Re: [Finale] Finale 2006-2012-2014 for Windows - Chord suffix selection - options buttons not present

2018-09-19 Thread marcellon...@gmail.com
You're right! Why has it to be so intricated the way too get that complete window? I could remember I ran into that trick many years ago but completely forgotten it. Many thanks Christopher Il 19/09/2018 14.40, Christopher Smith ha scritto: I know what’s going on. There are TWO different

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006-2012-2014 for Windows - Chord suffix selection - options buttons not present

2018-09-19 Thread Christopher Smith
I know what’s going on. There are TWO different dialogue boxes called “Chord Suffix Selection”. One has the edit and create buttons; the other doesn’t. This IS a stupid thing, because I often want the create buttons when the one that lacks them is open, and I’ve complained about this for about

[Finale] Finale 2006-2012-2014 for Windows - Chord suffix selection - options buttons not present

2018-09-19 Thread marcellon...@gmail.com
Hi to all I never had the need to modify the chord library I used (Jazzfont or Handwritten) but now I would want to group all the suffixes I use mostly one near the other. Well, the buttons from "edit" to "create" that are mentioned in the User Manual aren't there in the Chord Suffix

Re: [Finale] 2006/2007 copy strangeness

2008-09-02 Thread Richard Huggins
A scratch staff is a staff just the same, and perhaps one of the MIDI channels assigned to 1-4 also is assigned to 5. Make sure 5 has its own MIDI channel. As for copying, make sure she looks at Items to Copy and de-select Performance Data. I don't know (because I've never tried it) but

[Finale] 2006/2007 copy strangeness

2008-08-31 Thread Ralph Whitfield
I have a friend who has posed me a question that I can't replicate. Setup: 5 staves: staff 1: Soprano/Alto - Midi channel 1, Choir Ahs staff 2: Tenor/Bass - Midi channel 2, Choir Ahs staff 3: Piano RH - Midi channel 3, piano staff 4: Piano LH - Midi channel 3, piano staff 5: scratch staff: The

[Finale] Finale 2006 scroll hang

2006-12-15 Thread John Hinchey
Hi, I've got a problem with Finale 2006d 2007. When I tried to scroll in scroll view (or mixer) more that a couple of bars at a time, Finale hangs (beach ball) and I have to force quit. It's to the point where I can't work, on this file. I'm on a G5 dual 2.5 with 5 gig or ram and a Dell

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 scroll hang

2006-12-15 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Well, not the same setup, but you could try deleting the Finale Preferences file. I had an issue on my iMac where it couldn't adjust page margins in Page view (the menu selection), and deleting that file solved it. I think it is in UserName/Library/Preferences/ and the file is Finale 2007

[Finale] Finale 2006 slow on 30 monitor

2006-08-13 Thread Dejan Badnjar
Is anybody running Finale @ 2560x1600 resolution on Dell 3007WFP or Apple 30 ACD monitor? My Finale 2006 seems sluggish on Dell 3007 with GeForce 7800GTX (Win XP Pro). It feels like Sibelius 1 did on Mac when it came out. I know this is a lot to ask of a music program (or any program

[Finale] Finale 2006 on 30 monitor

2006-08-12 Thread Dejan Badnjar
Is anybody running Finale @ 2560x1600 pixel resolution on Dell 3007WFP or Apple 30 ACD monitor? My Finale 2006 seems sluggish on Dell 3007 with GeForce 7800GTX (Win XP Pro). It feels like Sibelius 1 did on Mac when it came out. I know this is a lot to ask of a music program (or any program

[Finale] RE: Finale 2006 support foreign fonts in lyrics?

2006-04-11 Thread Michael Good
Hi Jerry, You can get Chinese text into Finale text and lyrics. But there are extra steps involved given Finale's lack of support for Unicode. You have to set the Finale text/lyrics to be Chinese script, not Western script. On XP, you probably have to set Chinese in the language bar when using

[Finale] Finale 2006 support foreign fonts in lyrics?

