At 08:27 PM 1/23/05 +0100, d. collins wrote: >As if I had nothing better to do, I continued to fool around with Finale >and PDFs. Amusingly, I checked my old mailboxes and found exactly the same >questions making the rounds three years ago, with the same suspects (in >particular Jari, the other Dennis, and myself). At the time, there was much >talk about the OwnPS=0 setting one could add the finale.ini file. Well, I >just gave it a try, and it gives excellent PDFs over here, very >good-looking and Mac-like on screen (but only in recent versions of the >Reader), and - more importantly, at least for me - print-out much closer to >the direct print-out from Finale.
I had forgotten about OwnPS=0. It still doesn't work in WinFin2K3 for compiled PS, but it sure does a better job on-screen for files printed to PS and distilled. I have Reader 5, and it's very good: the lines are still not equal, but much cleaner-looking -- and none of the ugly scrubbly look to the display. In printing to PDF, however, the results were much better. With Distiller's PDF print driver resolution set to 2400dpi, the on-screen and print versions were terrific ... and hardly any bigger than resolution set to 600dpi, where the on-screen had a little irregularity in staff lines. >3) The printing to PDF takes over 30 (!) times longer than without this >setting (over 30 seconds per page, as opposed to less than 1 second), on a >2.4 GHz Pentium machine with plenty of RAM. Printing to PS was normal (because the wait is for Distiller to load the fonts), but printing to PDF the first time (which loads all the font sets on my machine, which is bunches) took 4:30 until the printing progress screen appeared (running 1.4GHz Athlon). Subsequent printing without re-running Finale decreased the time-to-print-progress to about 15 seconds, with subsequent pages printed with no delays. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
