On 1/27/06, dc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Froom écrit: >> I have a colleague who has a lot of files made in Finale 98 on an >> OS9 old Mac. He just got FinMac 2006 on a new iBook with 10.4.4. >> The old files had Petrucci as default font. >> >> I showed him how to change the default font, one file at a time, >> to Maestro or Engraver. But >> >>1) is there a better of faster way to do this? > > Batch treatment with Finalescript.
That Finalescript should read: batch process folder //process subdirectories music font "fontname" lock systems note spacing save and append "_2k6" close Next, just place all of the desired files in a folder (if some of the files are in subfolders of that folder, remove the "//" from the second line to process all files in the folder tree) and select that folder as the batch folder-- third button from the right in the inalescript pallette. Put the desired font in place of "fontname" and keep the quotes. "Lock systems" and "note spacing" are optional. I include them since changing the music font can mess up spacing, so these steps will make sure that measures-per-system remain the same but new spacing is applied to account for the change in noteheads. The next line saves the file with a new name (it adds "_2k6" before the ".mus") so that the original files are untouched, and then the file is closed and the next is opened. I would definitely recommend making a backup of all files before running the script on them, just in case anything untoward happens by chance. Hope this helps! -- Brad Beyenhof Real-time Finale discussion: http://www.finaleirc.com my blog: http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. ~ Igor Stravinsky _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
