I've had essentially zero problems upgrading files from Fin08, but I hardly ever upgrade files either. I still have Fin08 running in a virtual machine if I need to modify them. (On Mac, Fin08 is no longer functional with recent OS versions.)
Note-attached expressions become beat-attached, as do measure-attached expressions. If you have any conversion issues from Fin08, this will be where they are. Especially if your expressions are attached to grace notes. Since Fin08 some useful tools are available directly in Finale for manipulating staff layout. I'd need to know your specific use case to comment on how you might go about it. There is a beta version of staff list manager for Fin14.5 that works pretty well. But it often mangles your staff groups. This is because TGTools was never updated to recognize the major change in how staff groups work that came in Fin11. (Staff groups are now attached to measure ranges, not systems.) Nevertheless I have been known to open my file in Fin14.5, make changes with staff list manager, then reopen it in Fin25. One of the advantages of .musx is that it can be opened and saved in earlier Finale versions. (back to Fin14) On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 7:24 AM, dc <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 26/11/2016 14:12, Robert Patterson écrit : > > RP plugins are fully functional in Fin25, including many new features > > unavailable in Fin08. TGTools is available in a beta release that > includes > > almost everything I use. The one feature I use still not available is the > > staff list manager and optimization copying. (I got so impatient for > usable > > optimization copying that I have added it as a feature for the next > release > > of rp's.) > > > > I'm not sure where JW stands at this point. Two of his most commonly used > > plugins now come standard with finale, including fin25: staff spacing and > > system divider. Both Jari and Tobias have publicly committed to full 64 > bit > > versions of their plugins. > > > > There are many useful improvements in finale since fin08. I would not go > > back. But you will end up missing note-attached expressions. To this day > I > > resent that confiscation of features by Makemusic more than any other > > confiscation they've foisted on us. > > Thanks, Robert, for the comments. What happens to old file that do have > note-attached expressions? > > Are there any major issues when converting old (2008) files? > > I use TGT's staff list manager every day to add or remove space between > staves. How does one manage, so to speak, without it? > > Thanks. > > Dennis > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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]
