On 16 Mar 2004 at 17:10, Phil Daley wrote: > At 3/16/2004 01:57 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > > >You never zoom past 100%? > > Why would I? Everything is readable at that point.
Don't you ever do any find positioning? I believe that Coda has told us that to get absolutely accurate positioning (i.e., so that what you see onscreen is precisely what you get in printouts), you need only position at 400%. I can't say that I spend lots of time at sizes higher than 100%, but just today I twice dropped into 200% in page view to make some adjustments for some mis-positioned grace notes (which, of course, are always wrongly spaced). I don't see how anyone who ever prints could not frequently need to work at something bigger than 100% to get decent positioning. [] > For instance, if I make a change to a global header file, when I > recompile, it takes 15-20 minutes. That gives me the opportunity to > switch to Finale and add a few bars. But I have to monitor email, IM > and the compile status. I need to see some part of all the windows at > once. ??? You're on Windows, right? The TaskBar? Doesn't that tell you what's running? And when a compile finishes, is there no notification in the form of a modal dialog or something? If so, the taskbar icon should flash, telling you that it's finished. Of course, if you've got the TaskBar hidden, you won't see it. But if you're doing that, then you're forced to do what you've said, which is *not* run maximized, so you're making life more difficult for yourself by hiding the TaskBar. I say, \/\/hatever, but it strikes me rather backwards to hide the all the widgets the OS provides for you to manage multi-tasking and then say this forces you to operate in a certain mode. No, it's the fact that you're not using the tools provided to you that forces you to that mode. Perhaps you hate the TaskBar -- many people do -- but I have made my peace with it long ago, since using it the way it was designed makes you more productive. > >Also, scroll view and page view have different ideal screen > >configurations. Scroll view screens want to be as long as possible, > >and page view screens want to be as tall as possible. Unless you > want >to modify your window size every time you switch views, the > best >solution is to have a window that both as long and as tall as > your >screen allows. > > I agree, if that was the only thing you are doing. Since I am always > doing multiple things at a time, I always switch the screen size when > changing modes. Since that is such a drag, i usually don't switch > modes, until I have more time to fool around with whole page stuff. I work with all my apps maximized and switch between them with Alt- Tab or using the TaskBar. I don't need partial windows to leave other apps visible behind the app with the focus. Of course, if I had two really huge monitors, maybe I'd do things differently, but I don't. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
