Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-29 Thread dhbailey
dc wrote: Fisher, Allen écrit: EPS/PS listings require a PS printer driver. Why? This makes little sense. In any case, it is rather amusing that we used to get this warning when EPS didn't work (even with the PS printer driver). And now that it does seem to work, the indispensable warning

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-29 Thread dhbailey
dc wrote: dhbailey écrit: It does make some sense, in that otherwise Finale would have to license PostScript from Adobe and include all the routines for producing PS output internally. By calling on a PS printer driver, it avoids having to license that technology but still gets the data and

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-28 Thread Scot Hanna-Weir
Title: Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs. Have you checked to see if adding a page size to the pagesizes.txt file has any bearing on that drop down? My guess is that is not going to change anything, but its probably worth a shot. You can learn more about pagesizes.txt in the appendix

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-28 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 08:46 AM 4/28/06 -0500, you wrote: Have you checked to see if adding a page size to the pagesizes.txt file has any bearing on that drop down? My guess is that is not going to change anything, but it#8217;s probably worth a shot. You can learn more about pagesizes.txt in the appendix of the

RE: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-28 Thread Fisher, Allen
We fixed that in 2k6b for windows, I believe. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dc Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 11:38 AM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs. Dennis Bathory-Kitsz écrit: I

RE: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-28 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 06:12 PM 4/28/06 +0200, dc wrote: Fisher, Allen écrit: We fixed that in 2k6b for windows, I believe. I'm told it doesn't work in 2k6c, where the distilling of PS compiled by Finale with Include fonts in listing ticked gives an error message for all the fonts: Maestro PS, and the different OT

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-28 Thread Johannes Gebauer
How did Liudas get his sample files (on his web page) so clear and crisp? I see they are done on Windows, and orriginate in Fin2k1. Liudas, how did you do it? Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-28 Thread Scott Amort
dc wrote: Thanks, Allen, but I'm told it doesn't work in 2k6c, where the distilling of PS compiled by Finale with Include fonts in listing ticked gives an error message for all the fonts: Maestro PS, and the different OT text fonts. They are ALL replaced with Courier. Exporting EPS is no

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-28 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:42 PM 4/28/06 -0400, Scott Amort wrote: I can confirm that using Fin2K6c, on WinXP with *only* the PS version of Maestro installed generates a Postscript listing with invalid Type 1 font information. Not here. Works fine with Maestro Type 1 installed (and TTF uninstalled). I've tried

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-28 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
http://www.verypdf.com/artprint/document-printer/eps-to-ps.html (the only) Kim :) On 4/28/06, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:42 PM 4/28/06 -0400, Scott Amort wrote:I can confirm that using Fin2K6c, on WinXP with *only* the PS version of Maestro installed generates a

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-28 Thread Scott Amort
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 01:42 PM 4/28/06 -0400, Scott Amort wrote: I can confirm that using Fin2K6c, on WinXP with *only* the PS version of Maestro installed generates a Postscript listing with invalid Type 1 font information. Not here. Works fine with Maestro Type 1 installed (and

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-28 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 02:40 PM 4/28/06 -0400, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: http://www.verypdf.com/artprint/document-printer/eps-to-ps.html Back to step #1. Just like Finale, it doesn't respect the page size in the EPS. There are no custom options in the setup, so no way to set the correct page size. :( Dennis

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-28 Thread Scott Amort
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 02:44 PM 4/28/06 -0400, you wrote: If you don't mind, could you send me a one-page ps or eps that works for you so I can test to see if it is a distillation problem instead of a generation one? Attached PS/PDF, EPS/PDF. Hi Dennis ( the other one :-) ), I

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-28 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 03:55 PM 4/28/06 -0400, Scott Amort wrote: I think what is happening here is that you created your postscript listing/eps while you had the TrueType version of Maestro installed. Did you remove the TrueType version before or after you compiled the listing? I removed it before. Moved it

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-28 Thread Scott Amort
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: I removed it before. Moved it completely off the machine for the duration. I think I have solved the problem. Do you have a PostScript printer as your default? I do not. Finale seems to rely on the default printer driver to compile the PS listing. Once I

RE: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-28 Thread Fisher, Allen
: Sharp and crisp PDFs. Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: I removed it before. Moved it completely off the machine for the duration. I think I have solved the problem. Do you have a PostScript printer as your default? I do not. Finale seems to rely on the default printer driver to compile

