Hi John, Does Pagemaker still exist? I always use this programme for lots of things but the version I had would not work on later versions of windows and I was unable to find an upgrade.
Cheers, Lawrence On 10 December 2016 at 03:40, John Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > I do this sort of thing a lot, and have always used PageMaker or InDesign > for the final document, exporting from the individual Finale files via eps > (in the old days) or pdf (much better). If you don’t own this sort of page > layout program, do follow Christopher’s advice and find a pdf editor to do > the job. I’ve never needed one, so I can’t recommend any. > > JR > > > > > On Dec 9, 2016, at 9:30 PM, Christopher Smith < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > John, > > > > What I would certainly do in your case is print them to PDF without page > numbers, then compile the individual pages into one PDF with a PDF editor > that can add page numbers (there are many free or cheap ones). > > > > If you were to use the Score Merger you would have terrible problems > with titles, etc. from the merge process, not to mention baselines and the > like would be messed up, unless they were scrupulously preserved from one > document to another, which I am reasonably certain is not the case. > > > > Where the Score Merger is useful is when you have to combine two, three > or four movements of a longer work, where you WANT everything to be > consistently preserved from one movement to another, and you can mess with > the movement titles individually. You DON’T want to redo those 200 times. > > > > Christopher > > > > > >> On Dec 9, 2016, at 8:29 PM, John Witmer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Robert, > >> I need your advice. I'm in the process of completing a 200 song > compendium using Finale 2014.5 When it is finished, (I promised it would > be ready "early" in 2017), I'll need to merge the individual charts for a > single document. This is for the sole use of a retirement community, but > they'll need about 100 copies. I believe I have volunteers who will fund > the printing, but I need to get good copy. > >> > >> Now, is Finale 25 good enough to undertake this task, or should I > finish it with Finale 2014.5? Either way, I'm afraid it will be a real > chore. If all else fails, I'll have to print 200 separate charts and > collate them. This will be hard because I need to print most pages > "back-to-back" to keep the total size less than an unabridged dictionary. > >> > >> Your advice would be gratefully appreciated. > >> Chordially, > >> John Witmer > >> Clemson Downs Retirement Community. > >> > >> On 12/9/2016 5:35:12 PM, Robert Patterson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I've been messing with the Score Merger function in Finale 25. It does a > >> halfway decent job, but > >> > >> 1. It fails to copy lyric baseline adjustments (and I would guess > probably > >> expression baseline adjustments as well). > >> 2. It idiotically goes nuts if a bar has too many beats (like a hard > whole > >> rest in a 2/4 bar, which is frequently required for L1/L2 parts). > >> 3. It makes a mess of lyric text. > >> 4. It doesn't know how to create percussion staves that match the source > >> file, so percussion is a mess. > >> > >> Does anyone know a better way? > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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] > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] > -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
