On Jul 20, 2007, at 6:39 AM, shirling & neueweise wrote:
very strange thing... in a file i am working on, the first time
sigs and clefs appearing on the system have turned grey as if they
were hidden elements, but show up in the same tone of grey in the
PDF. this happens starting on the page where i had just inserted a
measure (linked parts have alreayd been generated) and goes to the
end of the file.
i have already trashed the prefs, which seemed to resolve the
problem, but then it reappeared as i changed view percentage. i
continued to change the view percentage and sometimes the time sigs/
clefs would appear normal (maybe 10% of the time).
removing staff styles on the inserted measure doesn't change
anything, it seems that only deleting the measure fixes the
problem. (staff styles are used quite extensively in the score)
any ideas?
the file was probably created with F2003, i can't remember exactly,
but i'm pretty sure it would have been that version.
here is the printout (m22 is the new measure):
http://www.savefile.com/files/903200
jef,
For what it's worth, the PDF you sent me of this piece (an earlier
version, I think) had the same thing in measure 22, which is now your
measure 25 in the linked file above. If THAT PDF was created in 2003,
then the problem was already present.
I'm sorry I don't have anything more to offer, but I have frequently
come across file corruption in FinMac2007, more times than in all
previous versions combined. In FinMac2007, inserting measures is
frequently either a cause or a symptom. Perhaps your problem is
related to this.
Judging from recent problems I have had, keeping filenames below 31
characters (including .mus) can help prevent some corruption
problems, but I doubt this would help you.
There also seem to be corruption problems that crop up when opening
earlier files in more recent versions of Finale (I know, this
procedure is SUPPOSED to be transparent, but it isn't way too often.)
Andrew Stiller keeps old versions of Finale around to avoid
translation problems, and I do too now. Checking the file integrity
does not help me, ever. I don't know what it does, but it has never
done anything to any file of mine that helped me.
Christopher
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