The screen grab is very low rez (looks like 72 dpi, antialiased) and so
is too fuzzy for my use.
Aaron Sherber converted it for me from PDF to a 1200 dpi TIFF using
Adobe Acrobat, which does the job (thanks again, Aaron!) though it
doesn't address the larger issue of how to do this in the future.
Thanks for the idea, though.
Christopher
On Oct 25, 2005, at 10:32 PM, Scott Jones wrote:
Why not open the character you want to use in Appleworks since you
said it works there and then take a screen shot (Grab tool in OS X) of
it and insert it in your finale doc as a graphic?
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On Oct 25, 2005, at 9:38 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
I'm hoping someone who understands Unicode things can help me.
I'm trying to create a page turn arrow as a Measure Expression. Here
is one that is similar:
ÂZapf Dingbats at 48 pts
if you don't have Zapf Dingbats, then you will probably see a
capital A with a circumflex.
I can create this one no problem, but I actually want this more
exaggerated one:
Wingdings3 at 72 pts
if you don't have WingDings3 (or even if you do in my case!) then
you see a down arrow instead of a curved right arrow. This is what
shows up in Finale, even when I use Character Palette, which is
supposed to handle these things. The character I am looking at is in
the Unicode Table row F0C0 and column A, and I can only find it in
Wingdings 3 Regular.
So far, the only program I have been able to see it correctly in
(aside from Character Palette) is AppleWorks, and I can create a PDF
from it, but I can't get it imported in any way into Finale that I
can work out. Apparently the character will only show up in
Unicode-compliant programs, and Finale is not one of them. I would be
happy to import it as a graphic, but I can't create a graphic that
will import into Finale from AppleWorks. I can only create a PDF, or
a very low-resolution TIFF or JPEG, which are too jaggy to use. There
is no way I can find to increase the resolution of the TIFF beyond 72
DPI.
Does anybody have any strategies?
Thanks in advance.
Christopher
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