[Finale] Help from UK friends

2012-08-11 Thread Richard Smith
As a public school music teacher I am eligible for a grant for summer travel for educational purposes and am preparing a grant application for travel to the UK. This will be June-July 2013 and will be about 4 or 5 days in and around London followed by about 10 days in Scotland. Since this grant is

[Finale] FinMac2012b - kernel_task going crazy

2012-08-11 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, I'm working on a large orchestral score in Finale 2012b -- 33 staves -- and while I know that can sometimes cause some sluggishness, I'm now getting ridiculous, productivity-killing slowdowns, even on a fairly new and powerful Mac -- the 2011 MacBook Pro Core i7 (quad-core 2.2 GHz)

Re: [Finale] FinMac2012b - kernel_task going crazy

2012-08-11 Thread Michael Mathew
Darcy, I don't know if this is relative or not because I am not good at computer programming, etc. I'm wondering if DiskWarrior is supposed to help with slow downs and so forth? I have tried it on general principles once in a while and it seems to help sometimes. I also use David Pogues

Re: [Finale] FinMac2012b - kernel_task going crazy

2012-08-11 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Michael, Thanks but is is definitely a Finale problem, not a Mac OS X problem or a computer problem. Everything else runs fine and I keep the machine and OS well-maintained. Cheers, - DJA - WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 11 Aug 2012, at 6:57 PM, Michael Mathew wrote:

Re: [Finale] FinMac2012b - kernel_task going crazy

2012-08-11 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I don't think you specified a OS version, but in 10.8 there seem to be a lot of programs that do not manage memory well. For example, Image Capture on my system, if I scan 300dpi TIFFs, it starts gobbling up ram like there is no tomorrow. Safari 6 seems to also gobble up a lot of memory,

Re: [Finale] FinMac2012b - kernel_task going crazy

2012-08-11 Thread Ryan
Darcy, do you have linked parts in this document? I find that those are a major culprit of slow behavior, especially in large documents. Also (while in the Page Layout tool), look at the Edit Page Margins and Edit System Margins window. Click the Apply to Parts/Score... button. Whatever changes

Re: [Finale] FinMac2012b - kernel_task going crazy

2012-08-11 Thread Michael Mathew
Does this occur when or because we use the setup wizard to set up a score with linked parts? Thanks, MichaelĀ  mmathew_musicp...@yahoo.com http://www.musicengravers.com/cgi-bin/engravers.pl http://oregonmts.com/mathew/ From: Darcy James Argue

[Finale] finale / 3rd party font management incompatibility

2012-08-11 Thread SN jef chippewa
i had probs of sluggishness recently that were completely resolved by quitting linotype fontexplorer while using finale (had no effect on font functionality) support have confirmed an incompatibility between finale and font management programmes. they didn't give me a list but confirmed

Re: [Finale] FinMac2012b - kernel_task going crazy

2012-08-11 Thread SN jef chippewa
here is the solution: Library/Spotlight/SPOTLIGHT_disabled/Finale.mdimporter or... ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] finale / 3rd party font management incompatibility

2012-08-11 Thread Michael Mathew
Thanks, Jef, I have FontExplorer Pro and will now turn it off when working in Finale! Thanks, MichaelĀ  mmathew_musicp...@yahoo.com http://www.musicengravers.com/cgi-bin/engravers.pl http://oregonmts.com/mathew/ From: SN jef chippewa

Re: [Finale] finale / 3rd party font management incompatibility

2012-08-11 Thread SN jef chippewa
hey michael, did you actually notice any slowdowns? i don't get the impression the support guy actually knew *exactly* why this happens... i noticed it only on mac F2012 Thanks, Jef, I have FontExplorer Pro and will now turn it off when working in Finale!

Re: [Finale] FinMac2012b - kernel_task going crazy

2012-08-11 Thread Darcy James Argue
OS X 10.7.4 Cheers, - DJA - WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 11 Aug 2012, at 7:33 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: I don't think you specified a OS version, but in 10.8 there seem to be a lot of programs that do not manage memory well. For example, Image Capture on my system, if I