On 9/30/2012 11:42 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: > @Carl: I don't understand your solution, but it sounds intriguing. Which > field in the File Info do you use? Is it different per part?
Yweah, 2012 added a LOT of unnecessary complexity, so you have to go into the score manager on each part and change it. It was (like many things) better in earlier releases. cd > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 1:23 PM, dershem <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 9/30/2012 11:06 AM, SN jef chippewa wrote: >>> >>> not wanting to induce panic, but i hope this doesn't have anything to >>> do with the file overwrite problem some have had. >>> >>> i just did a few tests (but haven't got a solution for you, sorry!) >>> on a document i just set up for the tests. >>> >>> if the document has only one part and the part name has a slash, it >>> prints correctly. probably because in this case it doesn't append >>> the instrument name to the PDF as it does with multi-part documents >>> (i didn't know this!)... >>> >>> so i have a mellophone PT with its instrument name defined in manage >>> PTs as "instrument/part" and added a horn in F and generated PTs. >>> when i print (select both PTs to print) i get only one PDF (although >>> the print dialogue appears twice, as you have experienced) whose >>> filename is "testscore.mus - Horn in F.pdf" but in fact the >>> instrument name showing is "instrument/part"... very strange. >> >> the "/" character is used by the OS (all OS's), and so can't be used in >> a file name. But you don't HAVE to. >> >> When I have parts that call for doubles (pit orchestra parts and big >> band parts mostly), I leave the default part names intact, and then go >> into "File Info" and put the detailed names with the ? and the () part >> name there. They will show up on the parts but will not confuse the >> computer. >> >> This is handy when the part name is "Woodwind 1 (Alto >> Sax/Flute/Piccolo)" though commas would work as well there. >> >> cd >> >> -- >> http://projectselene.com >> >> >> >> >> ======= >> Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. >> (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.18500) >> http://www.pctools.com/ >> ======= >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature > database 7532 (20120930) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > > > > ======= > Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. > (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.18500) > http://www.pctools.com/ > ======= > -- http://projectselene.com ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.18500) http://www.pctools.com/ ======= _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
