Good grief. I am a new Finale user....using 2007. Just getting started. I sure hope I don't have the kinds of printing problems you speak of or I will be extremely dissappointed.
-steve On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:51:39 -0400, "David Froom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- |"Music is a manifestation of the human spirit Steve Schow | similar to a language. If we do not want such [EMAIL PROTECTED] | things to remain dead treasures, we must do our www.bstage.com | upmost to make the greatest number of people | understand their secrets" -- Zoltan Kodaly ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
