Re: [Finale] OS X 10.4 Tiger

2005-03-22 Thread Eric Dussault
I haven't timed the exact duration of eps. export, but I've seen it take around 8-10 seconds per page on big scores. About 4-5 seconds is what I estimate it takes for normal sized music. Le 05-03-22, à 00:06, Paul Hayden a écrit : Éric Dussault Eric Dussault wrote: EPS export takes forever on

Re: [Finale] OS X 10.4 Tiger

2005-03-22 Thread Richard Yates
EPS export takes forever on ANY system. How long does it take you gentlemen to export one page from a score or part? 10 years and still waiting. Richard Yates Finale for Windows 2005 ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] OS X 10.4 Tiger

2005-03-22 Thread Christopher Smith
On Mar 22, 2005, at 12:06 AM, Paul Hayden wrote: How long does it take you gentlemen to export one page from a score or part? I was interested in this thread, as I have an aging G4 733 mHz with Panther, so I did a test (FinMac 2005a). To print to PDF, from the time I press OK to the time that

Re: [Finale] OS X 10.4 Tiger

2005-03-22 Thread Christopher Smith
On Mar 22, 2005, at 6:43 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: On Mar 22, 2005, at 12:06 AM, Paul Hayden wrote: How long does it take you gentlemen to export one page from a score or part? I was interested in this thread, as I have an aging G4 733 mHz with Panther, so I did a test (FinMac 2005a). To

Re: [Finale] OS X 10.4 Tiger

2005-03-22 Thread Christopher Smith
On Mar 22, 2005, at 6:54 AM, Richard Yates wrote: EPS export takes forever on ANY system. How long does it take you gentlemen to export one page from a score or part? 10 years and still waiting. Richard Yates Finale for Windows 2005 Aw, that sounded so pathetic; I feel really bad for you guys. So

Re: [Finale] pick-up measure

2005-03-22 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 06:44 AM 3/20/05 -0500, dhbailey wrote: Owain Sutton wrote: Slight hijack: Why is it that choirs never seem to be able to use bar numbers, even when provided in their edition? Why do conductors always seem to need to say Orchestra, from bar 68, choir, from 'Qui tollis'...? Either that,

[Finale] Re: OS X 10.4 Tiger

2005-03-22 Thread Paul Hayden
Eric Dussault wrote: I haven't timed the exact duration of eps. export, but I've seen it take around 8-10 seconds per page on big scores. About 4-5 seconds is what I estimate it takes for normal sized music. Times for my old Power Mac G4 (500 MHz), OS X 10.3.5, FinMac04c r1: 1. large 11 X 17

[Finale] Tweaking Exported Parts

2005-03-22 Thread Jonathan Smith
Deluded - well maybe, but my method (message 4 last posting) works fine without the need to load any more plugins and takes only a few seconds to set up. If it can be done successfully within Finale then why not do it? Read the original question to this thread and you'll see that my solution

[Finale] Exporting eps

2005-03-22 Thread David Froom
Paul Hayden askes: How long does it take you gentlemen to export one page from a score or part? I use eps export for everything I do in Finale. I use a G4 powerbook, 1.33ghz, OS 10.3.8, 1.5 gb ram. It takes me seven seconds to export a single page (I just tried it). I usually don't get the

Re: [Finale] Tweaking Exported Parts

2005-03-22 Thread Christopher Smith
Oh, lighten up! I only began using Robert's Copyist plugin myself recently, and up until then I was happily using the same method as you were (except when I use Special Parts Extraction. If the score allows it easily (say, when there are a lot of instruments playing at the same time, or if

[Finale] OT Giant Steps

2005-03-22 Thread Christopher Smith
For those who are fans of John Coltrane, check out this animation. So simple, yet he really seems to hear the piece the way I think a lot of jazz musicians might hear it. It's kind of like a Fantasia (the movie) treatment for jazz nuts. http://michalevy.com/gs_download.html Christopher

Re: [Finale] OT Giant Steps

2005-03-22 Thread Chuck Israels
Brilliant. It exposes the architecture of the music without demeaning it by making it a subservient accompaniment to the animation. Thanks for the link, Chris Chuck On Mar 22, 2005, at 12:24 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: For those who are fans of John Coltrane, check out this animation. So

Re: [Finale] Tweaking Exported Parts

2005-03-22 Thread Robert Patterson
I can't claim to be disinterested in this subject, but FWIW there is no need to speculate whether the plugin provides enough added value to be worth the price. If you download and install it, you get a 30-day fully functional free trial. -Original Message- From: Jonathan Smith

Re: [Finale] OT Giant Steps

2005-03-22 Thread Brad Beyenhof
Oddly, I can't see that page. I keep getting a michalevy.com cannot be found error, even if I put www. at the front. I've tried in Firefox (OSX and XP), Safari (OSX), and Camino (OSX) to no avail. Too bad... it sounded like it would have been great! -Brad On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:24:08 -0500,

Re: [Finale] OT Giant Steps

2005-03-22 Thread Christopher Smith
Try going to michalevy.com and click on Giant Steps animation. Christopher On Mar 22, 2005, at 4:29 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: Oddly, I can't see that page. I keep getting a michalevy.com cannot be found error, even if I put www. at the front. I've tried in Firefox (OSX and XP), Safari (OSX), and