2006-04-10 Thread Jerry Liu
Hi, Has anybody successfully enter lyrics in foreign fonts in Finale 2006? I am looking for specifically entering Chinese Big5 Unicode characters. I have downloaded the 2006 demo but could not enter any Chinese characters even with my TwinBridge Chinese Partner running on XP Pro. Has anyone done

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 support foreign fonts in lyrics?

2006-04-10 Thread Christopher Smith
On Apr 10, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Jerry Liu wrote: Hi, Has anybody successfully enter lyrics in foreign fonts in Finale 2006? I am looking for specifically entering Chinese Big5 Unicode characters. I have downloaded the 2006 demo but could not enter any Chinese characters even with my

RE: [Finale] Finale 2006 Win - not possible to run it withoutadministrator rights?

2006-04-06 Thread Fisher, Allen
4:10 AMTo: finale@shsu.eduSubject: [Finale] Finale 2006 Win - not possible to run it withoutadministrator rights? I installed Finale 2006 on a Win 2000 Pro system using administrator rights. I need to run it from a normal user account. I try to run it and I get "f

RE: [Finale] Finale 2006 Win - not possible to run it withoutadministrator rights?

2006-04-06 Thread David W. Fenton
On 6 Apr 2006 at 8:57, Fisher, Allen wrote: You need to first activate it as an Administrative user. Then your normal user accounts should be able to access it. Finale only requires Admin rights to register it. Shouldn't the registration process know this, and activate the RunAs service if

[Finale] Finale 2006 Win - not possible to run it without administrator rights?

2006-04-05 Thread themark
I installed Finale 2006 on a Win 2000 Pro system using administrator rights. I need to run it from a normal user account. I try to run it and I get "finale encountered an error. please reinstall Finale". I had not yet registered the prog. Should I register it first with adm

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 Win - not possible to run it without administrator rights?

2006-04-05 Thread Phil Daley
At 4/5/2006 05:10 AM, themark wrote: I installed Finale 2006 on a Win 2000 Pro system using administrator rights. I need to run it from a normal user account. I try to run it and I get finale encountered an error. please reinstall Finale. There are 2 possible problems that I can think

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 Win - not possible to run it withoutadministrator rights?

2006-04-05 Thread Marcello Noia
- Original Message - From: Phil Daley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 Win - not possible to run it withoutadministrator rights? At 4/5/2006 05:10 AM, themark wrote: I installed Finale 2006 on a Win 2000

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 Win - not possible to run it without administrator rights?

2006-04-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Apr 2006 at 11:10, themark wrote: I installed Finale 2006 on a Win 2000 Pro system using administrator rights. I need to run it from a normal user account. I try to run it and I get finale encountered an error. please reinstall Finale. I had not yet registered the prog. Should I

Re: [Finale] How does Finale 2006 run on an Intel Mac?

2006-03-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
G5. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY On 03 Mar 2006, at 2:23 AM, Brian Williams wrote: I know this has been discussed before, but how fast does Finale 2006 run on the new Intel-based MacBooks? Faster or slower than on a top-of-the- line PowerPC

[Finale] How does Finale 2006 run on an Intel Mac?

2006-03-02 Thread Brian Williams
I know this has been discussed before, but how fast does Finale 2006 run on the new Intel-based MacBooks? Faster or slower than on a top-of-the-line PowerPC-based PowerBook? I thought that Finale was compiled using CodeWarrior (not XCode) and therefore might have problems. Brian

[Finale] Re: Mass Copy in Finale 2006

2006-02-02 Thread Brian Williams
Hold down only the opt key as you click on the target measure. John Thanks so much for this info. I've been using Finale (Mac) since version 2.0.1. Old habits are hard to break! Brian ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

RE: [Finale] Mass Copy in Finale 2006

2006-02-01 Thread Fisher, Allen
I always thought shift was used to bypass dialogs, at least in Finale... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of A-NO-NE Music Sent: Tue 1/31/2006 9:00 AM To: finale@shsu.edu Cc: Subject:Re: [Finale] Mass Copy in Finale 2006 Christopher Smith / 2006

