On 02/08/05, dc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > P.S. What about the textured paper? This was announced as one of the new > major features. I haven't read many comments ;-).
Actually, the textured paper is pretty cool. I thought it was kind of a silly addition, but it really makes the music easier to work with. The contrast involved when the page is solid bright white onscreen was more difficult for my eyes than I even realized before I used the new texture. Definitely not worth $100 all by itself, but I find the textured paper does add immensely to the overall "feel" of the program. In addition, EPS export is lightning-fast in Finale 2006 (on Mac, anyway). The Font Warning dialog is still there, but each page takes only a fraction of a second to create (as opposed to the 45-60 seconds it took in Finale 2005). And with my FinaleScript/QuicKeys solution to EPS exporting, I exported EPS files from 26 Finale documents (resulting in a total of 46 EPS files) in about 20 minutes. And that's counting modifying the macro and script to work with Finale 2006. Also, I'd like to add that I'm experiencing the Mass Edit lag as well. I'm on a 1GHz G4 with 1.25GB of RAM running OS 10.3.9. In addition to the Mass Edit lag, there's a lag with dragging. When I create selection boxes in the Expression or Text tools (for example), I can click and start draggin, but there's a noticeable delay before the box shows up. Additionally, dragging elements don't update immediately. If I click an expression and move it a bit, there's some lag before it "jumps over" to the new cursor position. In both situations, once the short (.5sec or so) delay occurs, everything else happens in realtime. -- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] my blog: http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com Life would be so much easier if only (3/2)^12=(2/1)^7. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
