Re: [Finale] Problem with fonts

2014-01-14 Thread David H. Bailey
On 1/13/2014 8:11 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: Have you tried trashing the Finale preferences? The procedure changes according to the OS, so you had better find out where the correct prefs file is stored. I do not, however, suggest trashing it and then emptying the trash the way they suggest,

Re: [Finale] Problem with fonts

2014-01-14 Thread Christopher Smith
Finale is the only program I own that I have ever had to trash preferences for, and I have owned only Macs since 1990. I don't know why. I also don't know why recent versions of OSX started to hide the preferences folder, complicating the trash prefs procedure. Macs perform routine maintenance

Re: [Finale] Problem with fonts

2014-01-14 Thread Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre
christopher.sm...@videotron.ca To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:41 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Problem with fonts Finale is the only program I own that I have ever had to trash preferences for, and I have owned only Macs since 1990. I don't know why. I also don't know why recent versions

[Finale] Problem with fonts

2014-01-13 Thread Jón Kristinn Cortez
Hello all. I use Times or Times New Roman for lyrics and text-blocks. They have been acting strangely; disappearing if I use italics or bold, or squeezing all together into a lump of letters in space of one. This does not happen with other fonts. Are there font preferences I can thrash (where are

[Finale] Problem with fonts

2014-01-13 Thread Jón Kristinn Cortez
Hello all. I use Times or Times New Roman for lyrics and text-blocks. They have been acting strangely; disappearing if I use italics or bold, or squeezing all together into a lump of letters in space of one. This does not happen with other fonts or in other applications. Are there font

Re: [Finale] Problem with fonts

2014-01-13 Thread Christopher Smith
On the Finale Forum, there is a sticky on the Mac side called Font Problem on OSX. It may very well be caused by having two different version of the same font name active at once. Follow the directions in the sticky, and write back if the problem persists. Christopher

Re: [Finale] Problem with fonts

2014-01-13 Thread Jón Kristinn Cortez
Thank you, Christopher, done that, no change. I sent a song that displayed incorrectly on my desktop computer through Dropbox and opened it in Finale 2012 in my MacBook. Now everything is correct; lyrics, text-boxes and even the slurs that are drawn into the noteheads. In MacBook I moved an

Re: [Finale] Problem with fonts

2014-01-13 Thread Chuck Israels
Trashing and rebuilding the preferences is a good first thing to try. Chuck On Jan 13, 2014, at 5:00 PM, Jón Kristinn Cortez cor...@internet.is wrote: Thank you, Christopher, done that, no change. I sent a song that displayed incorrectly on my desktop computer through Dropbox and opened

Re: [Finale] Problem with fonts

2014-01-13 Thread John Blane
Sounds like corrupted fonts. Can you replace them on your PC with new copies? JB Sent from my iPhone using my thumbs w/out a spellchecker On Jan 13, 2014, at 7:00 PM, Jón Kristinn Cortez cor...@internet.is wrote: Thank you, Christopher, done that, no change. I sent a song that displayed

Re: [Finale] Problem with fonts

2014-01-13 Thread Christopher Smith
Have you tried trashing the Finale preferences? The procedure changes according to the OS, so you had better find out where the correct prefs file is stored. I do not, however, suggest trashing it and then emptying the trash the way they suggest, as this may not solve the problem and then

Re: [Finale] Problem with fonts

2014-01-13 Thread Jón Kristinn Cortez
I'd then better contact Apple and ask where the prefs might be stored, and also get new fonts, or just copy the ones in my MacBook. Thank you; Christopher, Chuck, John. Cortez On 14.1.2014, at 01:11, Christopher Smith wrote: Have you tried trashing the Finale preferences? The procedure

Re: [Finale] Problem with fonts

2014-01-13 Thread John Blane
Maybe I have mis-understood, if your desktop is also a MAC, then yes, you can use the MacBook fonts to replace them. JB Sent from my iPhone using my thumbs w/out a spellchecker On Jan 13, 2014, at 7:16 PM, Jón Kristinn Cortez cor...@internet.is wrote: I'd then better contact Apple and ask

Re: [Finale] Problem with fonts

2014-01-13 Thread John Roberts
Where is the preferences file in 2014a/Mavericks? I can't seem to find it. JR On 1/13/14, 8:05 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Trashing and rebuilding the preferences is a good first thing to try. Chuck On Jan 13, 2014, at 5:00 PM, Jón Kristinn Cortez cor...@internet.is wrote: Thank you,

Re: [Finale] Problem with fonts

2014-01-13 Thread John Roberts
OK - found it - hidden folder. JR On 1/13/14, 11:57 PM, John Roberts wrote: Where is the preferences file in 2014a/Mavericks? I can't seem to find it. JR On 1/13/14, 8:05 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Trashing and rebuilding the preferences is a good first thing to try. Chuck On Jan 13,