[Finale] smart shape library workaround
Hi Guys and Gals, What do you think of this? In order to get a custom smart shape library from document to document, make a document which has all custom smart shapes attached to one measure, copy that measure into a new document (template, whatever) and then delete the unwanted measure. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but Bill Duncan suggested it to Greg Hamilton, and I think it should work. Chuck Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 phone (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 www.chuckisraels.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] smart shape library workaround
You can use either my Settings Scrapbook or Mass Copy plugins for this, too. Unfortunately, Finale by itself does not do a complete job of copying custom lines between docs. For example, custom arrowheads do not appear to be correctly copied. My plugins support more (if not completely all) custom line features. Chuck Israels wrote: Hi Guys and Gals, What do you think of this? In order to get a custom smart shape library from document to document, make a document which has all custom smart shapes attached to one measure, copy that measure into a new document (template, whatever) and then delete the unwanted measure. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but Bill Duncan suggested it to Greg Hamilton, and I think it should work. Chuck Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 phone (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 www.chuckisraels.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale -- Robert Patterson http://RobertGPatterson.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] smart shape library workaround
Thanks Robert, I guess I'll have to learn how more of your things work. It's not the expense that keeps me from getting the complete set of plug-ins, it's the sluggish behavior of this old brain learning new tools! Chuck On May 24, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: You can use either my Settings Scrapbook or Mass Copy plugins for this, too. Unfortunately, Finale by itself does not do a complete job of copying custom lines between docs. For example, custom arrowheads do not appear to be correctly copied. My plugins support more (if not completely all) custom line features. Chuck Israels wrote: Hi Guys and Gals, What do you think of this? In order to get a custom smart shape library from document to document, make a document which has all custom smart shapes attached to one measure, copy that measure into a new document (template, whatever) and then delete the unwanted measure. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but Bill Duncan suggested it to Greg Hamilton, and I think it should work. Chuck Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 phone (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 www.chuckisraels.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale -- Robert Patterson http://RobertGPatterson.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 phone (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 www.chuckisraels.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] smart shape library workaround
On 24 May 2005 at 17:42, Chuck Israels wrote: In order to get a custom smart shape library from document to document, make a document which has all custom smart shapes attached to one measure, copy that measure into a new document (template, whatever) and then delete the unwanted measure. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but Bill Duncan suggested it to Greg Hamilton, and I think it should work. Well, I just tried this, and I'm getting precisely the same error as I was getting with the SAVE LIBRARY -- one particular definition is losing it's flipped shape. But here's an added wrinkle: I used 5 staves to copy a whole lot of stuff, and the notes in one of the staves simply aren't copying. So, I tried putting all the articulations for that measure on the first note of the measure (which was successfully copying). This didn't work, either. Apparently something in my source file is corrupt and it won't let me save things out of that file. But DATA CHECK | CHECK INTEGRITY doesn't find anything wrong. It makes me crazy to have all these problems. Libraries won't save completely. Copy won't copy all the notes. I don't know if it's because the files are from old versions of Finale or not. But I don't see why I should think that's a problem -- it's clearly a badly broken subsection of Finale. -- David W. Fentonhttp://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associateshttp://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
