You have a bunch of issues here. I am suspecting some of them are exacerbated by using old templates in new versions of Finale, as they were for me. Bite the bullet and transfer your settings to a brand-new Finale document to use as a template.
> On May 18, 2018, at 8:07 AM, Lawrence David Eden <[email protected]> wrote: > > Finale 25 > Max OS 10.13.4 > > Dear Listers, > > I am still confused about how to get my parts to the printer. When I used > Finale 2011, I printed my parts directly from the “Edit Parts” menu and it > worked fine. In Finale 25, this does not work. > What is the correct procedure for getting my score divided into parts and > sent to the printer? Are we back to extracting parts or should “generate > parts” give me a printer ready document? Hitting command P should open the print dialogue, as it does for all Mac apps. The command is “Print” from the File menu, as it is for all Mac apps, and it has been that way for as long as I remember. I have never seen Print in the Edit Parts menu. The Print dialogue is a little different in v25, which might be confusing you. You should probably format your parts a bit before printing them, unless you have the absolute part format settings handed down by God himself and have managed to avoid all collisions. Normally in newer versions of Finale with linked parts (2007 and later) whenever you add an instrument to the score, the part is automatically generated according to the settings in Document>Page Format>Parts, which MAY not be the settings in the present parts if you have made some changes. If you open up a pre-2007 file, the parts need to be generated first manually (Document>Manage Parts>Generate), and the settings may not be what you need, so there will be a bit of fudging around to get them right. Once you have them the way you like, use that file as a template to avoid having to go through this again. If you ever open a pre-2007 file again, it may be easier to simply copy the contents to a new Finale document and add the titles manually. > > Another Question: I noticed that titles from previous arrangements are > finding their way into new pieces. For example: I arranged a "Trumpet > Voluntary." I closed this document then opened a different arrangement and > the title showed up on my new piece as “Trumpet Voluntary.” Is there a fix > that I am overlooking? This sounds like a very old bug from a previous version of the Matrix rearing its ugly head. I am suspecting some sort of corruption involving the temp files. Quit Finale immediately, restart the computer, and when you reopen Finale find out where it stores its temp files and go to that folder. It should be empty, so delete any files you find there and empty the trash. This bug has caused the content of entire files to switch out, so don’t play games with this. > > > Final Question: every staff in my parts has the abbreviated instrument name > in the margin. While I want the instrument name on each part, I only need it > to appear once. I am looking for a global fix. > Plugins>Scoring and Arranging>Global Staff Attributes plugin. Click the box “Staff Name in Parts” until it is blank, and hit OK. BTW, you shouldn’t be showing the staff name AT ALL in parts, unless it is a multistaff part like a choral score, or clarinet 1 and 2 on the same part. The instrument name for the part should be in a Text box, upper left-hand corner of all parts and score, with the Text menu>Insert>Part/Score Name added to it. The part name is the staff name, unless you have changed it in the Part Definition dialogue box. > > > Thanks in advance for any light you Finale mavins can shed. > > Larry Eden > _______________________________________________ > 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]
