On 22.04.2006 David Horne wrote:
I just received a copy of a score from my publishers this morning, and noticed that two and three line tremolo markings (originally using Maestro) haven't printed correctly. The two line tremolo only has one line, and the three line tremolo, two- the middle one 'missing' so it looks a little odd. I can't replicate this problem on print outs at home- the pdfs look and print absolutely fine. I created the pdfs through the built in pdf generator in OS X (10.4.6). Everything else in the print out is fine. I'm using Finale 2005. I was struck by a similar oddity over a year ago, and since then, haven't had any problems. I'd assumed things were OK, but this is a little alarming- just wondering if anyone else had noticed this?
As far as I remember there is a problem which MakeMusic blames on Acrobat Reader version 5. I think later versions of Reader might be ok.
You could try to save your Finale file as a PS file (from the print dialog), and then open that PS file in Preview. From there you can save it as PDF. It's possible that this will prevent the problem.
When I experienced similar problems I was able to solve them using PStill. Since I use PStill on all my PDFs (as a print dialog plugin). Occasionally, when EPS graphics are involved, I save as PS file first, and then send this through PStill. This gives me high accuracy PDFs which take much less space than the ones Apple produces.
Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
