Don Hart wrote:
Guess I was a bit unclear. The lack of recognition of the text blocks
doesn't just misplace them. They are gone with the blank page to which they
were attached. Having two blank pages is no help and results in both being
"cleared" and a final page with a tidy, final double bar, which seems the
only way to appease the Finale goblins.
You just have to add that final blank page after you have deleted any
measures you want deleted.
I have just experimented with this (WinFin2006) and I find the following:
1) adding a blank page, and placing a text block on it works fine.
2) AFTER adding the blank page and then deleting a measure, any measure,
the blank page disappears.
3) AFTER adding the blank page, and doing anything else to the layout
except deleting a measure, the blank page remains (with or without the
text block, it makes no difference).
From this I conclude that the blank page is somehow tied to that final
measure, specifically by number. So if there is a 20-measure work and a
blank page is added, that is fine until a measure is deleted and then
measure 20 becomes measure 19 and that blank page (with or without text
blocks) disappears. Adding a measure, so the final measure is measure
21, doesn't remove that blank page, which is what makes me think that
somehow the measure number that is the final measure number when the
blank page is added has to remain as an active measure.
Deleting a measure, so the 20-measure file is now 19 measures long, and
then adding a measure, making it 20 measures again does NOT add the
blank page.
Adding a measure, so the 20-measure file is now 21 measures long doesn't
delete the blank page, but if you then delete ANY measure to return the
now-21-measure-long file back to its original 20-measure length DOES
delete the blank page.
So somehow the blank page at the end is attached to the final measure
number in the score, so that if you add an extra measure and raise that
final measure's number, the blank page is now attached to that measure
number. Changes that "attachment" all the time, in other words. And as
soon as what is now the final measure number gets lower, that blank page
disappears.
Very strange behavior -- nothing I haven't come to expect from Finale,
however.
But do pay attention to the great textured backgrounds we can select
from, as well as the new Kontakt-II player that's coming with Finale2007.
We don't need them stinking final pages if they don't contain no music,
anyhow. Forget those things and listen to the great sounds of GPO!
--
David H. Bailey
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