Re: [Finale] Mass Copy in Finale 2006

2006-02-01 Thread Christopher Smith
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of A-NO-NE Music Sent: Tue 1/31/2006 9:00 AM To: finale@shsu.edu Cc: Subject:Re: [Finale] Mass Copy in Finale 2006 Christopher Smith / 2006/01/31 / 07:08 AM wrote: John Bell got it right - hold down just the Opt key to skip the dialogue box. Once

Re: [Finale] Mass Copy in Finale 2006

2006-02-01 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Fisher, Allen / 2006/02/01 / 09:17 AM wrote: I always thought shift was used to bypass dialogs, at least in Finale... Nope. Example. Create an expression, then hit OK while Cmd is pressed. You bypass the rest of the dialog boxes. This has been this way since v1.0 which I paid $1,000 for! --

Re: [Finale] DB-skip key (was Mass Copy in Finale 2006)

2006-02-01 Thread Robert Patterson
.) -Original Message- From: A-NO-NE Music [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2006 04:52 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] Mass Copy in Finale 2006 Fisher, Allen / 2006/02/01 / 09:17 AM wrote: I always thought shift was used to bypass dialogs

[Finale] Mass Copy in Finale 2006

2006-01-31 Thread Brian Williams
Dear list, I just started using Finale 2006 for real work and discovered a disturbing new loss of functionality. In the mass mover tool, whenever you select a region and attempt to copy it to other staves you are greeted in every instance by an annoying dialog box that takes the place

Re: [Finale] Mass Copy in Finale 2006

2006-01-31 Thread John Bell
Brian Hold down only the opt key as you click on the target measure. John On 31 Jan 2006, at 10:28, Brian Williams wrote: Dear list, I just started using Finale 2006 for real work and discovered a disturbing new loss of functionality. In the mass mover tool, whenever you select

Re: [Finale] Mass Copy in Finale 2006

2006-01-31 Thread Christopher Smith
: Dear list, I just started using Finale 2006 for real work and discovered a disturbing new loss of functionality. In the mass mover tool, whenever you select a region and attempt to copy it to other staves you are greeted in every instance by an annoying dialog box that takes the place

Re: [Finale] Mass Copy in Finale 2006

2006-01-31 Thread Robert Patterson
copy-paste between documents doesn't copy everything, Are you talking about meas-attached shapes here? Is that what Fin06 doesn't copy that prior versions did copy? I had hoped MM was gonna restore that in a maintenance release, but perhaps not, huh? For me the biggest loss of functionality

Re: [Finale] Mass Copy in Finale 2006

2006-01-31 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Christopher Smith / 2006/01/31 / 07:08 AM wrote: John Bell got it right - hold down just the Opt key to skip the dialogue box. Once I got this, things got a LOT faster! My biggest pleasure with 2006 was this new Mass Mover (still can't remember the new name for this tool!) improvement, but I

Re: [Finale] Mass Copy in Finale 2006

2006-01-31 Thread Chuck Israels
On Jan 31, 2006, at 4:08 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: The only big loss of functionality with the new copy behaviour (for me on Mac, dunno about PC) is that drag-and-drop between documents is now disabled, Christopher, I just tried this, and it does work. It's a little dicey

[Finale] Finale 2006 Win EPS working!

2005-12-14 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hey, thanks MakeMusic / Coda! My biggest wish has been fulfilled. After (only) about ten years of waiting, EPS windows really works again! I just did some tests, and it works fine, but ONLY if I include the fonts which results in bigger files of course, but then, what the heck, it works!!!