Re: [Finale] OT Giant Steps

2005-03-22 Thread Christopher Smith
You also need Flash player. If you don't have it, that might be the problem. Christopher On Mar 22, 2005, at 4:29 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: Oddly, I can't see that page. I keep getting a michalevy.com cannot be found error, even if I put www. at the front. I've tried in Firefox (OSX and XP),

Re: [Finale] Re: OS X 10.4 Tiger

2005-03-22 Thread Eric Dussault
Le 05-03-22, à 13:33, Paul Hayden a écrit : I just hope a dual-2.5 GHz Power Mac G5 with Finale 2005 or 2006 will perform EPS exports at a decent speed without that stupid font warning window (fixed in Fin05, I hope). No. it isn't fixed. Éric Dussault

Re: [Finale] OT Giant Steps

2005-03-22 Thread Brad Beyenhof
No, the problem is that my browsers can't even connect to that server. Maybe it's just the network at the office; I'll try again when I get home. -Brad On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:03:47 -0500, Christopher Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try going to michalevy.com and click on Giant Steps

Re: [Finale] OT Giant Steps

2005-03-22 Thread Kurt Gnos
Very nice! Simple but nice! Kurt At 21:24 22.03.2005, you wrote: For those who are fans of John Coltrane, check out this animation. So simple, yet he really seems to hear the piece the way I think a lot of jazz musicians might hear it. It's kind of like a Fantasia (the movie) treatment for jazz

Re: [Finale] OT Giant Steps

2005-03-22 Thread Brad Beyenhof
Aha! Tried again, and it inexplicably came up! Good stuff... I enjoyed it. Very accurate visual depiction of the sound. Brad On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:41:34 +0100, Kurt Gnos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very nice! Simple but nice! Kurt At 21:24 22.03.2005, you wrote: For those who are fans of

RE: [Finale] OT Giant Steps

2005-03-22 Thread Crystal Premo
Wonderful! Crystal Premo [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christopher Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: [Finale] OT Giant Steps Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:24:08 -0500 For those who are fans of John Coltrane, check out this animation. So simple, yet he really

[Finale] OT: %$@*!! Word

2005-03-22 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, This is something that's been bothering me for a long time, and I thought I'd ask the list if there's any solution: How do I PERMANENTLY get rid of the damn Adobe Acrobat PDF Maker Toolbar in Word (v11.1 for Mac OS X)? If I go to Tools - Customize - Customize Toolbars Menus, I can

Re: [Finale] OT: %$@*!! Word

2005-03-22 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:51:12 -0500, Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never asked for this toolbar in the first place, and I can't seem to figure out how to banish it. Found at: http://macobserver.com/columns/rantsandraves/2004/20040709.shtml You can remove it (from Office 2004) by

Re: [Finale] OT: %$@*!! Word

2005-03-22 Thread Carlberg Jones
At 4:01 PM -0800 3/22/05, Brad Beyenhof wrote: You can remove it (from Office 2004) by deleting the following files: Easy to do and it works! Thanks. Shortcut - copy the file name at the end of each file reference - just copy PDFMaker.xla from /Applications/Microsoft Office

Re: [Finale] OT: %$@*!! Word

2005-03-22 Thread Darcy James Argue
Thanks, Brad. I owe you one. (I shoulda asked years ago!) - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 22 Mar 2005, at 7:01 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:51:12 -0500, Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never asked for this toolbar in the first place, and I can't

Re: [Finale] OT: %$@*!! Word

2005-03-22 Thread Brad Beyenhof
Eh, you just owe me for the five minutes it took me to refine my Google search to 'remove PDF Maker toolbar os-x'. By the way, that search incorporated my two favorite little-known Google tricks (this thread is OT, so I can talk about whatever I want! :-P): 1. Adding a hyphen between terms (as

Re: [Finale] OT Giant Steps

2005-03-22 Thread Raymond Horton
Christopher Smith wrote: For those who are fans of John Coltrane, check out this animation. So simple, yet he really seems to hear the piece the way I think a lot of jazz musicians might hear it. It's kind of like a Fantasia (the movie) treatment for jazz nuts.

[Finale] Incorrectly Printing Articulation (?)

2005-03-22 Thread Neal Gittleman
Hi... Question for those way more font-knowledgable than me... I'm trying to extrapolate something in a score which may or not have been printed in Finale (I suspect maybe not). There's a pizzicato note (violin double-stop A-E -- open string A and E) that has to the left of each note an

Re: [Finale] Incorrectly Printing Articulation (?)

2005-03-22 Thread John Bell
I don't have any special font-knowledge, and I can't find an upside-down A in any conventional font, but might it have have been an O for open strings? Or conceivably a Bartok pizz? John On 23 Mar 2005, at 03:59, Neal Gittleman wrote: Hi... Question for those way more font-knowledgable than

Re: [Finale] Incorrectly Printing Articulation (?)

2005-03-22 Thread John Bell
PS On reflection, since you say the inverted A is beside both notes it's unlikely to be an articulation -- only one instance would appear in that case -- so unless my earlier suggestion of O for open string is wrong it must me something else that applies to each of the two notes. Such as an

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

2005-03-22 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
John Howell wrote: But MotU seem no longer to be supporting Mosaic, despite this ability. My son-in-law was smart enough to get it operable for me in OSX Classic, so I can (for the moment) still access hundreds of my scores, but soon I'll inevitably lose them. Dennis' fear of losing access