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It's not invoking the FinaleScript batch export feature, but it is doing something similar. You have to have a Finale file open to export it, so yes, there will be a lot of Finale files opened during the process in large folders. Each file should close after its export finishes.

I have also replied in the Finale community forum with an update on this issue. The metronome enclosure problem is alas an oversight in the MusicXML definition, so it will need to be added to a future version of the MusicXML format. I have added an issue for this at https://github.com/w3c/musicxml/i...

Thank you so much for your patience on this. I think we have figured out the problem. MusicXML batch export was relying on the presence of short 8.3 file names on Windows to search for all the .mus and .musx files together in a folder. However, some newer PCs don't use short 8.3 file names, so this ...

It works on most systems but not on others, and it's unclear what causes the difference. It seems unlikely it has to do with FinaleScript setting, but we'll see. It appears to be a Windows-only issue. We used to use .xml for the MusicXML file extension, but that got confusing with so many different ...

I'm glad you found that the script works, and apologize for the inconvenience. This still seems really strange though and would be good to identify and fix. When you used the script, did you set the destination folder to something different than the source folder? In the menu item those are the same...

Thanks for this information! I've been in touch with support to see if we can figure out what is going on here and get this fixed.

What do you mean by "doesn't work anymore"? It should be working fine. If you don't have any Finale files in the selected folder, it just does nothing rather than giving you a message. And it won't work if your 30-day trial has expired. If those aren't the issues, it may be best to contact Finale su...

Could you please message me with a copy of the MusicXML file? Thanks!

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Thu Jan 13, 2022 1:50 pm

Ah: that's super interesting. Thanks Michael. I stand corrected!

If Barnes & Noble doesn't support SVG fonts, your suggestion to embed the .otf fonts seems worth trying. But that would require updating to Finale v27 and converting the file to use a SMuFL music font.

Finale's EPUBs are fixed-layout EPUBs where nearly all the content is in SVG. So Finale embeds the fonts using SVG fonts. Readers like Apple Books support SVG fonts in EPUB, but it looks like Calibre does not. Does the Barnes and Noble reader support SVG fonts? If so, is there another reader that yo...

Sorry I didn't see this earlier. But for those having a similar problem in the future: In order to install the Dolet for Sibelius plug-in on Mac, you need to have the plug-in folders for a local version of your plug-in present. If you don't have that, you need to create them. Perhaps an easier way t...

MusicXML in Finale alas does not yet import bends, though it does export them. Hopefully this gets fixed in a future release.

… Quoting Michael Good (who created PDFtoMusic Pro): To clarify, I did not create PDFtoMusic Pro. That is the work of Didier and Olivier Guillion and their colleagues at Myriad. My company did resell PDFtoMusic Pro back in the previous decade. Note that those comparisons were to SmartScore X, not t...

If the folder has both a .mus and a .musx folder with the same name, it will only produce one output file. Aside from that, it is probably easiest to diagnose this if you open a support case on our site and attach a folder of files that demonstrates the problem. Is this on Mac or Windows? Which vers...

MusicXML batch export converts both .mus and .musx files. The Dolet plug-in won't do this in Finale 2012 or earlier since those versions cannot read .musx files, but it should work with Dolet in Finale 2014 and the built-in MusicXML export in Finale v25.

I was an outside developer when I started working on the Dolet MusicXML plug-in at Recordare in 2000. I didn't join MakeMusic until November 2011.

Michael Good
VP of MusicXML Technologies
MakeMusic, Inc.

There are several MusicXML to Braille converters, so you can export Finale to MusicXML and then convert the MusicXML to Braille. Go to http://www.musicxml.com/software/ and search for Braille. I have no first-hand experience with any of them, so I cannot recommend any software in particular.

I'm back here for the first time in a few years. I had to reactivate my account since it was associated with an old Recordare email address.

Michael Good

Finale 2011 can still open ETF files. If you can't do this in PrintMusic 2010, perhaps that's a PrintMusic restriction? Are you trying to open the file by going to the File menu, choosing Open, and then choosing the ETF option for file types? If the ETF option for Enigma Transportable Files isn't th...

The font issue may well be the problem. In general using MusicXML should move the Russian over from Windows to Mac and vice versa. MusicXML files are text files, so you can edit them in a normal text editor. Open it up and look for font names (searching for font-family should help) and substitute yo...