When Finale sees a slash, it removes ALL the part name from the PDF, so when you expect "Title Flute/Picc.mus.pdf" you only get "Title.mus.pdf". Since the score has this name as well, it either gets overwritten, or it overwrites the part. If you have more than one part with a slash in the name, only the LAST part printed gets a PDF; all the others that don't have a part name get overwritten, with no error message.
However, there is an easy solution! There is a character typed on a Mac with opt-sh-1 ⁄ (there's one) that is actually a fraction slash, which gets written into part names. Only the slash under the question mark / (there's one) called a solidus I think, causes problems in PDFs. So use the fraction slash (opt-sh-1) in your part names and all will be fine. I don't know the Windows version of this character. Perhaps someone can help out? Christopher On Sun Sep 30, at SundaySep 30 2:06 PM, 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
