On 10 Dec 2010 at 13:19, John Howell wrote: > 1. Using proprietary file formats rather than a universal one would > be, I suspect, a huge non-starter. Strange to say, not everyone uses > Finale, and not everyone who does is fully conversant with it. I > believe that's why the Portable Document Format was developed in the > first place.
Actually, no, that's not why PDF was developed. It was created entirely so that print documents could be displayed reliably on any computer and it would always look the same. That purpose has been somewhat superseded by all-electronic transmission of information (i.e., it's no longer driven by design for print), but the goal of precisely exact display on all devices is still in place. Your comment seems to me to confuse the question of what is used to create the content and what is used to present the content. Finale might very well still be what is used to edit the music, while PDF output would be used to display on the music stand devices. That would be more complicated than an integrated system where everything was handled from one program (e.g., Finale or Sibelius), and the portability might not be worth the effort, since for any particular organization, it would be a closed system. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
