Page setup is now lost in extracted part files and is coming out as a default US letter size. This always used to be retained as the last 'saved' page setup in the score/extract file and would come out in all the parts then extracted from that file. It is now necessary to go through EVERY extracted part to change the page setup - very tiresome. Interestingly enough (or not as you see it), this same thing happened some versions back (2001/2?) and was subsequently fixed in a maintenance upgrade.
The Hide/Show message bar option under preferences doesn't work, it defaults back to showing the message bars after every restart and also after page view changes with in the same file ( or when returning from another window set to another view). Also when the message bar is showing it is taking 2 selections from the view menu to hide it which I'm sure is not correct and just for good measure the menu shows 'Show Menu Bar' when it is already showing.
Editing of any page text block, deleting and deleting any staff expression while in multiple page view results in loss of the multiple page view and it needs to be reset again after exiting the page block that has been edited.
Adjusting of Lyric syllables is painfully slow (12 secs for one word nudged up one space!)
Watch out for the new choices under 'File maintenance'. I would have prefered to be able to have saved these under preferences. They could be dangerous in the sense that they delete expressions etc., and the user might inadvertently lose precious template settings. It's a shame these weren't set to default as unchecked and then let the user decide which ones were needed. This approach is not consistent in other menus, for example the mass mover settings are all unchecked on start up and add check marks from there, but again it is not possible to save these under preferences.
The drawing of cresc/dim hairpins (smart shapes) is clunky. I click and drag and nothing shows until I drag a little further, then the shape suddenly appears, this never happened in previous versions.
Explode music takes things across into the appointed exploded staves like artics and expressions and slurs but for some strange reason any hairpin smart shapes do not come out in the exploded parts (this is not a bug, just a quirk that needs fixing)
Extracting parts is very much slower than in Finmac 2003.
Most editing actions became very much slower once my file got to be over 300K which is not exactly a large file. Editing lyrics was probably the most painful, but I am getting the spinning coloured wheel far too frequently, even when just editing in speedy entry.
Score expressions applied to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th beat of a measure, given a staff listing and then given an individual positioning become erratic when extracted into a separate part. If the indiv. pos. is then taken off in the extracted part the score expression jumps forward and places itself over the next measure along. In other words, the extracted parts can't be trusted to be true to the score settings.
In an extracted vocal score form a larger score several slurs (smart shapes) are missing and haven't come through in the extracted part which is rather worrying. The sections concerned appears to be at random but many of the slurs seem to be missing in similar zones. The extracted part is multi staved (piano and 2 vocal lines). They are missing only from the 3rd stave down (the RH piano stave) but from both layers. They are mainly long phrase mark slurs stretching over 2 to 4 measures and they are all 'engraver on'. The part has been optimised but the areas concerned are on un-optimised systems.
Jonathan Smith
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