Hi Dennis, On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 16:56 -0400, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > I don't have a Postscript printer. I am creating PDFs for download and for > my own printing on various non-PS printers. That's why the screen display > and size are important -- so those folks auditioning the files can get a > good, clean look and fast download.
OK, so just to be certain, you are following this procedure: 1) Compile postscript in Finale, or export EPS, with AdobePS 4.5.3 printer driver 2) Running that file through Distiller (v5) and/or GS (v8.53) 3) Output has misplaced 16th note flag And, if you: 1) Print from Finale normally, to either a postscript or non-postscript printer *or* print directly to the distiller driver 2) Output has correctly placed 16th note flag As an aside, are you running Windows 98? I believe XP should have the PScript5 driver. Anyways, an experiment then: 1) Install a different Postscript printer driver - try the HP LaserJet 5000 one, or possibly the HP LaserJet 4MP 2) try compiling and/or exporting and see if the result is the same > I don't know how to read the character placements. The sixteenth note's > flag is the "r" character (114 or $72) The same flag in the same place in > the score's EPS file (with the only change being the default music font, > and then compiled) for Maestro and RevereFinale read respectively (two > different 16th note flags shown). > > (r) 4.431 4602.9976 5203.5835 flup > /Maestro ff 164 scf stf > (r) 4.431 4604.2788 5203.5835 flup > /RevereFinale ff 164 scf stf OK, so these are Postscript commands, the first one is pushing the character r (the brackets are enclosing the string literal) followed by three floating point numbers on to the stack and then executing function 'flup' on them. I'm not sure what that function is, but I would expect that those numbers are some sort of placement information (likely scale, x-position and y-position). The next line is setting the font information for Maestro/RevereFinale (ff = findfont, scf=scalefont and stf=setfont, with 164 being the scaling factor). What is interesting is that there is a discrepancy between the two examples - a (possible) x-position of 4602.9976 versus 4604.2788, which would position it slightly to the left. Is your glyph width for the 16th note flag the same for both fonts? And the glyph origin point is the same as well? Give this a try: 1) Edit the RevereFinale postscript listing and change the 4604.2788 to 4602.9976. The file is plain-text, so you can just use Notepad or Wordpad to do this. 2) Run this edited file through Distiller and/or Ghostscript and see how it affects the x-positioning. I'm just guessing on this, and flup could do something totally different, but it seems plausible. Let me know what happens. Best, Scott _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
