrote: While this is little help for Fin2.x, since ca. Fin2k I've been saving all my files as PDF for printing purposes. This greatly alleviates the need to keep old Finale versions around, because you can always print the file. Editing it would require the