Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-12 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi Hiro, I'll do this the next time it starts to choke up, and I'll send you the report. I don't have that Shark thing you mentioned in the next email, and that is getting out of my experience, but if you will "walk me through" some of this stuff when you have a free moment, I'll try to

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-12 Thread A-NO-NE Music
I wrote: >There is another way. Ooops. My finger slipped and it went out before finishing the sentence. Sorry! The other and more practical way is to run Shark against GPO if you have DevTool installed. I will see what I find when I get my hands on my copy of GPO :-) Tho I am so behind my w

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-12 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Chuck Israels / 2005/06/12 / 09:32 PM wrote: >Worked w/Finale & GPO all day - no Formac TV, and a few minutes ago >(about 6:30 PM), GPO choked up again. The Activity Monitor was >showing that it was back to using 70% + of the CPU. Chuck, Next time, in Activity Monitor, highlight GPO which is

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-12 Thread Chuck Israels
End of day report: Worked w/Finale & GPO all day - no Formac TV, and a few minutes ago (about 6:30 PM), GPO choked up again. The Activity Monitor was showing that it was back to using 70% + of the CPU. Quit & restart GPO - redo MIDI in Finale (only takes a couple of minutes) and again, a

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread ThomaStudios
Thanks Karen. I'll check that out as well. *** J.D. Thomas ThomaStudios West Linn OR www.thomastudios.com *** On Jun 12, 2005, at 5:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi J.D., There is another nice word processor program called Mariner Write th

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread laloba2
Hi J.D., There is another nice word processor program called Mariner Write that a lot of people seem to like. It works in Tiger too and you can download it and try it first. It will read Word documents and save to RTF-Word files. It runs about $50.00-60.00 depending on whether you buy a bo

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread Ken Durling
PS If you do a lot of file sharing, I suppose the one area not being up-to-date that could be an issue is the converters. But if it's mostly in-house I wouldn't worry. You can always use text files. Ken At 04:50 PM 6/12/2005, you wrote: WP updates have not been all that significant to the

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread Ken Durling
WP updates have not been all that significant to the word processor segment. Most of it has been bells and whistle, spreadsheets, and web features that personally I never use. I used WP 5.1 for years, and then got WpWin 8 and have been using that for a long time. There were some minor layout

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Have you done the usual things, such as Repair Disk Permissions, and seen if there are any updates to Word that you should install? John Howell wrote: Our computers came with MS Office preloaded, so most of us use MS Word. (The university upgrades us about every 4 years.) The version I now

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread John Howell
At 1:15 PM -0700 6/12/05, ThomaStudios wrote: Once again I'd like to tap the collective wisdom here on the board. What is everyone's recommended choice for word processing under OS X. I would like to rid myself of Microsh*t Word 2004, which steadfastly refuses to create a printer on my system

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I wasn't the one looking, but it does run under OS 9 Classic, but it's really not worth the effort. One could get Pages, or even a copy of Office for OS X, or even Appleworks I don't think Wordperfect for the Mac has been updated in 5 or more years. The last release was 3.5 I believe, and it h

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Well, that too. Darcy James Argue wrote: Also because it's a dead end -- no longer supported or updated. - Darcy ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread David W. Fenton
On 12 Jun 2005 at 16:09, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > >If it runs on OS X, why would that be a problem? > > > >I use Word97, myself, even though I could be running Word2K or > >Word2K2, of which I have legal copies. Word97 is sufficient for my > >needs. > > > >If the 3-yea

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread Darcy James Argue
Also because it's a dead end -- no longer supported or updated. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 12 Jun 2005, at 7:09 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Cause it doesn't run under OS X, it runs under OS 9. David W. Fenton wrote: If it runs on OS X, why would that be a problem? I use

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Cause it doesn't run under OS X, it runs under OS 9. David W. Fenton wrote: If it runs on OS X, why would that be a problem? I use Word97, myself, even though I could be running Word2K or Word2K2, of which I have legal copies. Word97 is sufficient for my needs. If the 3-year-old WordPerfec

