Hi Howard,
Can you explain a bit more about what you do? I'm puzzled about what .txt and .prn files have to do with the process. The process I use is to print from Finale to a PostScript file, which I then distill to PDF. Aside: printing to PDF gives me problems with fonts---the files won't display on other machines. When I go through PostScript to PDF I get portable PDF files). Anyway, after I get the songs in PDF files, I simply open one of them, and drag and drop the others into it one by one. If I drag and drop a group of files, they end up in random order. Then I prepare a cover page and TOC with a word processor, generate PDF from it, and drag and drop it into the emerging collective PDF. So, for my education, where do the txt and prn files enter your process? Thanks, Phil Shaw - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Howard Rigby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Phil et al- > > what you've described is what I've done for a while > (sort of)... I use > Distiller and make a dummy .txt file that points to > the folder with .prn > files. The only problem here is that unless you're > very careful to move the > files one by one into a new folder before distilling > then the movements are > likely to be waaaaay out of sequence. > This is a good arrangement until I have a few dozen > instrumental, choral, > conducting files, etc, to add together, and it's too > much thinking for me! > > ain't this list great?! thanks, Phil- > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Phil Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Finale list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 6:32 PM > Subject: [Finale] Re: PDF manipulation > > > > > > You can easily concatenate multiple PDF files > > into one. I do that e.g. after I've generated > > PDF files for a bunch of songs. I concatenate > them > > into one PDF file, then add on a cover page > > and TOC (generated from a word processor). > > Then I can distribute one PDF file > > with all the stuff, and the recipient does one > > PRINT command. > > > > To do this, open any one of the source PDF files > > in Acrobat. Then drag and drop the next one. A > > menu box will pop up asking you whether the new > > one should be BEFORE or AFTER the current one. > > You can then obviously drag and drop a blank > > page. > > > > I have not found any way to delete PDF pages, > > so if I goof up the process, I just start over. > > > > I have also not found any way to add composite > page > > numbers or heading lines. > > > > So the technique isn't complete and perfect, > > but it's simple and useful. > > > > Phil Shaw - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > http://okshaw.com > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More > > http://faith.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
