At 10:47 AM -0700 5/9/02, Philip Aker wrote: >I've already sent over my request for Finale Macintosh Defaults not >to come setup with alien fonts like Ariel and Times New Roman. > >WRT to page reductions though, I've used page reduction with fixed >size page text blocks for years.
I've always used page reduction and haven't found it to be a problem. Maybe there's something I've been missing, some adjustments that I'm making that would be unnecessary if I used system reduction, but I'm quite used to this. Most parts are at 82% (smaller than that gets a little hard for old eyes, like mine, to read). Sometimes, if the page is particularly sparse, I will use 85%. I have noticed that changing form 82 to 85 requires some system margin adjustment, often finnicky and annoying, but I have accepted this as part of the deal. Am I doing more fussing than I need to be doing? I have also gotten used to the resulting sizes when the text blocks and measure expressions are not fixed. Again, maybe I should explore the methods suggested here. My working habits have become so ingrained that even things that I learn on the list that indicate the possibility of improvement in the results of my "engraving" sometimes take me a while to implement. I must be getting old. >Probably for the same reasons as jef. While copyists tend to work >with the idea of page size being fixed, Finale also enables one to >work with a "flow" method where the page sizes may be changeable. >When using a flow method, if you don't have a fixed type size for >publication details (i.e. page text blocks) then in some cases, they >may be reduced to 4 or 5 points and not be legible. > >Also, I personally haven't had a problem with text block placement >using page reduction since I started putting page text blocks (i.e. >headers and footers) OUTSIDE the margins. 'Nother thing is that I >get better results with staff spacing. Hmmmm. That's an interesting idea. Chuck -- Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham WA 98225-5836 (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
