Yes we have encountered something that might be related to this problem. Graphics that are created with Finale and saved as EPS (with or without the Maestro font included in the file) appear wrongly when opened in Adobe Illustrator and sometimes also in In Design. Changing to Petrucci or Engraver seems to solve the problem. We suspect that the problem might be related to non American versions of Windows. No one on this list (mostly Americans) was able to reproduce the problem. Removing all other fonts from the system didn't work. We think that there is something confusing character mapping of the font set, but we havn't been able to fix it. As far as we can tell, the character mapping in Maestro is not the same as in other fonts. I see you are using Mac OS, so obviously not a Windows problem in your case, but perhpas Adobe has some strange way of mapping characters that other software doesn't.
This brings me to another question. Does anyone know of an alternative to Illustrator for opening and editing EPS-files generated by Finale? > -----Opprinnelig melding----- > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne > av Ryan Beard > Sendt: 20. august 2008 08:22 > Til: [email protected] > Emne: [Finale] font problems when creating PDFs > > Hi all, > When I create PDFs of a score, some characters are showing up > differently when I open the PDF. > I'm on FinMac 2008b, Mac OS 10.5.4 > I'm using Maestro as my default music font. Specifically, up bows are > converting to caesuras (railroad tracks), down bows are converting to > single-slash "tremolos," and whole rests are becoming a slanted > character that I haven't identified yet. These are only the problems I > easily found--I haven't looked for any more.... > I initially thought it was a problem with viewing the PDF in Preview, > but Adobe Acrobat gave me the same problems. > I changed the font of the up bow and down bow to Maestro Wide, and that > solved the problem when viewing in Acrobat, but not in Preview. Preview > and Adobe didn't like it any better when I changed to EngraverFontSet, > either. > I don't know how to change the character of the whole rest, but I could > try that if anyone can give me directions on how to do that. I'm > hesitant to change the default music font because of all the spacing > I've adjusted around the lyrics. > I'll be calling Finale Tech support in the morning once they open for > business. > Has anyone run across this type of issue before? Any ideas of how to > fix it? Is it a font problem, a character problem (other articulations > in the default font show up correctly), is it a Finale problem, a > system problem? This affects numerous files, so hopefully an efficient > solution is available. > Thanks for your wisdom! > Ryan > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
