I have found the view percentage is most accurate when it is set to
represent the true full scale of the music font. That is, when the
system is reduced to 50%, the most accurate views are 200%, or 400%.
If the reduction is 85%, the view should be 118% or 235%. (Divide 100
by the reduction size to find the correct view size. You have to
round to the nearest whole number in Finale).
I think this has to do with the design of the screen fonts which are
directly related to their resolution on the screen. (You're trying to
make a 24pt character, for example, look as close to real 24pt size
on screen). This is an attempt to bypass the computers efforts to
portray the shape of the characters by fudging how they look at sizes
other than that true resolution of the font. Things have improved
since the early days of WYSIWYG, but you can still be more confident
of the printed output with accurate view resolutions.
If the page has no reduction, view sizes in multiples of 100% will be
most accurate, but only for text blocks, etc. attached to the page
itself.
Mark Ralston
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