Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Jul 2002, at 23:14, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: At 12:45 PM -0400 7/04/02, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: But I have produced EPS when needed, and just to be sure, I did it now. It works. Oh. You wanted more. :) A gotcha' that I run into all the time with EPS file embedded in

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Jul 2002, at 4:32, Philip Aker wrote: On Thursday, July 4, 2002, at 10:03 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: [...] Well, PDF requires the purchase of something to produce the PDF files. You might want to check out GhostScript or possibly GhostView if it is available for Windows. Works

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Jul 2002, at 5:29, Dennis W. Manasco wrote: Since your final output will be Quark or PageMaker and not Word, your best bet may be to simplify your workflow. Most graphic designers would prefer to set raw text, and set the graphics as separate files. This makes their job a lot

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 05.07.2002 17:50 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote I'm having problems with the basic music fonts not printing out. The problem is clearly that the fonts are *not* being saved in the EPS file, because when I SAVE AS EPS, the fonts get properly embedded and it works, as opposed to when I export a

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread richard
The last time I looked at GhostScript, it was a horridly prollix command- line driven utility that I could never get to work properly. Yes, it used to be. However, the newer version, with the GhostView interface is great: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ Richard Yates

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Jul 2002, at 12:11, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: At 11:50 AM -0400 7/05/02, David W. Fenton wrote: I'm having problems with the basic music fonts not printing out. The problem is clearly that the fonts are *not* being saved in the EPS file, because when I SAVE AS EPS, the fonts get

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Jul 2002, at 12:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 7/5/02 10:51:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having problems with the basic music fonts not printing out. The problem is clearly that the fonts are *not* being saved in the EPS file, because when I SAVE AS EPS,

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Jul 2002, at 18:20, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 05.07.2002 17:50 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote I'm having problems with the basic music fonts not printing out. The problem is clearly that the fonts are *not* being saved in the EPS file, because when I SAVE AS EPS, the fonts get

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 05.07.2002 19:55 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote Well, I generally don't use PostScript, as until a year ago I didn't have a PS printer. I don't use it because it's just awfully slow in comparison to PCL-mode printing. If I was producing final output, I might use it, but that would mean

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread Patrick Hubers
--Op 05-07-2002 16:08 -0400 schreef Dennis Bathory-Kitsz: At 03:31 PM 7/5/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: But what would be the point of using a PS printer if you're always sending it TT fonts? No point, really. Both Type 1 and TrueType are vector fonts, and contain much the same

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 10:42 PM 7/5/02 +0200, Patrick Hubers wrote: If you're printing directly from Finale only, there's no reason to prefer a PS printer, no. However, if you need to print proofs of material that will eventually be rendered by a high resolution typesetter, like a DTP document with embedded

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 05.07.2002 21:31 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote Normally it is no problem to print truetype fonts to PS printers, although I don't know how this works with EPS files. But what would be the point of using a PS printer if you're always sending it TT fonts? I didn't say always, I just meant

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Jul 2002, at 12:48, Rocky Road wrote: And so it came to pass that David W. Fenton spake: At 12:47 PM 06/27/02, David W. Fenton wrote: What I need is advice on how to help her export the musical examples to EPS files that will embed in MS Word 2000 documents that can be sent

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 12:10 PM 7/4/02 -0400, you wrote: The platform is PC for Finale and Word, where the documents to go to the PROFESSIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGNER are produced. I don't used EPS anymore, because I prefer to use PDF, and most print houses are fine with that these days. But I have produced EPS when

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 12:10 PM 7/4/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: the PostScript that Finale produces being non-portable unless you do special tweaks. I assumed that the problems with the PS export would also be present in the EPS production (perhaps wrongly). In re-reading, I see you are using the term

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Jul 2002, at 12:45, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 12:10 PM 7/4/02 -0400, you wrote: The platform is PC for Finale and Word, where the documents to go to the PROFESSIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGNER are produced. I don't used EPS anymore, because I prefer to use PDF, and most print houses are

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Jul 2002, at 13:04, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 12:10 PM 7/4/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: the PostScript that Finale produces being non-portable unless you do special tweaks. I assumed that the problems with the PS export would also be present in the EPS production (perhaps

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:19 PM 7/4/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: Where does the OwnPS=0 option go? Finale.ini? What section should I put it in? Settings. In any event, the user in question has a post-2000 version of Finale (I'm not sure which), so WinFin97 is really only my issue on my personal setup, not

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:10 PM 07/04/02, David W. Fenton wrote: The platform is PC for Finale and Word, where the documents to go to the PROFESSIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGNER are produced. Professional Graphic Designers work just as happily with TIFF as with EPS. I asked about the pitfalls of producing the EPS files

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Jul 2002, at 14:32, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 12:10 PM 07/04/02, David W. Fenton wrote: The platform is PC for Finale and Word, where the documents to go to the PROFESSIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGNER are produced. Professional Graphic Designers work just as happily with TIFF as with EPS. And

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-02 Thread David W. Fenton
On 27 Jun 2002, at 13:12, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 12:47 PM 06/27/02, David W. Fenton wrote: What I need is advice on how to help her export the musical examples to EPS files that will embed in MS Word 2000 documents that can be sent to the printer and be portable. I'm sure you will

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-02 Thread David W. Fenton
On 2 Jul 2002, at 21:54, David W. Fenton wrote: [a very snippy response that he never should have posted] I don't know how that message got recycled again, but it was actually from June 27th, and I thought it was a new response. Pardon me for that -- I sent it before I realized what was going

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-06-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:47 PM 06/27/02, David W. Fenton wrote: What I need is advice on how to help her export the musical examples to EPS files that will embed in MS Word 2000 documents that can be sent to the printer and be portable. I'm sure you will get lots of different answers to this. Personally, for

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-06-27 Thread Scott J.
One of my clients is the editor of a scholarly music journal and is interviewing new graphic designers to manage the publication of the article. She has a grad student doing her musical examples in a recent version of Finale (2001 or 2002, not sure). She has a PostScript printer (HP 2100M) but

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-06-27 Thread Scott J.
One of my clients is the editor of a scholarly music journal and is interviewing new graphic designers to manage the publication of the article. She has a grad student doing her musical examples in a recent version of Finale (2001 or 2002, not sure). She has a PostScript printer (HP 2100M) but