[Finale] Finale 2006 PC

2005-11-26 Thread Henry E. Howey
Friends, I need to know if anyone else has no MP3 capability. I will try a reload, but I cannot understand why. Henry Howey Professor of Music Sam Houston State University Box 2208 Huntsville, TX 77341 (936) 294-1364 http://www.shsu.edu/~music/faculty/howey.html Owner of FINALE

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 Mac GPO

2005-11-01 Thread Gerald Berg
Saw this hadn't been hit on. I don't have the web site handy -- I'd have to search like you but go to the Garritan site and root around -- that's how I found it. Jerry On 30-Oct-05, at 11:20 PM, Frank Fitzpatrick wrote: I read an aside in a recent post that the problems with Finale 2006

[Finale] Finale 2006 Mac GPO

2005-10-30 Thread Frank Fitzpatrick
I read an aside in a recent post that the problems with Finale 2006 (mine is Mac) and GPO were resolved by an update or bug fix of some kind from Native Instruments. I missed any earlier postings there may have been about how to find the fixes. Can anyone refer me to a URL or elsewhere for more

[Finale] Finale 2006 Multimeasure Rests

2005-10-27 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi, I have win 2006. When I extract parts, instead of rests I get quarter Note heads in multimesure rests. I already downloaded the update from Coda, but the problem seems to stay. Any hints? Kurt ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 Multimeasure Rests

2005-10-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:21 PM 10/27/2005, Kurt Gnos wrote: I have win 2006. When I extract parts, instead of rests I get quarter Note heads in multimesure rests. I already downloaded the update from Coda, but the problem seems to stay. I'm not sure what those updated default files were meant to fix, but of

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 Multimeasure Rests

2005-10-27 Thread Hans Arktoft
Aaron, if you enter a zero (or no digit at all for that matter) before clicking Select, the Shape Selection dialog will open. Regards, Hans -- (Incidentally, does anyone know why this button is labeled 'Select'? It doesn't really let you select anything -- it just lets you edit

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 Multimeasure Rests

2005-10-27 Thread Kurt Gnos
Aaron, Hans, many thanks. the fix only works for new documents, but you have to do it manually in older ones on the older files, but so it's no problem! Thanks for the quick answers Kurt At 20:56 27.10.2005, you wrote: At 02:21 PM 10/27/2005, Kurt Gnos wrote: I have win 2006. When I

[Finale] FW: Finale 2006 refund request.

2005-10-19 Thread Javier Ruiz
If some is interested this what I sent to Makemusic. Please forgive my convoluted English. -- Forwarded Message From: Javier Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:44:37 +0100 To: Finale Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Finale 2006 refund request. Makemusic Inc. Finale [ref

Re: [Finale] FW: Finale 2006 refund request.

2005-10-19 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Javier Ruiz / 2005/10/19 / 06:49 AM wrote: By this time, you are probably aware of the problem: Finale 2006 is completely unusable for professional use. snip Let's make things clear: this is not another bug, it is a failure in the basic set of features of any program. It is simply unacceptable

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 DVD Version/Mac Installation Problems

2005-09-22 Thread Neal Gittleman
Darcy: I couldn't find the Finale pre-installer either but here are the instructions on how to do it manually: Thanks, Darcy. If anyone's interested in finding the pre-installer, a Google search turned up a MakeMusic discussion forum that had this (still live) link

[Finale] Finale 2006 DVD Version/Mac Installation Problems

2005-09-21 Thread Neal Gittleman
Greetings... Being a habitual late adopter, I just received my Finale 2006 packet (perhaps not quite as habitually late as usual...) What I received is Finale 2006 for Windows® and Macintosh® DVD Version. My question, before I insert anything into anything, is: Does this DVD installer

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 DVD Version/Mac Installation Problems

2005-09-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
I couldn't find the Finale pre-installer either but here are the instructions on how to do it manually: IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU INSTALL FINALE 2006 FOR MACINTOSH! Dear Finale Macintosh User, Due to a problem in the Finale installer, IMPORTANT USER FILES MAY BE DELETED

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 DVD Version/Mac Installation Problems

2005-09-21 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:42 PM 09/21/2005, Neal Gittleman wrote: Being a habitual late adopter, I just received my Finale 2006 packet (perhaps not quite as habitually late as usual...) What I received is Finale 2006 for Windows® and Macintosh® DVD Version. My question, before I insert anything into anything

[Finale] Help! I can't get SmartMusic sounds to play in Finale 2006!

