On 11/13/2011 6:49 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know if Finale for Windows 2012 has fixed the bug where it slows > down expression creation/editing if there are a large number of fonts in the > system? > > This bug showed up in 2010. It seems Finale scans the entire font library > every time a character is typed. With my font collection, this amounts to 2-3 > three seconds wait for EACH character typed. > > They knew about this but didn't fix it in 2011, so although I bought it, I > have only used it a few times because I can't bring in expressions without > waiting several minutes for each adjustment. With hundreds of expressions, > it's impossible. > > If the font bug isn't fixed, I'm skipping 2012. > .
I guess it would depend on what you mean by "a large number of fonts" -- I have 1078 fonts installed on my Win7 Home Premium 64-bit notebook computer and just opened Finale2012 to create an expression and there was no delay, even after I switched fonts in the middle of the expression. I also just ran Fin2011 and tried the same experiment and I notice a significant slowing down in the creation of a new expression, so I would say that there is significant improvement with this problem. I couldn't say for certain the bug is totally gone, but it sure seems like it -- the text entry in Fin2012 expression tool is just as fast as text entry in either WordPerfect or Word or my email program. -- David H. Bailey [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
