[Finale] End of OSX pre-10.7 Finale plug-in development

2014-01-22 Thread Jari Williamsson
Hello! From now on, the future Finale plug-in updates on the Mac side will require OSX 10.7 or later. (Today's updates of JW Pattern and JW Staff Polyphony were the last OSX 10.4 Carbon plug-ins I'll release.) The future plug-in releases will be based my Cocoa UI framework instead, which

[Finale] Anybody having any success with scanning?

2014-01-22 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I know this is an old topic that has been batted around many times. I have owned several of the scanning products (Smartscore, Photoscore, and SharpEye). The last time I used any of them was about 7 years ago. Of the 3, I could sometimes get marginal results with SharpEye, but usually there

Re: [Finale] Anybody having any success with scanning?

2014-01-22 Thread David H. Bailey
On 1/22/2014 10:22 AM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: I know this is an old topic that has been batted around many times. I have owned several of the scanning products (Smartscore, Photoscore, and SharpEye). The last time I used any of them was about 7 years ago. Of the 3, I could sometimes get

Re: [Finale] Anybody having any success with scanning?

2014-01-22 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Craig, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this to get much better if I were you… Cheers, - DJA - WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On Jan 22, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Craig Parmerlee cr...@acticalc.com wrote: I know this is an old topic that has been batted around many times. I

Re: [Finale] Anybody having any success with scanning?

2014-01-22 Thread Scott Jones
After watching Tom Johnson of Finale scan in clinics with relative ease I have gone back to scanning. He tells us that certain scanners are better than others for scanning and that a dpi of 500 or better will achieve optimal results. 300 dpi is pretty awful in scanning music even though we were

Re: [Finale] Anybody having any success with scanning?

2014-01-22 Thread Terry Vosbein
It works fine for mea few hints: Do not scan the music in a scanner and then try to convert it. Open Finale and scan from within Finale Also, only a very few scanners actually work. A very very few. I use an Epson V33 and have no trouble scanning well engraved music. Hope this helps,

Re: [Finale] Anybody having any success with scanning?

2014-01-22 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I used a variety of scan formats and they all produced identical results. One was a 600 BPI TIFF grey scale. It is hard to believe that the scanner model would make such a difference because the image at 600 BPI is extremely crisp on my scanner (which happens to be a Brother. I did some

Re: [Finale] Anybody having any success with scanning?

2014-01-22 Thread Lawrence Yates
I gave up with scanning music - there were so many mistakes that it was easier and quicker to re-type the entire document than scan, check and correct. Sorry, Lawrence On 22 January 2014 19:54, Craig Parmerlee cr...@parmerlee.com wrote: I used a variety of scan formats and they all produced

Re: [Finale] Anybody having any success with scanning?

2014-01-22 Thread John Witmer
Hey Terry, I have an HP Photosmart 6520. Will that work? John Witmer - Original Message - From: Terry Vosbein vosbe...@wlu.edu To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 1:52 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Anybody having any success with scanning? It works fine for mea few

Re: [Finale] Anybody having any success with scanning?

2014-01-22 Thread dr.a.s. weinstangel
I have an HP Scanjet G4010 and it scans into Finale pretty well. Dr.A.S.Weinstangel sasha.weinstan...@utoronto.ca NEW! cel.647-292-4605 From: wit...@nctv.com To: finale@shsu.edu Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:02:57 -0500 Subject: Re: [Finale] Anybody having any success with scanning?

[Finale] problem with hiding staves in 2014

2014-01-22 Thread arabushka
Has anyone had any trouble hiding staves in the 2014 finale? Sometimes the staves are hidden properly, and sometimes they show up even if they're empty. I have a staff style that can force hiding, but I don't need to tell you how awkward this is. Does any of you recognize a problem here? Aaron

Re: [Finale] tambourine sound

2014-01-22 Thread dr.a.s. weinstangel
One more try with this question, as there was no response. Any suggestions, my friends? Dr.A.S.Weinstangel sasha.weinstan...@utoronto.ca NEW! cel.647-292-4605 From: dr...@hotmail.com To: finale@shsu.edu Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:37:29 -0500 Subject: [Finale] tambourine sound

Re: [Finale] tambourine sound

2014-01-22 Thread Jan Angermüller
Open the Score Manager and select your tambourine staff. Set Notation Style to Percussion and select Maracas, Tambourine Shakers in the Percussion layout selection dialog, then click on Select. Back in Score Manager set the Perc. MIDI Map of the tambourine staff to General MIDI and assign

Re: [Finale] Anybody having any success with scanning?

2014-01-22 Thread Craig Parmerlee
When you say it scans pretty well, do you mean that most of the time it accurately recognizes these things: * Key sigs * Meter marks * Dotted notes and ties * Slurs * Repeats and endings * Common dynamics and hairpins * Multi-measure repeats and doesn't add a bunch of extraneous notes you have

Re: [Finale] Anybody having any success with scanning?

2014-01-22 Thread Craig Parmerlee
That does seem to be the experience of the majority. However, the vendors claim great success and apparently some people are finding it good enough to use, at least occasionally. If there are hardware/software/parameter combinations that improve the results, I'd like to discover that because