Johannes Gebauer wrote:
I originally didn't like to give away my Finale files, but have changed my policy completely, and any client who wants it can have the originaly Finale file. A lot of the time it's no use to them anyway, because I use a number of fonts which I simply cannot give away for copyright reasons.
Apart from this, I recently gave away a Finale file which I had done for a client, and later some in-house engravers changed some of it. Much to my satisfaction I did actually notice in the final publication that they did not get anywhere close to my beam placements (the beams just use Finale's very own and very ugly beam placement). So now someone with a good eye for these things can look up the edition and easily find the place where they tampered with it. Fortunately my name is not published with it.
I've never provided a Finale file, and never will, for such reasons. I get plenty of requests for "a score that I can print my parts from", etc. Sometimes I've had to give an explanation of how unsatisfactory any one-click process to create parts can be, and that it's not much of a problem for me to prepare parts as well. There's no way I'm going to provide a product that constitutes files that can be screwed up by anybody with access to the software.
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