Re: [Finale] Joining the Mac world
One problem solved! When I purchased the Vienna font, there was a directory OSX with four versions of the font, and a WIN directory with two versions. After days of failing to get ANY of the OSX Vienna fonts to work on my MacBook, including emptying my caches, and trying everything possible, on a whim I installed the WIN TTF version on my MacBook. Hallelujah!! It worked! Now if I can only get Finale to locate my default file. that's today's project. - Bob ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Joining the Mac world
Hi All, I've been using Finale on the PC since it first came out, but I'm now joining the Mac world. I'm trying to get everything working on my new MacBook Air, so that when my iMac is delivered next week the transition will be as seamless as possible. Two trouble spots have come up using Fin 2012c, and MM tech support unfortunately couldn't help me. On my MacBook Air, the Vienna font (musegraph.com)doesn't seem to have the characters mapped correctly. I tried installing versions in dfont, ttf, and otf formats (not at the same time , of course,) but it makes no difference. The FAN file is installed as well. For example, the quarter rest comes out as the Fortissississimo symbol, and the eighth rest as an accent mark. As you'd expect, files previously created on the PC in Vienna come out unreadable. But if I change the default file to Maestro, all is well. I did add Vienna to my symbol font list, but that didn't seem to help either. The other problem is that Finale Mac refuses to open the file I set as my default. On the PC, it gives me the option to browse to the file, and then has no trouble finding it when I hit Ctrl-N. I've tried everything to get that to work on the Mac. I should mention that all my Finale files are stored on Dropbox, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for anything else. Thanks for any help. It's making me crazy! - Bob Marks ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Joining the Mac world
add the font to the file MacSymbolFonts.txt (F2012/Configuration Files) F prefs (command-comma), in New write Maestro Font Default.mus (or the name of your default file if it is different) in the default doc field, make sure the path is also specified in the folders tab (F2012/Music Files/Default Files). welcome to our world. rock on ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Joining the Mac world
Anybody else using redundant computers (aside from the usual extra drive backup and the cloud)? nope, just an operating system that the folks at finale have told me is redundant if i want to keep using their products... ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Joining the Mac world
nope, just an operating system that the folks at finale have told me is redundant if i want to keep using their products... Now I'm curious. Are you saying it's an old system that won't support new Finale versions, or that you can't install it on more than one computer? Linda Worsley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Joining the Mac world
Hi Jef and Linda, Jef, thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, nothing seems to work. File locations under Preferences Folders seem to be using colons (Macintosh HD:users:bobmarks:dropbox: finale. ) and I tried using slashes, colons, and a combination of both (colons for the file locations, then slashes after dropbox). Nothing works. I'll keep trying though. And I did add Vienna to the MacSymbolFonts.txt - to no avail. Linda, with Dropbox pretty-much changing my work habits, I plan on using the iMac at my office, and the MacBook Air at home and on the road. They will both be running Finale 2012, and I'll have access to all my files via Dropbox. The iMac isn't so much a desktop in the old fashined sense, but a beautiful thin large monitor that somehow has a full computer built right inside. They start at about $1,300. As long as I'm lucky enough to have the Air for portability, and access to my files from anywhere, I should be covered. When changing over, I decided I'd get my MacBook to do everything I need, and then migrate those settings to the iMac when it arrives. I hope I'm right. Giving up Outlook wasn't without reservations, and I still miss Outlook's data entry, and features such as categories. But I'm trading that in for the synchronization of iCloud, and so far, it seems to be working. (I know there's Outlook for the Mac, but it doesn't synchronize using iCloud.) Thanks for the good wishes! - Bob ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Joining the Mac world
i am on 10.6, min for 2014 is 10.7 Now I'm curious. Are you saying it's an old system that won't support new Finale versions, or that you can't install it on more than one computer? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Joining the Mac world
I'm confused, are you trying to get your preferences synced via Dropbox? I use Finale on two difference Macs, and I just copied my Default Maestro file to both and everything is great. NOT Sent from a Google Glass -- On Dec 16, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Robert Marks b...@bobmarks.com wrote: Hi Jef and Linda, Jef, thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, nothing seems to work. File locations under Preferences Folders seem to be using colons (Macintosh HD:users:bobmarks:dropbox: finale. ) and I tried using slashes, colons, and a combination of both (colons for the file locations, then slashes after dropbox). Nothing works. I'll keep trying though. And I did add Vienna to the MacSymbolFonts.txt - to no avail. Linda, with Dropbox pretty-much changing my work habits, I plan on using the iMac at my office, and the MacBook Air at home and on the road. They will both be running Finale 2012, and I'll have access to all my files via Dropbox. The iMac isn't so much a desktop in the old fashined sense, but a beautiful thin large monitor that somehow has a full computer built right inside. They start at about $1,300. As long as I'm lucky enough to have the Air for portability, and access to my files from anywhere, I should be covered. When changing over, I decided I'd get my MacBook to do everything I need, and then migrate those settings to the iMac when it arrives. I hope I'm right. Giving up Outlook wasn't without reservations, and I still miss Outlook's data entry, and features such as categories. But I'm trading that in for the synchronization of iCloud, and so far, it seems to be working. (I know there's Outlook for the Mac, but it doesn't synchronize using iCloud.) Thanks for the good wishes! - Bob ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Joining the Mac world
I'm confused, are you trying to get your preferences synced via Dropbox? Nope, it's just that Finale soesn't seem to be able to find my default file. I'll have to do more experimenting tomorrow and figure it out. And I'll also have to figure out why the Vienna font doesn't work! - Bob ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Joining the Mac world
Well, the default file needs to be in ~/library/application support/makemusic/finale 2012/ Sent from my iSomething -- On Dec 16, 2013, at 1:48 PM, Robert Marks b...@bobmarks.com wrote: I'm confused, are you trying to get your preferences synced via Dropbox? Nope, it's just that Finale soesn't seem to be able to find my default file. I'll have to do more experimenting tomorrow and figure it out. And I'll also have to figure out why the Vienna font doesn't work! - Bob ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Joining the Mac world
the default file can be *anywhere* you want it to be, as long as the folder path (do not write the path, use the dialogues to select it) for the default file is correctly set up to look for it there. Well, the default file needs to be in ~/library/application support/makemusic/finale 2012/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
