At 02:35 PM 1/18/2005, Jim Williams wrote:
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 . . .
I too use PDF995 and it does a fair job, but the printout is not as crisp as direct Finale output. Every thing prints a little thicker and the lines (particularly the staff lines) do indeed print at slightly varying thicknesses. Also when you zoom in various elements aren't as well lined up. For instance flags and beams do not align precisely with the stems and likewise stems with note heads. Finale is not always perfect in this regard but the PDFs are a couple of pixels or so further misaligned.
PDT995 works ok for e-mailing files to those who don't have Finale (or have an older version) But it would be nice to have better PDF output to provide print-ready files for the print shop. Any suggestions or better solutions that you power users might have would be greatly appreciated.
I have also used PrimoPDF with the same results.
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.
The variation I notice is slight.
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
This isn't the problem with me either since page setting are the same and there is no stretch.
Regards,
SteveO
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