Your suggestion is fine. But the reason why eps don't work in winxp is a font problem! After Kurt Gnos last respond I was curious why my fix didn't work for him and it worked for me. I tried with my normal music font (Susato) and all was fine, then with some Finale fonts (Maestro, Petrucci) and the fonts wouldn't embed. I remembered I once had to do a little adjustment to this font when I switched to WinXP.
And now to the font fix: Open a music font in Fontlab and save it. That's all. No changes, nothing more. That will fix the eps export problem for Finale in WinXp! This is tested with Postscript type 1 font. Mike Cholewa PS. If anybody would like to try this just send a mail. I have 1mb zip file with Finale type 1 fonts that should work in WinXp. PPS. With this font fix you don't even have to use my Illustrator fix! Eps export works as it should. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Richard Yates > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:23 AM > To: 'Finale list' > Subject: Re: [Finale] Finale, EPS and PDF > > I have no use for EPS but found just now that this works: > > Save the page as pdf using Distiller. > Open in Acrobat. > Crop to the selection that you want in Acrobat. > Export as EPS. > > This seems to import okay into Word, but I cannot test printout as I have > no > ps printer. > > Also, a disadvantage is that cropping in Acrobat does not change (reduce) > the file size. > > Richard Yates > > > > > Kurt Gnos wrote: > >> Thanks Mike, > >> > >> I remembered this (and found the old e-mail) - but: Still won't work > >> for me, and I tried, yes I tried. I tried three different PS drivers > >> (including adobe generic), different settings, different fonts, but > >> a) when I embed them in Finale, nothing works > >> b) without embedding, the file works, but without noteheads; in > >> Illustrator I can exchange fonts, but the notehead fonts won't show > >> up in Maestro. > >> > >> BUT I have found a working, if somewhat tedius workaround: > >> > >> In Finale, instead of exporting via graphics tool (which would be a > >> LOT easier) I change page size (as some decades ago) until I have > >> the snippet I would like to export on this page. > >> Than I print it to acrobat 6 > >> In Acrobat 6 I export it as EPS (you can even include a preview by > >> changing the export settings) > >> And - seems to work (knock on wood). > >> > >> Also meens, instead of 30 seconds I will need some minutes, but > >> anyway, better than nothing. > >> > >> and yes, you will have to get acrobat for the workaround... > >> > >> Tell me if you find something better; at the moment I am happy to > >> have found some kind of temporal solution > >> > >> cheers > >> > >> Kurt > >> > >> At 20:06 29.09.2003 +0200, Mike Cholewa wrote: > >>> Here is my workaround that I used in a newly finished project that > >>> included eps graphic exported from Finale 2003 in WinXP. I had to > >>> deliver the final result in pdf. Besides Finwin 2003a I used > >>> Illustrator 10, Acrobat 6 and Postscript fonts only, no use of ATM. > >>> I have posted this earlier on the list and checked that the same > >>> things apply to Finale 2004: > >>> > >>> The following is a description of a successful use of > >>> eps in WinXP. (This was posted earlier on the Finale Forza-talk > >>> list.) > >>> > >>> It's a known fact that eps export doesn't work as it should in the > >>> Finale-WinXp combination. However I have found a way which makes > >>> this work - although there is a little glitch. After exporting the > >>> eps graphic from Finale (do not include fonts and preview) import > >>> this file in Illustrator (Adobe) and save it as an Illustrator eps > >>> file (version 3.0/3.2). This will include fonts for further Acrobat > >>> handling. The glitch is that I have found that a few chord symbols > >>> are badly aligned. But this is easily fixed in Illustrator. > >>> > >>> Mike Cholewa > >>> > >>> Btw. MakeMusic states that "Import and export of EPS files > >>> supported under Windows 98, NT 4.0 and ME only." See the Finale > >>> 2004 Upgrade Brochure > >>> (http://downloads.makemusic.com/dealers/finale/f2k4upgrade-mailer.pdf) > >>> page > >>> 19. > >>> > >>> > >>>> -----Original Message----- > >>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > >>>> Behalf Of Kurt Gnos > >>>> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 6:23 PM > >>>> To: Finale list > >>>> Subject: [Finale] Finale, EPS and PDF > >>>> > >>>> Yesterday I tried again to get Finale 2004 (WinXP) to produce EPS > >>>> or PDF files to import in Quark XPress. I don't want to use pixel > >>>> formats (TIFF), because I want the output scalable. > >>>> > >>>> First I tried EPS, using different settings and PS drivers. I only > >>>> got stems without noteheads, keys etc. This also happened when I > >>>> tried to print > >>>> a file on my PS printer. And, funny, after I deinstalled the > >>>> maestro PS font (using Adobe Type Manager), the fonts where there. > >>>> > >>>> Anyway Finale seems not to be able to embed fonts correctly, > >>>> Ghostscript for example shows lots of bugs and cannot even open a > >>>> Finale EPS file with embedded fonts. > >>>> > >>>> So I thought about PDF. It's less confortable, but I can change > >>>> the page size in Finale until I only have the part I want to > >>>> export on my page and save this page as PDF. > >>>> > >>>> I also can Import the file into QuarkXpress (Version 6, also > >>>> acrobat pro 6). However the file looks quite ugly on screen, but > >>>> this may be a problem of my not being very experienced in Quark > >>>> Xpress. HOWEVER, when I now printed the Quark Xpress File - the > >>>> noteheads had vanished again. > >>>> > >>>> So this is serious and very annoying - is there no way to get a > >>>> scalable vector output out of Finale, even with lots of > >>>> workarounds? Or is there? > >>>> > >>>> Kurt > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> |\\ > >>>> |// > >>>> /| Kurt Gnos Tel. /Fax +41 41 320 67 41 > >>>> / |_ Hackenrainstr. 6 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>> ( (| \\ CH-6010 Kriens > >>>> \_|_// Switzerland > >>>> | http://www.gnos.org > >>>> \\/ ICQ 16526151 > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Finale mailing list > >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Finale mailing list > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Finale mailing list > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
