On 28 Jul 2005 at 11:52, dennis c. wrote: > Michael Good écrit: > . . . Have a look for yourself here (and anyone > else who's interested): > > http://www.philomela.net/sib/ > > where I put the beginning of two different pieces with GIFs from > Finale 2004 and screenshots of the result imported in Sibelius 4 as > ETF and as XML. The names of the files speak for themselves.
Wow, your work is quite beautifully engraved! Anyway, here's my examples of the same thing, from WinFin2K3 to the Sibelius 4 demo: http://www.dfenton.com/Sib/ The ETF import into Sibelius was pretty good. Yes, it has some problems (notably, the sf being the wrong size for some reason, and the misplaced staff names), but it wouldn't take a huge amount of work to get it into publishable condition. And, to be honest, the first system, at least, looks better in Sibelius than it does in Finale (I haven't done final layout on the source file, so it isn't very good engraving to start with), because Sibelius's glyphs just look more attractive to me. Also, you'll note that Sibelius's onscreen display is more readable than Finale's (FoersterX_Finale.gif is a screenshot, while FoersterX.gif is a TIF export) because Sibelius seems to anti-alias the display fonts better than Finale. If I were somehow forced to convert to Sibelius, I'm sure I'd hate it, but I don't think it would be impossible to get my files into printable shape. But I also think it's not all that relevant. I can't conceive of circumstances where this would be required in the first place. If someone wanted to use my Finale files as the basis for a published edition, they'd definitely be making a huge number of changes if using Finale directly, and might even start over from scratch, even in Finale. -- 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
