Re: [Finale] FinMac 2004b sys 9 -- horrible

2004-04-21 Thread Philip Aker
On Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004, at 14:56 US/Pacific, Johannes Gebauer wrote: In fact I _really_ hope that OS 9 will be dropped for 2k5 in favour of a bug free, speedier OS X. Concerning EPS manquée, would you find Import/Export PDF facilities instead of EPS to be a viable option? Philip Aker

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2004b sys 9 -- horrible

2004-04-21 Thread gj.berg
Thanks Johannes but I figured that out -- I just don't understand why these things are so big. re the other command/option/shift and click screen to reduce and blammo 5%! Jerry Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 20.04.2004 22:49 Uhr, gj.berg wrote The meta-tool resize command is all

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2004b sys 9 -- horrible

2004-04-21 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 21.04.2004 14:13 Uhr, gj.berg wrote re the other command/option/shift and click screen to reduce and blammo 5%! Works fine in OS X. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2004b sys 9 -- horrible

2004-04-21 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 21.04.2004 14:16 Uhr, Philip Aker wrote On Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004, at 14:56 US/Pacific, Johannes Gebauer wrote: In fact I _really_ hope that OS 9 will be dropped for 2k5 in favour of a bug free, speedier OS X. Concerning EPS manquée, would you find Import/Export PDF facilities instead

Re: [Finale] OT: old Mac disks

2004-04-21 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 10:38 AM 4/20/04 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Just be careful, floppies are _very_ unreliable for backups. I've heard this said, but I started using floppies in 1980 (TRS-80 and Color Computer), and even those are still readable nearly a quarter-century later. A friend who still has a

[Finale] Mac EPS Export Support

2004-04-21 Thread Brad Beyenhof
I just got an email (in response to the MacSupport request by David Froom that many of us underwrote) that directed me to go to http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/email-maceps.asp to subscribe to a mailing list whereby I would be updated on the progress of EPS Export support in MacFin2k4. The text

Re: [Finale] OT: old Mac disks

2004-04-21 Thread Johannes Gebauer
I have actually had a lot of experience with this. I would never consider floppies as a save media, too many of them have failed on my. Johannes On 21.04.2004 16:48 Uhr, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote I've heard this said, but I started using floppies in 1980 (TRS-80 and Color Computer), and even

Re: [Finale] [OT] OSX 10.3.3 Preview

2004-04-21 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On 4/20/04 12:51 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 20.04.2004 21:22 Uhr, Brad Beyenhof wrote Can the Preview app in OS X 10.3.3 convert files from PDF to PS/EPS? Although I haven't tried, I guess you can use the postscript printer driver to compile a PS listing. EPS, no I don't think that's

Re: [Finale] OT: old Mac disks

2004-04-21 Thread Carl Donsbach
Over the past few years diskettes seem to have been getting cheaper in price and quality. Besides the market has been flooded with low priced designer color diskettes which fail after a few uses, especially if carried around in hip pockets as I sometimes see people doing these days (bad

[Finale] INSTALLATION ALERT - 2004B MAC

2004-04-21 Thread Arkady
A SMALL(?) ALERT -- I've installed 2004B for Mac. Then I became aware of the PDF problem, i.e. when my Print to PDF came out distorted on the Windows/Acrobat side. As soon as I heard about the Font Pack solution, I installed that. Then 2004B Installer came out, so I downloaded it, and during

Re: [Finale] INSTALLATION ALERT - 2004B MAC

2004-04-21 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On 4/21/04 11:41 AM, Arkady wrote: FinaleScript.dat already exists. Do you wish to replace it with the file/folder from the installer? The choices were -- Replace, Replace All, Stop, Skip Choosing Replace All here did not affect the creation of the second Finale package. Replacing

