At 10:26 PM 4/20/06 -0700, Eric Dannewitz wrote: >You know, I owned Graphire Music Press once upon a time. I still have >the little doggle and disk as well. What did you do to get it to work >with Finale? Did you have to create Font Annotation?
It was a lot of work, bu The items had to be re-ordered and moved into Finale's positions (from $0000 to $F000), the elements re-positioned, combo sets created, missing characters created, superfluous characters removed, etc. Graphire created characters (such as pppp and sfz and dotted accents and short rests) from individual components, but Finale has them pre-built. I also had to give the characters metrics for width (they have zero width in Graphire), assemble 16th note flags, create kerning pairs, and make various individual notes that Finale also makes available as symbols. I also made corrections to the characters (there were numerous invalid characters, which apparently doesn't affect their presentation), and then adjusted the curves on some of them a little more to my taste. For the moment, the characters Finale doesn't use are stored in the upper range of the font, inaccessible by Finale. If this goes anywhere for release, I'll also create an "extras" font with them. Overall, setting the vertical positions was the hardest job because I couldn't edit the font 'live' and had to uninstall/reinstall for every test pass. And yes, I did create the font annotation files. Dennis -- Please participate in my latest project: http://maltedmedia.com/waam/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
