On 9 Mar 2005 at 13:20, dhbailey wrote: > Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > > > > IN all honesty, given the installed base of files out there in > > Finale Formats, even if MakeMusic! were to completely dissapear > > tomorrow, I doubt that it would be more than a few months before > > someone else had a package out that would read files created with > > Finale. > > Sibelius does that now.
To what degree of accuracy? That is, how much of the original layout is lost? How much of what is lost can be recovered by re-editing in Sibelius? It it is accomplished with the Dolet plugin, all you need to know is to save a Finale file with it, and then open the XML version again, and compare it to the original. While it does an admirable job of getting the essence of the original layout, it would still require a huge amount of work to get it back to the original look. >From what I hear, Sibelius can't even replicate some Finale layout characteristics, so you're not really get full read/write capability. And, of course, how could anyone argue that being able to edit your file (imperfectly) with Sibelius would be preferable to being able to edit it with Finale in perpetuity? And then there's also the issue of then being able to continue to use the key-unlocked Finale to create new files after the demise of MakeMusic. How anyone can claim these things are comparable or that it wouldn't be better for MM to provide the key escrow is simply beyond my comprehension. No one but an apologist for MM should be convinced by such arguments. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
