On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:25:33 +0200, "Michael Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> The problem with the missing middle slash of the tremolo is due to a 
> fault in the Maestro font. If you open the font in a font editor you 
> can see that there are in fact three copies of the middle slash 
> superimposed. This mostly goes unnoticed, but will be seen when 
> printing with recent versions on Acrobat. Note that it makes no 
> difference which version you use to create the file: the defect is in 
> fact always there, but only shows up when printed through Acrobat 6 or 
> 7.
> 
> This was discussed on the MakeMusic forums: 
> http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=5&m=145572 and I am still 
> wondering why MakeMusic doesn't release a corrected version of the 
> font. Surely it can't be that hard to edit this one character by 
> removing two redundant copies of the middle slash?

I called the publishers today, and it really did seem to present them
problems working around it at late notice. I've just ended up editing
the articulation to make it a shape instead, composed of single tremolo
symbols stacked. This worked a treat, and took a couple of minutes. As
I'd already arranged with them to email something else direct to an
orchestral librarian in a few days, I'm going to have to do the same
thing with that work. It's interesting how what might seem like a small
matter presents such big problems. In the piece concerned, I was using a
lot of double and single line tremolo markings. It shatters my
confidence in using pdfs with finale at the moment, frankly.

David
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