Hi everyone, I recently purchased Finale Productivity 5.0 from NPC Imaging, and I have a few questions for the group. I use FinMac2011, OSX 10.5.8 on a MacBook Pro.
I wanted to get the Bill Duncan fonts and chord library because they look so nice, but I’m having some problems getting them to work. My problem is with chord symbols. I loaded the Bill Duncan chord library and all the chords now show up fine in the Chord Definition dialog box, and they look great onscreen. But the chord suffix and alterations do not print, preview or show up in PDF files (the chord symbol itself, does print, preview and pdf). The chord fonts in Document Options are set correctly for the Bill Duncan fonts. Nick Carter offers a money-back guarantee, but I'm not ready to give up yet. Fonts installed in: Macintosh HD/Library/Fonts/ Fonts are named as I got them from npc: FPChordSuffix.otf, FPChordSymbol.otf and FPChordSymbolSubtext.otf .fan files are here: /user/Library/Application Support/Make Music/Finale 2011/Font Annotation/ Here's a clue. If I create a chord symbol in MSWord (doesn't everyone?), and format with the Bill Duncan fonts, they view, print, preview and pdf just fine. Another clue. In order to load the chord symbol library, I opened a file called ChordSym-Suf.mus (as directed) containing the BD chord library, and saved the chords library. I loaded it into my Finale document, and all chords show up fine in the Chord Definition dialog. However, in the ChordSym-Suf.mus file the default music font BD Notes no longer exists in FP5.0. Changing it to Maestro breaks the chord symbols. The latest version of Finale Productivity 5.0 has OpenType fonts now, but they're named differently than the older versions (both PS and TT). Also included are many templates created in Fin2003 and Fin2004, which don't work in Fin2011. It seems that the Bill Duncan fonts, or most of them, have been updated to OpenType, but nothing else in FP5.0 has been updated since Fin2003/2004. Hoping somebody else has installed this in later versions of Finale and can help this still-novice user out! BTW, thanks to everyone to weighed in on the large format printer thread. John _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
