Re: [Finale] .eps Export/Import into Word

2005-05-23 Thread Jonathan Smith
 From what Darcy says, the replacement of AppleWorks supports PDFs no  problem. AppleWorks6 dates back to when OSX first came out, so the fact  that they can be imported at all is surprising. I guess I will be looking into replacing my venerable AppleWorks. I  kinda liked it; so I hope they

[Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread Christopher Smith
It seems to me that there was a keyboard shortcut to go to a certain bar number, instead of clicking on the measure field at the bottom and typing. I can't find any mention of it in the manual. Does somebody know what it is? FinMac 2005b. Thanks Christopher

Re: [Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Christopher Smith / 2005/05/23 / 11:09 AM wrote: It seems to me that there was a keyboard shortcut to go to a certain bar number, instead of clicking on the measure field at the bottom and typing. I can't find any mention of it in the manual. Does somebody know what it is? FinMac 2005b. I

Re: [Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread dhbailey
John Abram wrote: A-NO-NE Music [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Smith / 2005/05/23 / 11:09 AM wrote: It seems to me that there was a keyboard shortcut to go to a certain bar number, instead of clicking on the measure field at the bottom and typing. I can't find any mention of it in

[Finale] clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread shirling neueweise
i have three sections (each a separate file) of an orchestral score that i combined into one new document using clip files, and am discovering errors, things that weren't copied over, for example, in one section, all smart shapes for a single staff, and even more bizarre, in another section,

Re: [Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread Jari Williamsson
dhbailey wrote: What they're looking for is a simple key-combination that opens a Go To Measure ___ dialog so you don't have to take your hands off the keyboard to get to a particular measure, the way you do now, having to move the mouse cursor to the measure number at the bottom of the

[Finale] Re: clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread shirling neueweise
copied to clip files (cmd-sh-C) cmd-opt-C... maybe there's no reason to use clip files and i should just copy-paste? if the default music font is different in the two files, any expressions defined with the default font from the source are changed to the default font of the target doc

Re: [Finale] clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 May 2005 at 14:25, shirling neueweise wrote: i have three sections (each a separate file) of an orchestral score that i combined into one new document using clip files, and am discovering errors, things that weren't copied over, for example, in one section, all smart shapes for a

Re: [Finale] Re: clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 02:51 PM 5/23/05 -0400, shirling neueweise wrote: maybe there's no reason to use clip files and i should just copy-paste? A few weeks ago I pasted together an orchestral score from 10 individual sections ... you might recall my question about that. Copy/paste never worked properly, and I

Re: [Finale] Re: clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 May 2005 at 14:51, shirling neueweise wrote: copied to clip files (cmd-sh-C) cmd-opt-C... maybe there's no reason to use clip files and i should just copy-paste? There isn't any reason to use clip files, except if there's an advantage of having the persistent data on the hard drive

Re: [Finale] Re: clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread Robert Patterson
David W. Fenton wrote: Finale's copying between files is a complete mess. This statement strikes me as hyperbole, but certainly there are some serious flaws. The consensus is correct that there is no functional difference between Copy/Insert and clip files. They both produce the same

Re: [Finale] Re: clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 May 2005 at 15:05, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 02:51 PM 5/23/05 -0400, shirling neueweise wrote: maybe there's no reason to use clip files and i should just copy-paste? A few weeks ago I pasted together an orchestral score from 10 individual sections ... you might recall my

Re: [Finale] Re: clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:03 PM 5/23/05 -0400, you wrote: I tried both clip files and copy/paste. The problems were identical with both (and I tried it with both). Yes. That's why I suggested copy/INSERT. It's the only one I've used over the years because it seems to work correctly. It would be nice to know if

Re: [Finale] Re: clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 May 2005 at 14:32, Robert Patterson wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: Finale's copying between files is a complete mess. This statement strikes me as hyperbole, but certainly there are some serious flaws. The consensus is correct that there is no functional difference between

Re: [Finale] Re: clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 May 2005 at 16:11, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 04:03 PM 5/23/05 -0400, you wrote: I tried both clip files and copy/paste. The problems were identical with both (and I tried it with both). Yes. That's why I suggested copy/INSERT. It's the only one I've used over the years because

[Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread Ken Moore
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christopher Smith asks: It seems to me that there was a keyboard shortcut to go to a certain bar number, instead of clicking on the measure field at the bottom and typing. I can't find any mention of it in the manual. Does somebody know what it is? FinMac 2005b. On

RE: [Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread Lee Actor
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christopher Smith asks: It seems to me that there was a keyboard shortcut to go to a certain bar number, instead of clicking on the measure field at the bottom and typing. I can't find any mention of it in the manual. Does somebody know what it is? FinMac

Re: [Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread Jari Williamsson
Lee Actor wrote: Do you mean Alt-U? Alt+U for measure number in Scroll View, Alt+A for page number in Page View. Best regards, Jari Williamsson ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] Rotating screens, FinMac2k5 Tiger

2005-05-23 Thread Randolph Peters
At 6:44 PM -0400 5/22/05, Darcy James Argue wrote: I have also heard that there are (at least for the moment) significant performance problems with rotated displays. I suspect that the the slow menus, etc., you are seeing are much more a function of general screen-rotation performance

Re: [Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread Christopher Smith
On May 23, 2005, at 1:24 PM, John Abram wrote: A-NO-NE Music [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Smith / 2005/05/23 / 11:09 AM wrote: It seems to me that there was a keyboard shortcut to go to a certain bar number, instead of clicking on the measure field at the bottom and typing. I

[Finale] Editing Saving Libraries

2005-05-23 Thread David W. Fenton
I'm trying to create some libraries for editorial articulations and expressions, and Finale is giving me fits. I started by saving the libraries from the file where I created them. I then loaded them into a blank template, and deleted all the unnecessary stuff. I then did a data check to

Re: [Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread Christopher Smith
On May 23, 2005, at 12:45 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Christopher Smith / 2005/05/23 / 11:09 AM wrote: It seems to me that there was a keyboard shortcut to go to a certain bar number, instead of clicking on the measure field at the bottom and typing. I can't find any mention of it in the