Haven't you considered converting all, your Finale and MS Word docs to
PDF and printing from there? pdf allows you to impose your document any
way you want or need, and you can choose whatever resolution you desire.
Godofredo
dhbailey wrote:
Ryan Beard wrote:
Hello Listers and Lurkers,
I’m working on a song cycle for a client. He wants a
table of contents with dot leaders to appear at the
front of the collection. I know Finale’s Text Block
tool is pretty primitive, but can it handle something
like this? Is there away to make the “tab” a fixed
distance rather than a set number of spaces so things
will at least align properly? I think I’ve looked into
every text block setting Finale offers, and nothing
seems to get me what I want.
I’ve made a nice looking ToC in MS Word. I’d rather
import that into Finale since all the work is done and
the alignment is what I want. However, I’ve
encountered some problems here as well. This is my
procedure: From MS Word, I use OS X’s print dialog to
make a PDF file. I open that PDF in Preview (OS X’s
default graphics viewer), export that as a TIFF, and
finally import the TIFF into Finale. But MS Word’s
resolution is set at 72dpi, so when I print the TIFF
from Finale, it looks like bad dot matrix output! I’ve
downloaded the trial version of Graphic Converter
(don’t know a URL...), but that doesn’t seem to help
either, since the original from Word is only 72dpi.
Here are my questions: 1) Can Finale’s Text Block tool do what I want
it to
do with dot leaders, tabs, alignment, etc?
2) Can MS Word’s resolution be changed so that my
graphic importing method works? I think 300dpi would
do.
3) Is it worth buying the full version of Graphic
Converter to accomplish this task?
4) Is there something else I could do? I’ve thought about several
workarounds, namely
multiple text blocks for the ToC — one for the titles
and one for the numbers, and possibly another for the
dot leaders. The other workaround is to keep the ToC
in Word, and just re-feed the pages to the printer.
I’d REALLY like to have all this info in one document
since the song cycle is probably going to reach 200
pages, and might be in two volumes (which would
require a 2nd ToC!).
Someone please help!
Finale won't do what you want, but if it's a separate page, why not
just print it in MSWord? I do that all the time for my title pages,
tables of contents and any explanatory notes for a work that are more
than a single paragraph.
There's no need to incorporate that into the Finale file at all.
Use the proper tool for the job.
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