Finale Forum

I am new to Wine and having a problem loading the second CD when installing software. I am installing Finale 2008 (music software) Wine? So you're installing the Windows version of Finale 2008 onto Linux? Your signature says you have Finale 2014. Any reason you're not installing that? FWIW, my copy...

It's worth saying that "iCloud is not a backup". It doesn't do versioning; and you can only recover deleted files for 30 days. You can't recover overwritten files, for example.

Regarding Dorico, I've heard good things about it and how it integrates better with Cubase compared to Finale, but I haven't tried it. There's no specific integration between Dorico and Cubase yet. You can drag MIDI directly from Cubase into Dorico (or from any other app that supports dragging). An...

Batdad wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:34 am

From my understanding, a friend of his gave him a copy of the program so I'm not sure if this was ever obtained legitimately, so to speak. I wonder if we could upgrade for the $99.

You won't get an upgrade deal from a "copy that's not yours", so to speak.

I have an M2 MacMini 16/256 with a 1tb external drive on which resides all my Finale files using Symlink to access the files. Where do the symlinks link to? And why? What I was wondering is there an auto feature or software so at the end of the day any changes I make to my finale charts can be auto...

Can you post the XML? Perhaps there's something in it that will explain it. At least open it up in a text editor and search for "121".

I'm curious - who actually owns this forum? Is the cost of web hosting and database management covered entirely by the ads?

Are the page sizes different?

I get something like this:

PianoWizard wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:20 pm

Any idea where I am not succeeding with this? Thanks for any help.

Did you set "Shell" and "Pass input" drop-downs as in the image? Try putting this (unzipped) in ~/Library/Services

this bottom-alignment seems like something someone at MakeMusic made up. Or maybe it was the SMuFL folks at Dorico. I've always thought that aligning the line to the top of the characters (and to the bottom for bassa) looks much better than some random mid-point. Screenshot 7.png Screenshot 6.png I...

I am not familiar with using Python but I will see if I can suss out how to run that script on my Mac. Seems like that would be easy to automate. Seems like this script would be one click for any number of pages. Thanks for the redirect for these scripts. The whole point of my suite of scripts was ...

PianoWizard wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:32 pm

BUON: Thanks for sharing the script. Is there a Python script that allows for using an image as the PDF background by chance?

There is a script there called 'watermarkPDF.py', which puts one background PDF image under the existing page.

wessmusic wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:27 am

7. Again in Photoshop, each individual page of the PDF is imported.

Doesn't this mean that the notation is now bitmapped? Obviously, the image is a bitmap, but it would be better to keep the music as vector.
You could add the image as a background object in Illustrator.

heinzfan wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:54 am

One possible problem: Finale can only use 32 bit samples. If you downloaded 64 bit plug-ins see if 32 bit are available.

On the Mac, Finale uses 64-bit audio plug-ins.

No; but there are ways to add a tinted background to a PDF. Some PDF editors will do this (e.g. Adobe Acrobat, Master PDF Editor). As you're on a Mac, I've written a short python script that will add a tint panel to a PDF, which, you can put in an Automator Quick Action or a Shortcut.app workflow. (...

I'm not aware of any easy solutions, having spent over 10 years trying to do this sort of thing routinely in Finale. Either you have to create a combined separate document for the parts, (with the risk of inconsistencies from the score); or just waste loads of paper. Or possibly do actual old-fashio...

I checked all the templates for my own copy of Finale v27.4.1.146 - that is, I opened each template, went to the File Info chiclet, and looked at the field for “Score Name’ Insert. No sign of ‘a piacere’ anywhere. I found it in a new document based on the Choral (Finale Maestro) template. Screensho...

No. I don't even know if the plug-in framework would be able to provide that functionality.

MIDI Editing is just one area where Finale's tools have not been updated in decades, while other apps have implemented powerful useful functions.

motet wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:20 pm

I'll second Peter--"uniti"

I've never seen that (in music)!

So, what I'm hearing is that I should probably just update Finale, which means I will need to deal with that [“Finale (Autoupdate).app” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.] message. That is certainly not a consequence of updating Finale. That message sometimes appears i...

Finale takes its paper sizes from the pagesizes.txt file. On a Mac, that's in the USER Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/Finale 27/Configuration Files/ Sure enough, B4 is given as: B4 = 25.75c, 36.4c; 1.27c, 1.27c, 2c, 1.27c, 1.9c (where c is centimetres. You can use all the units that Finale un...

kevinmathie wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 09, 2024 7:18 pm

Thanks for asking customer service! Maybe it is just a left-over from an early version of Finale or something?

Customer Service? Yes, definitely.

Have you considered upgrading your Finale version to 27.4.1? You will get the latest Aria player Mac users get ARIA version 2.039, while Windows users get 1.959 (or possibly 1.961). :roll: This makes it impossible to share custom setups from Mac to Windows, because ARIA won't load the save-state fr...

michelp wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:41 pm

P.S.: The solution that MakeMusic should have implemented....

There were plans to completely overhaul Page Format/Layout, over a decade ago, but they appear to have failed to fruit.

You will find that LOTS has changed, and you'll need to learn all the things that are different. Okay, and maybe a feature I desired is included in the present Finale: the ability to "copy and paste" page layouts for a "certain page" in the score. Of course, you will also find that a considerable a...