2005-09-11 Thread Brian Williams
Dear Finale List, Although SmartMusic SoftSynth Playback works great in Finale 2005 for me, I can't get it to work in Finale 2006. I am using an identical template to what works in Fin 2K5. I have made sure that I have the latest version of the synthgms.sf2 file in my Components folder, and all

Re: Bach temperament, was: Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-09-03 Thread David W. Fenton
On 2 Sep 2005 at 0:19, John Howell wrote: At 6:34 PM +0200 9/1/05, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 18:07 Uhr Brad Beyenhof wrote: Life would be so much easier if only (3/2)12=(2/1)7. Have you heard about the recently discovered Bach tuning, which is hidden on the title page of the

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 still not Unicode

2005-09-02 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Michael Good / 2005/09/01 / 10:06 PM wrote: Finale 2006 is still not Unicode, but it is *not* limited to the Western European characters in Cp1252 / MacRoman. Finale supports many different scripts, including double-byte characters for Japanese and other languages. Well, Title, Composer

[Finale] [Mac] Don ´ t move the Finale 2006 folder

2005-09-02 Thread Nomos Alpha
Dear folks, In Mac, if you move the Finale 2006 folder to another location different to the Applications one, it looses the Finale GPO feature. But if you move both, it crashes miserably! So don´t put those apps in a subfolder like I did... Off to the beach ;) Javier Ruiz

Re: Bach temperament, was: Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-09-02 Thread John Howell
At 6:34 PM +0200 9/1/05, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 18:07 Uhr Brad Beyenhof wrote: Life would be so much easier if only (3/2)12=(2/1)7. Have you heard about the recently discovered Bach tuning, which is hidden on the title page of the well-tempered manuscript? This has been much

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-09-01 Thread Karen
Hi Brad, Are you running any Haxies...anything that uses the APE manager (Application Enhancer per Unsanity??) These can cause many problems. I took them all off of my machine. I run Quicksilver with no problems so I don't think that is the cause. Just a thought... -Karen I

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 still not Unicode

2005-09-01 Thread Phil Daley
At 8/31/2005 01:45 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Really? (Finale has got to be one of the last hold-outs [in an increasingly small group of non-internationalized software producers].) Is Finale limited to western European languages, then? (ISO-8859-1/ISO-8859-15 or Win-1252 encodings?) Yup, CP1252

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-09-01 Thread Gerald Berg
This is a 'standard' MAC fix on GPO too. Dump the reverb entirely and recieive no clicks -- quite a deal. Jerry On 31-Aug-05, at 5:01 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Hmm, I would have thought that moving the Qualtiy CPU way down, would have exacerbated the clicks, etc, rather than improving

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-09-01 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On 8/31/05, Karen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you running any Haxies...anything that uses the APE manager (Application Enhancer per Unsanity??) These can cause many problems. I took them all off of my machine. I run Quicksilver with no problems so I don't think that is the cause. I do

Bach temperament, was: Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-09-01 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 18:07 Uhr Brad Beyenhof wrote: Life would be so much easier if only (3/2)12=(2/1)7. Have you heard about the recently discovered Bach tuning, which is hidden on the title page of the well-tempered manuscript? No... do you have a reference (preferably online) where I can read about

Re: Bach temperament, was: Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-09-01 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On 9/1/05, Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18:07 Uhr Brad Beyenhof wrote: Life would be so much easier if only (3/2)^12=(2/1)^7. Have you heard about the recently discovered Bach tuning, which is hidden on the title page of the well-tempered manuscript? No... do you have a

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-09-01 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
I'll give it a try. Dean On Sep 1, 2005, at 6:18 AM, Gerald Berg wrote: This is a 'standard' MAC fix on GPO too. Dump the reverb entirely and recieive no clicks -- quite a deal. Jerry On 31-Aug-05, at 5:01 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Hmm, I would have thought that moving the Qualtiy

Re: Bach temperament, was: Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-09-01 Thread David W. Fenton
On 1 Sep 2005 at 18:34, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 18:07 Uhr Brad Beyenhof wrote: Life would be so much easier if only (3/2)12=(2/1)7. Have you heard about the recently discovered Bach tuning, which is hidden on the title page of the well-tempered manuscript? No... do you have a

