On 9/28/06 4:18 AM, Dennis Collins wrote: > Here's what I did: I added a few glyphs I regularly need into empty slots > of the Maestro T1 font. On the screen, everything is fine. It also prints > out fine on the HP printer. But when I print to PDF, the music font is gone > and everything is blank. All the other T1 fonts of the score are there. I > checked that embedding was allowed. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it. I > rebooted. But still no luck. I know I've done this before, and I regularly > use fonts edited and even created by myself. Any idea where I went wrong > this time? > > Thanks, > Dennis
Dennis, I use Finale 2005, and, I've been having postscript problems -- as has a friend of mine using postscript from Finale 2006 (both on Mac). One friend was trying to use Subito's service for printing, made pdfs of his orchestral scores. They came back without instrument names, and with all 3-slash tremolos missing the middle slash. My way of working -- going back to the bad old days when Finale had no decent page layout -- is to create EPS files of each page, put them into Pagemaker, and print from there. Finale's way of creating EPS (at least as of FinMac 2005-2006) is flawed. My largest problems have been with engraver tuplets, which seem to disappear, not all the time, but randomly, most often when the right side of a bracket has been extended. By finding these through proofreading of eps files, and replacing each with non-engraver tuplets, the problem goes away. When I've tried making pdf files directly from Finale, using the OSX printer option (I have the most recent OSX), I get the missing middle slash in tremolos, and some other things drop out as well. I've also tried Finale's export to postscript command (to make a .ps file), and that drops out other things. The reason I still work this way is that I find Finale messes up pages over time in little ways -- most particularly mid-measure clefs jumping around. I like to have a page exactly the way I want it, and then a permanent record of it that is not version reliant. Also, using Pagemaker files that link to a single set of eps files, corrections mean making an eps of the new page only, and I have easy access to a lot of layout possibilities that require multiple steps in Finale (every time). I will soon be switching to an intel mac, which means I lose Pagemaker (since intel macs won't support classic, and Pagemaker is a classic program). So I've been learning InDesign. A new problem crops up. When InDesign links to Finale eps files, they print all fonts in italics! If I create a pdf file from InDesign, using their pdf export function, all is well -- and the most recent Adobe reader has decent control of printing and resizing. This makes a set of silly multiple steps -- export Finale to EPS, put those into InDesign, proofread for tuplets, export that to pdf. But it seems to work. I hear from the press releases that Finale 2007 has "fixed" previous eps problems. Is that true?? That would make an upgrade worth it for me -- though I'll probably upgrade anyway after a maintenance release comes out. David Froom _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