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-28 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 05:32 PM 4/28/06 -0400, Scott Amort wrote: I think I have solved the problem. Do you have a PostScript printer as your default? I do not. Finale seems to rely on the default printer driver to compile the PS listing. Once I switched mine to a PS driver, both the PS listing and EPS output

RE: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-28 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs. Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: I removed it before. Moved it completely off the machine for the duration. I think I have solved the problem. Do you have a PostScript printer as your default? I do not. Finale seems to rely on the default printer driver

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-27 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 05:51 PM 4/26/06 +0200, Barbara Touburg wrote: Dennis, you take the words right out of my mouth! I was ready to cheer, but no, alas.. I'll try the graphics tool. QA with Customer Support. How it has always been. Submission Date: 4/26/2006 12:38:44 PM (Central Standard Time) Submitter:

[Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-26 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
I know someone who uses Sibelius and they sent me a PDF of a file. Instantly the minute the PDF opened on my screen, the quality wasnoticeably better than any PDF I have created with Finale. Are there some settings that I don't know about to make the absolutely sharpest, clearest PDF possible. Or

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-26 Thread Jón Kristinn Cortez
I made this PDF a few minutes ago http://www.isalog.info/notur/sumar.pdf , how does that compare?CortezI know someone who uses Sibelius and they sent me a PDF of a file. Instantly the minute the PDF opened on my screen, the quality was noticeably better than any PDF I have created with Finale.  

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-26 Thread Christopher Smith
On Apr 26, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: I know someone who uses Sibelius and they sent me a PDF of a file. Instantly the minute the PDF opened on my screen, the quality was noticeably better than any PDF I have created with Finale.   Are there some settings that I don't know

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-26 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 26.04.2006 Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Here's a sample of my PDF @ http://www.bytenet.net/kpclow/finale/sample.pdf I used the highest setting possible (Printer's quality) and I upped the DPI to 2400. Still not as good as this Molter sample, or the Sibelius. My beams seem very ragged, no matter

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-26 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:44 PM 4/26/06 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote: I am pretty sure this is the known FinWin only problem. There has been a lot of discussion about this in the past. I don't know the details, but I was under the impression that Fin2k6 corrected this. AAHHH! I had *so* given

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-26 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
Finale : $600.00 Acrobat:$200.00 Finale's Mailing List : Priceless ;) On 4/26/06, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:44 PM 4/26/06 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote:I am pretty sure this is the known FinWin only problem. There has been a lot of discussion about this in the past. I

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-26 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 05:21 PM 4/26/06 +0200, you wrote: I'm still on 2K4, but was told that there were still font issues with FinWin2K6. Could you try with the three different types of fonts (TT, PS and OT) and let us know if they are all embedded correctly? I will soon. The file I just distilled has both

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-26 Thread Barbara Touburg
Dennis, you take the words right out of my mouth! I was ready to cheer, but no, alas.. I'll try the graphics tool. Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: However, there is a problem anyway. Even with the printer set up to the custom paper size, it won't compile to it. I use a very nice 9.25x12.25

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-26 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 05:21 PM 4/26/06 +0200, you wrote: I'm still on 2K4, but was told that there were still font issues with FinWin2K6. Could you try with the three different types of fonts (TT, PS and OT) and let us know if they are all embedded correctly? It finished compiling, but OpenType fonts crash the

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-26 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
I used Finale 2005a with Acrobat 6.0 on XP Box. Johannes, your PDF looked fine. There weren't any issues. The quality of it also made me wonder that I was doing something wrong. My apologies too for bring up an issue that may have been discussed earlier. I tend to focus on a narrow band of issues

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-26 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 26.04.2006 Kim Patrick Clow wrote: My apologies too for bring up an issue that may have been discussed earlier. I tend to focus on a narrow band of issues that are a roadblock at the time, and I tend not to pay a lot of attention if it's not something I am working on at that time. I just

Re: [Finale] Finale: Sharp and crisp PDFs.

2006-04-26 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 05:21 PM 4/26/06 +0200, you wrote: I'm still on 2K4, but was told that there were still font issues with FinWin2K6. Could you try with the three different types of fonts (TT, PS and OT) and let us know if they are all embedded correctly? I just tried this under WinXP. The fonts all embed and