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-09-01 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 18:21 Uhr dc wrote: It is only one of numerous Bach tunings! And most specialists in the field of temperament and tuning simply didn't buy it... No-one has even started to prove that the squiggle in question is in Bach's hand (no research has been done on the original). And then, there are

Re: Bach temperament, was: Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-09-01 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 23:03 Uhr David W. Fenton wrote: It's clearly not real scholarship, because real scholars don't make claims like: [snip] David, I don't doubt you are right, yet that doesn't actually say anything about the findings, it just says something about the scholar. His methods may be

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-09-01 Thread David W. Fenton
On 1 Sep 2005 at 23:17, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 18:21 Uhr dc wrote: It is only one of numerous Bach tunings! And most specialists in the field of temperament and tuning simply didn't buy it... No-one has even started to prove that the squiggle in question is in Bach's hand (no

Re: Bach temperament, was: Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-09-01 Thread David W. Fenton
On 1 Sep 2005 at 23:43, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 23:03 Uhr David W. Fenton wrote: It's clearly not real scholarship, because real scholars don't make claims like: [snip] David, I don't doubt you are right, yet that doesn't actually say anything about the findings, it just says

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-09-01 Thread Karen
Hi Brad, I'd bet that APE is causing the symptoms you were describing. I was also using ClearDock and had to remove it. So, get rid of Clear Dock and the APE manager all together and see if things get better. Here is an alternative you can try$8.00 Sharware/Donationware. I

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-09-01 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On 9/1/05, I wrote: On 8/31/05, Karen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you running any Haxies...anything that uses the APE manager (Application Enhancer per Unsanity??) These can cause many problems. I took them all off of my machine. I run Quicksilver with no problems so I don't think that

[Finale] Finale 2006 still not Unicode

2005-09-01 Thread Michael Good
Finale 2006 is still not Unicode, but it is *not* limited to the Western European characters in Cp1252 / MacRoman. Finale supports many different scripts, including double-byte characters for Japanese and other languages. We've been busy collecting examples of different languages for our XML

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 2:54 Uhr Eric Dussault wrote: I you don't need eps (there broken until MM fixes it, but it's unlikely you will need it if you were on Win XP)) and have a powerful Mac will at least 1 GB of ram if you need GPO, then it may be ok to work with the mac version. What is the exacty problem

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Performance drop maybe, but only if you are using GPO, as far as I can see. I am not using it, and I am fine. Johannes Eric Dannewitz schrieb: Powerful as in a dual G5? Yeah. For those who were using 2005 with a G4, and getting stuff done, switching to 2006 results in a huge performance

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread Eric Dussault
see this thread: http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=6m=125732 I've posted on this list a similar topic, but only Simon Troup and Harold Howen have responded. Éric Dussault Le 05-08-31 à 03:24, Johannes Gebauer a écrit : On 2:54 Uhr Eric Dussault wrote: I you don't need eps (there

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Am I correct that only dotted slurs and similar smart shapes are affected by this bug? I am not trying to make it look less serious, it is serious, but I am trying to work out whether it will be a problem for me... Johannes Eric Dussault schrieb: see this thread:

[Finale] Finale 2006 still not Unicode

2005-08-31 Thread Nomos Alpha
Dear all, Finale 2006 is still not Unicode compliant. Saludos, Javier. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 still not Unicode

2005-08-31 Thread Morris Inouye
On 8/31/05, Nomos Alpha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all,Finale 2006 is still not Unicode compliant. Really? (Finale has got to be one of the last hold-outs [in an increasingly small group of non-internationalized software producers].) Is Finale limited to western European languages, then? (ISO

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On 8/30/05, I wrote: My problems with 2k6 occur even when no GPO instruments are loaded, though. I've got a memory usage meter (CompactMemory in Konfabulator), and I can't remember it ever going above 60% or so, even when the lag is worst. I'll check again tomorrow when I'm in the office,

