I have to substitute articulations (and chord suffixes, and expressions) pretty often, and this is how I do it. The key here is knowing what the articulation WAS supposed to be. If the font is missing, you might not be able to know this. I would use Document menu>Data Check>Font Utilities to search for the missing font and replace with Maestro, so I could at least see what the articulation was.
Make sure the articulations I WANT are loaded, using a library if necessary. Click anywhere in the score to open up the Selection dialogue box. The new articulations I loaded are at the end of the window, so I start at the top. Click the Delete button for each articulation. If it is not used, it goes away immediately. If it is used, a notice crops up saying "This is in use (etc.)" so I click replace with... and select the new articulation from the library that I have loaded. Hit Return. Keep going until I have deleted all the old articulations. Since this is a very old file dating from before articulations had proper positioning, you probably want to revert to default positioning on all articulations. For this I would go to the Selection Tool, select All, then Utilities Menu>Change>Articulations... hit return right away to restore everything to default positioning. You may still have to adjust some things, but this is a good start. I have a slightly different accent > designed to position a little higher to miss the start point of slurs. I assign it to a metatool (usually Q, which is just above A for accent) and every time I see an accent colliding, I click it and double-tap Q, which changes it into my special accent. Sorry this isn't easier, but it beats reassigning each one manually. Christopher On Mon Dec 23, at MondayDec 23 9:56 AM, Neal Gittleman wrote: > Greetings… > > I’ve recently had to open up on old file (created on Finale 2.6.1, later > updated/re-saved in Mac 2008). None of the articulations are visible. The > handle of each articulation is there. When I clicked on the first handle (an > accent) to see what was up I got the Articulation Designer with empty boxes > where the accent character would normally display. Clicking on “Main” takes > me to the Symbol Selection box, which displays not the usual characters I’d > expect to see, but thousands of choices (none of them what I’m looking for). > Next to “Font” it says “Missing Font (26)” so I assume it’s that something is > missing. > > Any ideas how I can successfully update this file (I’m currently using 2014) > without re-creating each of the articulations (and there are thousands in the > 60-page full orchestra score) one by one? > > Thanks! > > Neal Gittleman > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
