Mac specific convo: I've been using the virtual PDF printer "PDFwriter" by Lisanet ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfwriterformac/ ) for some time with great results. It's been particularly useful when dropping multiple (sometimes huge amounts of) finale files directly onto the PDFwriter printer icon in the dock - it happily chugs through the queue at a great rate, producing PDFs that have been through all my systems and also that of the commercial printers for hundreds of books.
I've noticed a difference however, between what is produced by Finale 2014.5 and the latest version of FInale (v25). [1] In Finale 2014.5, the PDFs are produced correctly. > Pages are setup in *Page Layout > Page Size* to A4 > System default paper size is set to A4 in system prefs (if this even matters) [2] In FInale v25 the PDFs produced by PDFwriter look like they've been printed to a longer page format. I still get a multipage PDF that looks valid, but the page layout is incorrect. See image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/goi2tnes52hkvuw/Finalev25PDFwriterError.jpg?dl=0 Note how the page ends midway through the bottom staff, and that the left and right margins are uneven. I've put together some workarounds such as *Graphics > Export Pages* and also *File > Print...* using various combinations of finalescript and Quickeys, but neither are fast in comparison, and are prone to asking whether something should be replaced if it already exists, which PDFwrite gets around by adding a job number prefix (not everyone will like that, I understand). I see that the following is present in Finale 2014.5 but not Finale v25, maybe this has something to do with it: *Finale Preferences > Save & Print > Use Finale's Page Orientation Instead Of The Printer's Page Orientation* Curiously, if I print directly from Finale using *File > Print*, and select the PDFwriter driver and "default settings" it works fine. I'm somewhat out of ideas where to go from here, having explored every avenue I can think of for the moment. Does anyone have any insight into why this is the case, and perhaps how to work around it? Kind regards, Simon Troup. -- Simon Troup | BA Hons (Mus) http://www.digitalmusicart.com Partners: Simon Troup & Jennie Troup VAT Registration: 982 4230 17 *"If you can twang it, we can engrave it. Seriously, we can. No... really!"* *This email is a private communication between the sender and the intended recipient. If you received this email in error be advised that all content, information and files contained in the message remain copyright of the author, artist or original copyright holder and may not be used without permission.* _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