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread Harold Owen
Regarding FinMac2k6: I'm on a Mac G4, 800 Mhz, with 1 Gig. RAM. When I'm working on a large score with many instruments, I select SoftSynth in the MIDI Window to begin with. It's good enough for editing, and it doesn't slow down operations. Then when everything else is done I switch to GPO

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 still not Unicode

2005-08-31 Thread Nomos Alpha
, Finale 2006 is still not Unicode compliant. Really? (Finale has got to be one of the last hold-outs [in an increasingly small group of non-internationalized software producers].) Is Finale limited to western European languages, then? (ISO-8859-1/ISO-8859-15 or Win-1252 encodings?) Just

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 still not Unicode

2005-08-31 Thread Phil Daley
play well with other Unicode apps. At 8/31/2005 11:54 AM, Morris Inouye wrote: On 8/31/05, Nomos Alpha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, Finale 2006 is still not Unicode compliant. Really? (Finale has got to be one of the last hold-outs [in an increasingly small group of non-internationalized

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 17:43 Uhr Morris Inouye wrote: Although many indicate that it is trustable, there are enough problems that I think I will probably give Sibelius a try (and maybe install the 2006 upgrade on my WinXP box). I see no reason why you shouldn't install Fin2k6 on your Mac and try it out for

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 18:17 Uhr Brad Beyenhof wrote: In a blank document it's not too bad (1/4 to 1/2 second), but in a medium-sized concert band score it's up to a second of delay with *every* action. Any more suggestions? Has anybody hit this sort of lag in Tiger? Has anybody *not* hit this sort of lag in

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 19:08 Uhr Eric Dannewitz wrote: I have no clue what it is. I have GPO installed, but generally none of the scores/sheets are using it. Finale will crash randomly after a while, when I go to print something. I assume you have done all the usual maintenance, like checking permissions?

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 still not Unicode

2005-08-31 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Morris Inouye / 2005/08/31 / 11:54 AM wrote: Really? (Finale has got to be one of the last hold-outs [in an increasingly small group of non-internationalized software producers].) Is Finale limited to western European languages, then? (ISO-8859-1/ISO-8859-15 or Win-1252 encodings?) Yup,

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread David W. Fenton
On 31 Aug 2005 at 19:59, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Compared to 2k5 and any XP version you might like the anti-aliased screen display on the Mac. Imo a real advantage of the Mac version over the Win version. ??? The music on my screen is anti-aliased, because I have anti-aliasing turned on in

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 20:41 Uhr David W. Fenton wrote: The music on my screen is anti-aliased, because I have anti-aliasing turned on in the OS. The only reason that I can see that Finale wouldn't anti-alias is if you haven't turned on Windows font smoothing (as they call it). Or are you saying that Finale does

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread David W. Fenton
than QuickDraw or Windows ClearType. . . . Windows ClearType is not the only anti-aliasing that Windows offers. It is, in fact, designed for LCD monitors (i.e., with square pixels), though it seems to improve anti-aliasing for some non-LCD monitors. . . . Finale 2006 is the first version

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread David W. Fenton
On 31 Aug 2005 at 21:01, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 20:41 Uhr David W. Fenton wrote: The music on my screen is anti-aliased, because I have anti-aliasing turned on in the OS. The only reason that I can see that Finale wouldn't anti-alias is if you haven't turned on Windows font smoothing

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 21:16 Uhr David W. Fenton wrote: Well, it would depend on how that's done. I'd think you would want those kinds of lines to always be at least 1 onscreen pixel, so I'd think anti-aliasing wouldn't really help much. I posted last week about Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 vs. 7, and the difference

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 31 Aug 2005, at 3:16 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Well, it would depend on how that's done. I'd think you would want those kinds of lines to always be at least 1 onscreen pixel, so I'd think anti-aliasing wouldn't really help much. Quartz uses shaded pixels to create the illusion of line

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 31 Aug 2005, at 3:13 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Of course, if it vastly improves the anti-aliasing of small font sizes, that might make it more compelling as a feature, since Finale is the kind of program where it's useful to see a lot on the screen at once (i.e., smaller magnification).

