Hey JB, Thanks for the suggestion. I did that but no luck. It seems like something in Finale since the fonts work in other programs.
John On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 7:53 PM, JRB <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
