On 27 May 2005 at 9:29, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > David W. Fenton schrieb: > > Now, I do think that the argument that PDF is now native to OS X is > > a persuasive one in terms of arguing what Finale should support on > > OS X. However, there is no such native support in Windows, nor do I > > know if the next major release of Windows, Longhorn, will > > incorporate PDF support. Given that MS is trying to create a > > competing standard, Metro (see > > http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,1 > > 01 344,00.html, all on one line, of course), I strongly doubt it. > > > > Thus, MakeMusic would be required to support two completely > > different formats on the two different versions of Finale. That goes > > against the recent history of the design of Finale, which has been > > as far as possible identical in functionality on both Windows and > > Mac (though the UI may have slight variations appropriate to the > > platform). > > Finale always supported two different native graphics formats, TIFF > and PICT. Eventually TIFF was included on the Mac platform as well, as > the Mac uses that, too. But as far as I know Pict is only supported on > the Mac platform.
But PICT is a bitmapped graphics format, no? That means it's not an entirely new class of format to support it. > PDF will be the future for any graphics based app on the Mac, and I am > pretty sure that Finale will eventually have to include PDF export. > It's probably not even a big deal, as most of it would be handled by > the OS anyway. Perhaps in 2k8. Microsoft is a problem for small software makers like MakeMusic, who get caught in the middle of competing standards. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
