At 10:41 PM 4/23/06 +0200, dc wrote: >People used to say the same thing about Score. What is it that looked so >good and that can't be done in Finale (besides the font issues)? >Are there any of these amazing samples to be seen anywhere?
http://www.graphire.com/Pages/Framesets/framesmpexam.htm One zoom-in page is unavailable, the rest are still there. All the PDFs are there. The thing that made Graphire work was not only the font, which preceded almost all the other programs (especially Finale) with a good-looking font, but also the excellent default spacing and beam angles. It was all tweakable, but the defaults were so good. Poor defaults really made basic Finale output look bad for a long time. People see the defaults, not the tweaks. Graphire was also very small and very fast to draw. Basically it was a pleasure to use for entering traditional music. Editing was another matter, and I disliked editing a lot, much of which involved re-entering material. It also used levels, much like page design programs, so that elements to be found on every page were set in separate guide pages. Partial pages were easy to create, as were short cues or examples for books. Much of what's hard in Finale is easy in Graphire -- and unfortunately, vice versa. :) Dennis -- Please participate in my latest project: http://maltedmedia.com/waam/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