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread David W. Fenton
On 12 Jun 2005 at 15:39, ThomaStudios wrote: > I did some superficial research on this, and about I could find out > was that they haven't updated anything for the Mac in about 3 years or > so. If it runs on OS X, why would that be a problem? I use Word97, myself, even though I could be running

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread Darcy James Argue
As you probably gathered, WordPerfect for Mac was discontinued ages ago. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 12 Jun 2005, at 6:39 PM, ThomaStudios wrote: I did some superficial research on this, and about I could find out was that they haven't updated anything for the Mac in about

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread ThomaStudios
I did some superficial research on this, and about I could find out was that they haven't updated anything for the Mac in about 3 years or so. *** J.D. Thomas ThomaStudios West Linn OR www.thomastudios.com *** On Jun 12, 2005, at 2:33 PM, dhbai

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread dhbailey
ThomaStudios wrote: Once again I'd like to tap the collective wisdom here on the board. What is everyone's recommended choice for word processing under OS X. I would like to rid myself of Microsh*t Word 2004, which steadfastly refuses to create a printer on my system. All the other Office

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread ThomaStudios
Thanks Darcy (and the others who chimed in). I actually didn't know about Pages, but will check it out. You also brought up InDesign, which I own vCS2. I didn't even give that a thought. Ah, there's hope for me yet! Thanks again to all who responded. J.D. Thomas ThomaStudios

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jun 12, 2005, at 4:15 PM, ThomaStudios wrote: Once again I'd like to tap the collective wisdom here on the board. What is everyone's recommended choice for word processing under OS X. I would like to rid myself of Microsh*t Word 2004, which steadfastly refuses to create a printer on my s

Re: [Finale] special parts extraction?

2005-06-12 Thread Cecil Rigby
Hi Bernard et al- Bernard wrote: > So Special Part Extract serves as a preview of the look my parts will > have once I do a real extract. what a cool idea, Bernard! This may be just the ticket. Thanks to everyone for their reminders about doing whatever I do on duplicate a file. That's something

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread Darcy James Argue
Pages is great, and inexpensive, but it definitely takes some getting used to. It helps if you're familiar with InDesign, Quark, etc, since Pages is actually more of a baby desktop publishing app than a traditional word processor. It's especially good for mixing text and images. - Darcy -

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Pages, part of iWork. Great word processing program. ThomaStudios wrote: Once again I'd like to tap the collective wisdom here on the board. What is everyone's recommended choice for word processing under OS X. I would like to rid myself of Microsh*t Word 2004, which steadfastly refuses to

[Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

2005-06-12 Thread ThomaStudios
Once again I'd like to tap the collective wisdom here on the board. What is everyone's recommended choice for word processing under OS X. I would like to rid myself of Microsh*t Word 2004, which steadfastly refuses to create a printer on my system. All the other Office components will print,

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-12 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi Karen, Darcy, Hiro et al, It seems you guys are likely to be right! GPO has been running overnight - without the Formac TV, and it and my Mac have remained stable, with the GPO usage remaining at about 16% in the activity monitor. So all those background crashes of the Formac software

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-12 Thread Randolph Peters
My problem with GPO is the Kontact engine. It doesn't load many instruments before the sound cracks up on a Mac. I find Reason to be much more efficient. Mind you, Reason doesn't have those nice Keyboard Switches that GPO has where you can change samples (e.g., arco to pizz to trem. etc.) withi

Re: [Finale] special parts extraction?

2005-06-12 Thread Bernard Savoie
I basically use special part extract to prepare a general format before I go to extract the final versions of the parts. Of course I don't do this with my original score file but with a duplicate of it. In the Special Part Extract I can see and adjust any items which may need to be changed, suc

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-12 Thread laloba2
and there is going to be a Tiger update soon, according to an email I received from Gary a few days ago. Hi Chuck, Thank you for your kind words...and thank you for the information that the Tiger update is on its way soon. That is good to know and will hopefully clear up some of th