On 8 Jul 2005 at 1:09, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > David W. Fenton schrieb: > >>And while we're at it, would it be asking too much to figure out > >>some way to transfer page setup data between platforms? I realize > >>the operation is done completely differently in Mac vs. Windows, but > >>information is information isn't it?--and should, therefore, > >>somehow be retrievable and transferrable. > > > > I'm not sure why there's a problem today. If you create a file with > > page layout definitions in it, you can save a library, or send the > > file to someone and they can save the library for page layout and > > import it into their document. Or use Robert's Settings Scrapbook to > > copy the settings. > > > > I'm not sure what you're asking for here that can't be done in a > > manner that's already pretty consistent with the way these things > > work in Finale. > > You are talking about Page layout, while Andrew was refering to Page > Setup. Two different things in Finale.
Do you mean printer-based page setup? Finale on Windows has never been very smart about page setup, unlike every other Windows program, that is smart enough to store information about page setup in the document file. > The problem Andrew describes has nothing to do with libraries, and it > is even a problem going from OS 9 to OS X. To my knowledge there is no > easy work around. Please enlighten me as to what Andrew is talking about. Whatever it is, if there's a data structure in Finale that already stores the information, there is no reason to assume that this data structure will not be duplicated in part views, in order that parts can have independent settings. -- 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
