Download FontExplorer (free version) and use it to clear the font cache. I suspect that will fix your problem.
JB Sent from my iPhone using my thumbs w/out a spellchecker On Oct 30, 2010, at 6:00 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
