I definitely concur with Christother here. (Well, I almost always do.) Redraw to see where an articulation really is, especially on reduced staves. For me, any articulation placed on a 75% staff will jump 3-4 EVPU left on a redraw. And that's where it really is.
There are some articulation placement settings that seem not to allow the articulation to be placed too far from the staff, and that results in a vertical jump on redraw. I've never really explored this - but setting placement to manual usually fixes it well enough for me. JR On 3/11/16 10:14 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: > 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] > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
