Listmates... I have had excellent luck with a print driver called PDF995. It renders PDFs well and quickly from WinFin 2004. Is it as nice as an original from Finale itself? Probably not, but professional players have received them from me and not complained. I havent printed the PDF 995 output on a first-rate printer yet, though. In my case, I use the PDFs as a "copy protection" and/or "re-arranging protection" mechanism for people to whom I email my scores & parts, so total elegance is not a strict requirement. You get a nag screen if you don't pay the 9.95. It's worth $9.95 in terms of reduced frustration alone. Jim W.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jari Williamsson
Sent: Tue 18-Jan-05 17:25
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Subject: Re: [Finale] PDF disaster
d. collins wrote:
> I can't get Finale to produce decent PDF files: not only do they look
> terrible on screen, with staff (and other) lines of different
> thicknesses, but I just noticed they print out the same way on a HP
> Laserjet (non postscript). The staff lines are much thicker than in
the
> print-out directly from Finale and the thickness varies from one line
to
> another. Same thing for word extensions.
I have Acrobat 5 and a HP LaserJet 2000M and I have never had this
problem. However, what you describe sounds like a vertical stretch issue
somewhere along the line - some places to start looking:
1. Compare page size in Finale document against Distiller page size.
2. Look in Acrobat printer settings so there isn't stretching going on
there
Best regards,
Jari Williamsson
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