This is brilliant, Ryan. I haven’t gotten it to work yet, but I’ll keep futzing around. If I come up with a clear question, I’ll ask here because this could be really useful. Just wanted to thank you for responding with such an explicit email.
Dick H OlyWa On Sep 30, 2014, at 5:18 PM, Ryan Beard <ry.squa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Make sure Finale is already open on your system. Then, open System > Preferences > Printers & Scanners. Select your printer. Click Open Print > Queue. > > Drag the .mus files you want to create PDFs into the queue window. > > The printer dialogue will pop up. Choose make PDF. Define where you want the > PDFs to be saved. Click ok. It should open up all the .mus files and print > them as PDFs automatically. > > I find that this only works with Finale 2012, not 2014. I'm on OS X 10.9.4. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 30, 2014, at 1:55 PM, Simon Troup <simon.tr...@digitalmusicart.com> >> wrote: >> >> I'd just drop them on LisaNet PDFWriter about 100 at a time. Seems to be >> much faster than using FinaleScript. >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfwriterformac/ >> >> I'm sure there are numerous ways of doing it. >> >> Archives tend to become unusable with OS changes etc, might be worth >> creating a musicXML file to save alongside everything else, but that's not >> my speciality - just trying to think how you might best future proof >> everything. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Simon Troup | BA Hons (Mus) >> http://www.digitalmusicart.com >> >> Partners: Simon Troup & Jennie Troup >> VAT Registration: 982 4230 17 >> >> *"If you can twang it, we can engrave it. Seriously, we can. No... really!"* >> >> *This email is a private communication between the sender and the intended >> recipient. If you received this email in error be advised that all content, >> information and files contained in the message remain copyright of the >> author, artist or original copyright holder and may not be used without >> permission.* >> >>> On 30 September 2014 21:34, Dick Hauser <rdhau...@comcast.net> wrote: >>> >>> I would like to archive about 82 meg worth of Finale files (2012 and >>> earlier). The kindest thing to do would be to create a PDF in addition to >>> saving the .mus file, but there are about 1,200 files. I can’t see how >>> the process of creating a PDF could be automated, but perhaps some of you >>> have ideas? I suppose I could at least include a copy of Mac and Win >>> PrintMusic, but then we’re talking a bit of cost ($120 or so). >>> >>> Mac FIN 2014/2012 >>> 10.9.5 >>> >>> >>> Dick H >>> OlyWa >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> Finale@shsu.edu >>> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >>> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >>> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
