Re: [Finale] file upgrade experience

2009-05-12 Thread Fiskum, Steve
Hello Randolph, I'm still interested and curious. What makes going to 2002 better than going directly to 2008? I'm not looking for a huge list just a few things. I'm just wondering if I should fire up those old computers because there is something that I'm not seeing in the upgrade process that 20

Re: [Finale] file upgrade experience

2009-05-11 Thread Randolph Peters
Steve has a point. Finale 2008 does some things fairly well when opening an old file. Mid-measure clef changes stay put, for example. But the best method I've tried still involves going through v2002 first. -Randolph Peters Steve Fiskum wrote: I understand the issues with 2009 but what abou

Re: [Finale] file upgrade experience

2009-05-11 Thread Fiskum, Steve
I understand the issues with 2009 but what about upgrading directly to 2008? Steve 5/11/09 9:20 AM, "Randolph Peters" wrote: > The biggest problem in upgrading old files to Finale 2009 is the > scattering of expressions. In the files I was working with, most of my > dynamics showed up far to t

Re: [Finale] file upgrade experience

2009-05-11 Thread Randolph Peters
The biggest problem in upgrading old files to Finale 2009 is the scattering of expressions. In the files I was working with, most of my dynamics showed up far to the right of the page. A dynamic attached to beat 2 in the original might show up as belonging to beat 10 in the upgraded file. A

Re: [Finale] file upgrade experience

2009-05-11 Thread Fiskum, Steve
Hello Randolph, Very interesting. I've upgraded 100s of 2.63 choral files and have good results going directly to 2008. Out of curiosity, what type of music are you upgrading and what types of issues were you having (I agree that 2009 is a disaster to upgrade directly)? Thanks, Steve 5/10/09 10