Finale Forum

Anyone know of a way to universally (for a whole score) reset the 'per system' chord baseline (The 'third triangle' in the pic below).

I have a particular style of measure numbers that I want to use for particular client. It's just a combination of font, font size, prefix, suffix, and options about how often to show a region. I've set up a file to use as a template, that I import music XML files into from pieces created by others. ...

OK, so I've got a reasonable Finalescript working method with Export pages > PDF now. I don't like the fact that I can't specify a static output folder (although I can override this with the "Default Folder" app) or that I have to either [a] open all the files (for the process open files choice) or ...

Dropping a stack of finale files onto PDF writer icon on the dock prints the files faster than any other method. I'm talking about dropping 150+ files at a time. Going through the menus for this is tedious, even if macro automated, and I've always found using finalescript for this to be flakey. For ...

"I understand that Adobe and other advanced programs might do more after the fact" - not sure what you mean, and you'd have to be specific. It's quicker. I've never had a problem with the results and have hundreds of books published. bound, printed and distributed via this method. They're totally vi...

It's a 'virtual printer' that doesn't print to paper, it's a software engine that 'prints' to PDF. So you go through the standard 'Print' menus, specify PDF writer as the printer, and it generates PDFs to a folder on your system instead of sending the info to a hardware printer. It's a LOT faster an...

Thanks for your reply Buon. I've worked around the problem now with a combination of... [1] Using Automator to create a service that open the files or folder/multiple-folder contents in Finale. [2] A quickeys shortcut that loops through each of the open files, printing them (including choosing the c...

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...