[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

[Finale] That magical SPEED LOSS folder

2006-04-26 Thread Liudas
Can someone please remind me where that magical Finale temp speed loss folder is, and what to empty from it to get Finale to work quickly again? Liudas ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

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

[Finale] Converting Midi Files to Wav files to be burned on audio cds.

2006-04-26 Thread Arthur Craig
I learned of this group at a conference MusiCalifornia, last week. I am so excited to participate!Is there a way to convert midi files to wav files and then burn them on an audio cd? I have Finale 2000? Has anyone done this, and if so could you please send me a step by step procedure. Many

[Finale] Re: Multimeasure rest symbols in 4/2

2006-04-26 Thread Ken Moore
John Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But as to wanting to revert to the stacks of rests (which go back in time to the inventor of rests with specific values, Franco of Cologne, in the 13th century), I was never so happy as when modern publications dropped that old-fashioned business in

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

Re: [Finale] Converting Midi Files to Wav files to be burned on audio cds.

2006-04-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Apr 2006 at 10:07, Arthur Craig wrote: I learned of this group at a conference MusiCalifornia, last week. I am so excited to participate! Is there a way to convert midi files to wav files and then burn them on an audio cd? I have Finale 2000? Has anyone done this, and if so

[Finale] FinaleScript Booklet

2006-04-26 Thread John Bell
FinMac 2006d Having for years made booklets using the slightly long-winded method of adding pages to make multiples of 4 and specifying the page order etc, I decided to try the FinaleScript method. I set the printer to 2-up, short-edge binding. I ran the Print Booklet script in the

Re: [Finale] FinaleScript Booklet

2006-04-26 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 26.04.2006 John Bell wrote: FinMac 2006d Having for years made booklets using the slightly long-winded method of adding pages to make multiples of 4 and specifying the page order etc, I decided to try the FinaleScript method. I set the printer to 2-up, short-edge binding. I ran the Print

Re: [Finale] Converting Midi Files to Wav files to be burned on audio cds.

2006-04-26 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
If you are on Mac ... just go FileSave SpecialSave as an Audio File. I save it to desktop then drag it into iTunes, from whence you can burn it directly to a CD. I'm operating on Fin2006d. Dean On Apr 26, 2006, at 10:07 AM, Arthur Craig wrote: I learned of this group at a conference