I don't know what Eric does, but I use PageMaker all the time to prepare books. Many of them are instructionals, where the publisher will add a title page, for example, and there will be lots of text; others will add photographs. I can play with the layout of the book in PageMaker - changing text styles, sizes, on a global basis if for example, I need to reduce the page count, or if the author or publisher suddenly wants to use a different typeface for song titles. Imagine doing this in Finale! PageMaker is a very adequate book-making program, despite the fact that it is not updated for Mac OSX. And Finale eps has been the way I've been compiling them for a number of years now. (And as I've said before, I'm still using Finale 2003 and 2001 to do this).
I can place the music graphics, and when there are proof corrections to be made I can easily re-export the eps files, under the same names, so PageMaker will update them automatically. I haven't tried using pdf files for this yet - maybe soon I shall have to. But as far as I am concerned it's a giant step backwards. John Roberts On 5/26/05 9:41 PM, "Robert Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only way I can think of to create single-page PDF's is to print each > page one at a time. My recollection of creating EPS files is that you > can create a separate (single-page) EPS file for each page in a single > pass. This is a huge difference of effort. > > I'm sure there are good reasons to import into PageMaker (or other page > layout program) before printing. Is it mainly just to pick up logos, or > to mix in text? For, e.g., an extracted orchestra part I can't see much > benefit. Or am I missing something? _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