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Hmm, I would have thought that moving the Qualtiy CPU way down, would have exacerbated the clicks, etc, rather than improving them. I'll have to try that. By absolutely dry, do you mean to set the room size to zero? Dean On Aug 31, 2005, at 9:07 AM, Harold Owen wrote: Regarding

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread Darcy James Argue
Just uncheck the Ambience reverb button to disable it. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 31 Aug 2005, at 5:01 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Hmm, I would have thought that moving the Qualtiy CPU way down, would have exacerbated the clicks, etc, rather than improving them.

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-31 Thread Eric Dussault
Le 05-08-31 à 07:08, Johannes Gebauer a écrit : Am I correct that only dotted slurs and similar smart shapes are affected by this bug? I am not trying to make it look less serious, it is serious, but I am trying to work out whether it will be a problem for me... Johannes For the

[Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-30 Thread Morris Inouye
I've been using Finale on Windows for a decade or so (purchasing each yearly upgrade). My 2006 upgrade came a month or so ago, but I haven't had a chance to install it on Windows/XP yet. Yesterday I received a brand new Mac with OS X Tiger, and am wondering if I dare install Finale 2006 on it? Do

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-30 Thread Carolyn Bremer
or so (purchasing each yearly upgrade). My 2006 upgrade came a month or so ago, but I haven't had a chance to install it on Windows/XP yet. Yesterday I received a brand new Mac with OS X Tiger, and am wondering if I dare install Finale 2006 on it? Do I need to get an update from makemusic.com

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-30 Thread Chuck Israels
dare install Finale 2006 on it? Do I need to get an update from makemusic.com first? Just wondering ... (P.S. as an alternative--if Finale's install is still unstable--I'm thinking of purchasing Sibelius 4. (Shame on me!!)) Morris___Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-30 Thread Darcy James Argue
haven't had a chance to install it on Windows/XP yet. Yesterday I received a brand new Mac with OS X Tiger, and am wondering if I dare install Finale 2006 on it? Do I need to get an update from makemusic.com first? Just wondering ... (P.S. as an alternative--if Finale's install is still unstable--I'm

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-30 Thread Chuck Israels
. Yesterday I received a brand new Mac with OS X Tiger, and am wondering if I dare install Finale 2006 on it? Do I need to get an update from makemusic.com first? Just wondering ... (P.S. as an alternative--if Finale's install is still unstable--I'm thinking of purchasing Sibelius 4. (Shame on me

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-30 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Finale 2006 crashes a LOT for me under Tiger. While printing. Totally recommend you wait until there is a patch or something Morris Inouye wrote: I've been using Finale on Windows for a decade or so (purchasing each yearly upgrade). My 2006 upgrade came a month or so ago, but I

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-30 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On 8/30/05, Eric Dannewitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finale 2006 crashes a LOT for me under Tiger. While printing. Totally recommend you wait until there is a patch or something I've had major problems with the slow-as-molasses interface using FinMac2k6 under Panther (1GHz-G4/1.25GB-DDR

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-30 Thread Darcy James Argue
Brad: Delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.makemusic.finale.plist. Doesn't affect your actual prefs, but may help with the Mass Edit tool selection lag. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 30 Aug 2005, at 10:44 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: For me, 2k6 has unbearable lag when

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-30 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On 8/30/05, Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Aug 2005, at 10:44 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: For me, 2k6 has unbearable lag when dragging elements (they don't actually move onscreen until I've held the mouse button down for a second or so) and when changing selection areas (even

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-30 Thread Darcy James Argue
Another thing: Mac OS X becomes *very* slow when it gets low on physical memory, so if you have many GPO instruments loaded, Finale performance -- as well as performance in any other currently open OS X app -- tanks. On large orchestral scores with many GPO instruments loaded, I sometimes

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 trustable for Mac yet?

2005-08-30 Thread Eric Dussault
: Yesterday I received a brand new Mac with OS X Tiger, and am wondering if I dare install Finale 2006 on it? Do I need to get an update from makemusic.com first? Just wondering ... ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu

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