HI Aaron and everyone, This is a cross platform issue. (I am on a Mac.)
I write from the perspective of minimal insight into computer functioning, but I have experienced chaotic behavior in how Finale 2012 handles non-native fonts. I reiterate that this comes from what may be a naive perspective, but I think it is a result of the rebuilding of the way Finale handles fonts in order to accommodate (now I've forgotten what it is called - the thing that allows international languages - early onset Jazzheimers). Anyway, Fonts are misplaced and on some occasions, symbols that should be recognized in the selected font - or the one in which they were created, show up in another font. For instance, a symbol entered into an older (now converted) document in Bill Duncan's Articulation font, shows up as either a missing font (even after substituting the older Articulations font with FPArticulations - the Open Type version) or turns out to be in another Duncan font (typically BraketsBold). To make this clearer, perhaps more informative to those who might understand more of the inner workings: clicking through to the editing window on an articulation which is incorrectly displayed shows that the symbol is defined as another font rather than as an Articulation font. I have been dealing with this for weeks - repairing files by the hundreds, so I have become familiar with the behavior. My sense is that there is a significant change in the way Finale handles fonts, and it is creating chaos with anything but Finale's native fonts. It would be driving me nuts, if I weren't already crazy enough to submit to the need to repair every old file I convert to 2012. Chuck On Nov 13, 2011, at 5:23 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: > Hi all, > > I believe I've confirmed that this is a bug in Finale, not a problem > with Windows or my font. > > First, I'm seeing the same behavior with Windows-supplied fonts like > Arial Narrow and Franklin Gothic Heavy. They both show up as substyles > under their main font name, but when I select them for a text block in > Finale, Finale displays the regular text style. > > Second, I built a quick C# test application which uses the standard > Windows font dialog. The fonts do still show up there as substyles, but > when I select them the change gets correctly passed back to a label on > the form. This indicates to me that Finale is mishandling what the > Character Settings dialog hands back to it. > > Aaron. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale Chuck Israels 1310 NW Naito Parkway #807 Portland, OR 97209-316 land line: (971) 255-1167 cell phone: (360) 201-3434 <www.chuckisraels.com> <www.chuckisraelsjazz.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
