Your second paragraph baffles me, too. I suspect file corruption, as I have never seen these symptoms. If you copy the contents to a fresh 2014.5 document, that should clean out the corruption. You will have to reformat the parts, add titles, etc. I open a LOT of older files, and see strange things all the time.
Your third paragraph seems to be the very common and frustrating “dancing articulations” bug. This is where the screen position of an articulation doesn’t accurately reflect its REAL positioning. Scrolling, zooming, page up or down, cause the articulation to appear to move up and down, thus the “dancing” name. It appears to be particularly egregious on staves of reduced size (that is, just about EVERY linked part!) and when the articulation is set to avoid staff lines. I find hitting cmd-D (on my Mac) to redraw the screen shows the REAL placement of the articulation and where it will print. Complain about this one, as it has been there a LONG time and it sucks. Christopher > On Mar 11, 2016, at 9:59 AM, Craig Sylvern <[email protected]> wrote: > > I apologize if these topics have been covered in the past (if they have, I > would really appreciate a link to the solutions). I have used Finale since > version 1 and have had an issue from time to time. However, since upgrading > to 2014.5 it’s been one frustrating issue after another. > > It started with the Launch Window crashing every time I selected something > (this is still happening and I have been going back and forth with MakeMusic > tech support for a month now). Then, I opened an old Finale file to update > it but every change I made resulted in the measures shrinking to about 1/32”. > Fortunately a solution was found for that. I’ve also been frustrated that > some of my preference choices haven’t been “sticking.” The latest is > printing parts in black and white. No matter what I do the parts print in > color — both to a printer and to a pdf. Grrrr. > > I’m also baffled by the fact that when I alter a measure width, move items > within a measure, alter the beat spacing, etc. that the default isn’t to lock > those alterations (maybe I’m missing something). I was working on a very > complicated score that had numerous tremolos. Some weren’t displaying > properly so I went in and adjusted them. Then I would continue my editing of > the rest of the score. However, when I came back to the part with the > tremolos all my adjustments had been reverted back to their original > positions. Why doesn’t Finale default to keeping any manual adjustments made? > > Sorry for the rant but it’s been a frustrating few weeks. My preference is > still Finale over Sibelius but I’m running out of hair to pull out. > > Craig > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
