At 6:44 PM -0400 5/22/05, Darcy James Argue wrote:
I have also heard that there are (at least for
the moment) significant performance problems
with rotated displays. I suspect that the the
slow menus, etc., you are seeing are much more a
function of general screen-rotation performance
issues
My experience with Mac OS 10.4.1 (Tiger) and
Finale 2k5 was frustrating at first. The program
would crash frequently and often when opening a
file. This lousy performance was with my second
monitor in standard or in 90� rotation.
When Finale did work I found the screen drawing to be very slow.
All of this was solved by removing duplicate
music fonts from my user/library/fonts folder and
keeping the music fonts in my
system/library/fonts and in my system 9 folder.
Suddenly the program worked as expected and
screen draw time was back to normal.
I also recommend removing
com.apple.ATS
from /Library/Caches and then rebooting.
(This trick has been noted here earlier.)
People might miss this solution because it wasn't
necessary under the previous system (10.3.9)
Tiger somehow changes things.
A second thing that I did to increase speed was
to set "Spotlight" NOT to index the Finale temp
files. Spotlight is a new Tiger search feature
which is always working in the background. Every
time a file changes, it indexes that change.
There is no need to waste cycles on the Finale
temp files.
Rotation works like a charm if you have the right
card/monitor. I use a PowerBook 17" as my
computer with a 20" Apple Cinema Display as my
second monitor. People should bear in mind that
using a second monitor can make things a little
slower than using only 1 screen. I don't find
that rotation is any slower than standard, but it
is marginally less clear to read.
Tiger has some conflicts with Finale in terms of
key commands, but you can change the conflicts in
system preferences/keyboard and mouse/keyboard
shortcuts and changing the shortcut for "move
focus to the window drawer". This one conflicted
with changing the view from scroll to page view.
One last thing: I can't get the command-Q to work
in Finale and Tiger. The program quits when you
use the menu, but not the key command!
If you are thinking of upgrading to Tiger, you
might want to hang on to this email for future
reference and save yourself days of hair pulling.
-Randolph Peters
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