----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Worsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 4:15 PM Subject: [Finale] system nonsense
> This may have been discussed before and I missed it, but I'm having a > problem I haven't had before (macFin 2004c). It just began and I am > baffled. I've used Finale since the 80s in every version up to 2004, > and have not seen this problem, unless I forget to update layout: > > I am trying to print out a piano/vocal score created from a fuller > score (two string parts). I made a new file, deleting the other > parts, so there are no "hidden" staves. Of course, having deleted > the other two staves, I can get the piano/vocal score on fewer pages. > But two things have happened: > > 1) Many of the pages have duplicate systems. For example, system 3 > might appear on page 1, but it recurs at the top of page 2, and so > on. It doesn't ALWAYS happen, so it's even more baffling. > > 2) There are now empty pages, sometimes two or three, at the end of the score. > > Updating the layout does NOTHING. The duplicate staves and the extra > blank pages remain stuck. > > This problem has begun happening on other files as well, so it's > causing me innumerable problems. I thought it might be because I had > optimized the staves on a few of those files, but some are not > optimized, and they still result in extra blank pages and duplicated > systems from one system to another (never duplicated on the same > page.) > > The only thing that is consistent is that all these problem files > have been created from fuller scores, with some of the original > staves removed. > > Do I have something turned on that should be off, or the other way > 'round? Or is this a monstrous bug in the program? > > Help! > > Linda Worsley > > I don't understand if you have tried to optimize the full new score you created or not. Have you tried to create a new file from the old one, select the linear view and do the "delete staff and reposition" on the staves you don't want to see anymore? Sorry if I did not understand if you already tried these solutions. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
