Re: [Finale] Fin2004 Discount

2003-08-08 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 12:31 AM, Richard Yates wrote: The e-mail announcement I got was for Windows... And I have received no e-mail promo at all - even though I have gotten every upgrade since 2.5. When I first heard here of the upgrade I reserved my copy at $89. I thought I was

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 Review

2003-08-08 Thread Jari Williamsson
David H. Bailey writes: There has to be some sort of code you enter into the installation or else how could the program know whether or not to disable aspects of the program after 30 days if you haven't registered? The challenge/response system is seamless if you do the registration over

[Finale] Finale 2004

2003-08-08 Thread Éric Dussault
Wouldn'd it have been great if the Finale 2004 advertisement on MakeMusic's website could be made so they can be viewed by a macintosh computer. All the sound samples with soundfonts and musical playback are not compatible with macs. They have a particular talent for annoying mac people, have

Re: [Finale] TAN: more booklet printing woes

2003-08-08 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 02:29 PM 8/8/03 +, Robert Patterson Finale wrote: Now I have a problem with the fonts embedded in the PDFs. Apparently the music fonts are embedded in the first page of music. But I have several pages of title and cover preceding these. The problem is, when Acrobat prints the pages out of

Re: [Finale] TAN: Tacet or 2x only

2003-08-08 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
Actually he DID say it was inside a first ending, but no matter, I'm sure that you would have gotten it right if you had seen the passage in question. In addition, I'm serious about doubting markings. If a chart shows up with unusual registers, articulations, or instructions, one tends to pay

Re: [Finale] TAN: OSX Booklet printing (e.g., w/ Acrobat Reader)

2003-08-08 Thread Javier Ruiz
Robert, have you checked the Adobe PS drivers? They come with booklet printing. (I am talking Mac OS9 here). Hope it helps... Javier Ruiz... [waiting for his G5 to arrive in time] This is a followup to yesterday's thread. It appears that booklet printing is only available in OS9. (This is yet

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 Review

2003-08-08 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 08/08/03 10:38, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: I am not hugely overreacting. If you want overreaction, talk to me off-list. :) :-) First of all, cracks will be there ASAP. The only penalty is to legal users. I still don't see how we are victimized or penalized. The way

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004

2003-08-08 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 06:30 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 03:14 PM, Éric Dussault wrote: Wouldn'd it have been great if the Finale 2004 advertisement on MakeMusic's website could be made so they can be viewed by a macintosh computer. All the sound

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 Review

2003-08-08 Thread Richard Huggins
From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does that mean this is okay with you? Yes, it's fine with me. Not even a whisper of protest? No, not a whisper of protest. Everybody else thinks this is fine, too? I can't speak for everyone else. I think your reaction is excessively hostile,

[Finale] Re: Registration codes and copyright

2003-08-08 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
The question of registration code hacks is interesting to me. You own the Finale software (it's licensed, but American law is very clear that you actually own the copy you bought), and no bankruptcy, etc can take that away. Is it still *illegal* to use registration code hacks (assuming that they

Re: [Finale] FinaleScript question

2003-08-08 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 01:59 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: However, if I'm going to need that sort of operability outside of Finale, the QuicKeys upgrade ($69.95) is a lot more appealing than an OS upgrade (reputedly $130). Uh, not if you are planning on upgrading the OS anyway -- and if

RE: [Finale] RE: 2004 Panic

2003-08-08 Thread Tobias Giesen
Sibelius apparently manages the transfer of licenses from one machine to another via floppies, which strikes me as not such a great idea. (What do Mac users do?) I would say that finally, after 20 years of IBM PC compatible floppies, we have a successor to the floppy which fits into ALL

[Finale] Intellectual property

2003-08-08 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 11:36 PM 8/8/2003 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 08.08.2003 18:59 Uhr, Tobias Giesen wrote I have had personal (albeit mostly via email) contact with many Coda employees, and I am deeply convinced that if there is one company that you can trust, it's them. Many Coda employees,

RE: [Finale] RE: 2004 Panic

2003-08-08 Thread Burt Fenner
Thanks, Tyler. BF -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tyler Turner Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 6:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Finale] RE: 2004 Panic Finale 2004 Registration FAQs Q. Does Finale 2004 have copy

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 Copy Protection

2003-08-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
Robert Patterson: Going on about 12 years, I still occasionally fire up Finale 2.6.3. I recently discovered it still runs in Classic. Yeah, but it doesn't *print out* (from any driver) under System 9. For that reason, I have been systematically updating all my 2.6.3 files as orders come in for

Re: [Finale] First FIN 2k5 question

2003-08-08 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 08:32 PM, Tobias Giesen wrote: So, I would estimate the chances of a Linux version within the next 5 years at about 1% probability. I would say you're being wildly optimistic. [grin] - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston MA

[Finale] More Finale 2004 info

2003-08-08 Thread Jari Williamsson
Hello! I noticed that the MakeMusic! marketing material for Finale 2004 only seem to compare the SoftSynth output with normal MIDI output. No example how a printed page would sound with human playback. So I created such an example, which is now linked from my review: http://www.finaletips.nu/

Re: [Finale] 2004 on site

2003-08-08 Thread Richard Huggins
Great to see! Apparently, if you can at least run system 9.0.4, you can use this upgrade even though some features may not be available to you. This is good for anyone like me with a dinosaur Mac that can't run OS X. And finally we know what the trade-up for those who didn't upgrade from 2002 to