On 21 Jul 2005 at 17:16, Lora Crighton wrote:

> On 7/21/05, Johannes Gebauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > what I'd like to know: why is the Finale example a scanned image, and
> > not a direct PDF from the source file?
> 
> I don't have the Adobe program that I would need to create a PDF file.
>  I'm using Finale 2002 on a laptop running Windows 98 - it didn't seem
> worth it to get the Adobe, because the only person I was ever trading
> files with had the same version I do.  Usually I just give people
> printed copies.
> 
> I sent both the source file & the scan, and he said the scan was going to be 
> OK.

There are free programs to create PDFs on PCs. I use PDF995. Finale 
doesn't produce very good results for staff lines, though. It prints 
just fine, but looks terrible onscreen. An example:

  http://www.dfenton.com/Rose/Rose.PDF

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David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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