dhbailey wrote:
dhbailey wrote:
Jari Williamsson wrote:
dhbailey wrote:
1) it doesn't work in FireFox, it only works in Internet Explorer.
I installed the viewer after exiting FireFox, started FireFox again
and still get the error message "Click Here To Install PlugIn" where
the music should appear. And no message whatsoever on the web-site
stating that Internet Explorer is necessary for proper viewing of
the site. There is no option at all in the installation process for
FinaleViewer to use any browser at all, it seems only to look for
and install for IE.
FWIW, I got exactly the same problem as you described above when
trying to install Scorch in the latest version of Firefox. And when
installing it on IE6, the installer when completely nuts and started
endless instances of itself.
IMO, neither a Finale nor Sibelius viewer is a good alternative for
the end user. A MusicXML viewer (with font inclusion) is one thing
that would make sense, another would be a SVG solution with playback.
The Sibelius music I looked at yesterday looked so bad that virtually
nothing would be lost in a conversion to a generic format.
Wow, interesting, because Scorch installed just fine for me in both
Firefox and IE6.
I agree that neither is an ideal solution for an end user, and any
such electronic purchase of music which doesn't allow the end users to
end up with a printable file on their computer is doomed to failure.
There's just too much which can go wrong, witness the problems we're
all having with these supposedly foolproof viewers. :-)
I'm not about to spend $95 for a band work where I won't end up with a
file which can be reprinted when needed. Who among the vast numbers
of the supposed market these merchants are aiming at have printers set
up with heavy-duty, acid-free, won't die/rip/get-soaked-and-rot papers
and printers which can handle such paper?
$95 for a single-use piece of music? No thank you.
The most interesting thing about this supposed coup over Sibelius is
that now NONE of my Finale installations work properly!!!!!!
I should have expected as much and left well-enough alone and not even
tried to investigate!
So much for this being a "good thing" that MakeMusic has convinced Hal
Leonard to use this product which doesn't work.
Well, now that I have figured things out I've calmed down.
I tried to reinstall the fonts for Finale (they weren't showing up at
all after I installed the FinaleViewer) and still nothing.
Then I was about to do a full reinstall of Finale when a little birdie
suggested that I should reboot the computer.
I rebooted and all my versions of Finale are now working again.
There was nothing, absolutely nothing during the installation of
FinaleViewer which said that for it to work properly one needed to
reboot one's computer.
Truly a badly designed installation procedure -- it didn't check to see
if Finale was already installed and didn't provide any instructions at
all, simply installed with no options and no instructions and that was that.
--
David H. Bailey
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