Re: [Finale] to upgrade or not to upgrade

2004-04-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 20 Apr 2004, at 05:55 PM, Martin Banner wrote: I have been using Finale 2003 on my Mac quite satisfactorily, thank you, for well over a year, even on my brand new Powerbook laptop. I've been considering upgrading to FinMac 2004, but have seen all the posts here about bug after bug after

Re: [Finale] INSTALLATION ALERT - 2004B MAC

2004-04-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
However, it's still weird that Finale updaters leave the old application intact by default. This is not standard at all -- the expected behavior is that the old version will be replaced by the new version. We're all used to it by now, since Finale's always been like this, but it would be

Re: [Finale] to upgrade or not to upgrade

2004-04-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 21 Apr 2004, at 04:23 PM, Martin Banner wrote: Darcy, Thanks for the tip. Have you had the opportunity to use the smart hypen capability? I have had so many discussions with Randy Stokes over the years about including this, since I use Finale exclusively with choral music (I have nearly 90

Re: [Finale] INSTALLATION ALERT - 2004B MAC

2004-04-21 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 21.04.2004 20:41 Uhr, Arkady wrote My SUGGESTION to MakeMusic is to PROMPTLY ALERT all it's User Base about that prompt VIA MASS EMAIL, and POSTING IT IN BIG RED LETTERS NEAR THE DOWNLOAD NOW BUTTON ON THEIR WEB SITE! Why? No harm was done, nor would have been done whichever choice you

Re: [Finale] to upgrade or not to upgrade

2004-04-21 Thread Johannes Gebauer
If you do not depend on EPS files (both import and export) then you should upgrade. Finale 2004 has a wealth of new features which you will love, and it runs native in OS X actually making it much more stable. It is still slow. However, for me this is now mostly the reaction to some of the

Re: [Finale] INSTALLATION ALERT - 2004B MAC

2004-04-21 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I beg to differ. That is not the expected behavior. Almost every OS X application I've done updates on will leave the older version there. Digital Performer, Protools to name the two that pop into mind at the moment. Darcy James Argue wrote: However, it's still weird that Finale updaters

Re: [Finale] to upgrade or not to upgrade

2004-04-21 Thread Harold Owen
Martin Bsanner writes: Darcy, Thanks for the tip. Have you had the opportunity to use the smart hypen capability? I have had so many discussions with Randy Stokes over the years about including this, since I use Finale exclusively with choral music (I have nearly 90 published modern

Re: [Finale] INSTALLATION ALERT - 2004B MAC

2004-04-21 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:31 PM 4/21/04 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote: However, it's still weird that Finale updaters leave the old application intact by default. This is not standard at all -- the expected behavior is that the old version will be replaced by the new version. Is this a Mac/PC difference?

Re: [Finale] INSTALLATION ALERT - 2004B MAC

2004-04-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 21 Apr 2004, at 04:51 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: I beg to differ. That is not the expected behavior. Almost every OS X application I've done updates on will leave the older version there. ??? None of Apple's apps (Safari, Mail, iTunes, iPhoto, iCal, iSync, etc etc etc.) do this. Nor does MS

RE: [Finale] INSTALLATION ALERT - 2004B MAC

2004-04-21 Thread Fisher, Allen
The reason that we ask is so that we don't overwrite anything that you've already customized. The user backlash would be quite bad (am I right guys? g) if we deleted everyone's cusomized FinaleScripts, instrument.txt, and pagesizes.txt files without asking. There's no harm done in writing or not

RE: [Finale] INSTALLATION ALERT - 2004B MAC

2004-04-21 Thread Fisher, Allen
Toast did this as well the last time I updated it... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Dannewitz Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 3:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Finale] INSTALLATION ALERT - 2004B MAC I beg to differ. That

[Finale] FinMac2004b

2004-04-21 Thread David Froom
I'm working on a large orchestral score, begun in Mac2004. 2004b is a significant fix, particularly as to speed issues: smart shapes and special tools are back to full speed, even on my 400mhz G4. Generally speaking, except for EPS export, I am rather happy with the program right now --