Finale Forum

The printing dialog box with the check list used to come up before I updated to the most recent version. Note that the checklist for parts no longer appears BEFORE the print dialog, but is now included within the print dialog itself. f the print dialog shows very little, you need to click on the sm...

It's almost certainly one of the many and manifold HyperScribe and Quantization settings, but without checking the document to see how its configured, it's hard to tell. However, the general advice for people using HyperScribe is "Don't". :D I can be much faster and more accurate using Simple Entry,...

Try "Change Instrument" for all the measures of the staff to Soprano, or whatever. Alternatively, if you can't see an instrument change in Score Manager, it might conceivably be a MIDI instruction. Select the whole document. Then, under Edit > Clear Selected Data, select "None", then Check "MIDI Dat...

You should be able to see al instrument changes in the Score Manager, if you click the little triangle by the side of the Staff Name. That will pull down a list which will include instrument changes.

You can specify a different position for Linked Parts from that used in the Score. Just set the Vertical position to a negative number.

1. Make a PDF from the print menu "Save As PDF". 2. Have a look at the PDF in Preview or Acrobat: zoom in massively. Is everything nice and clean/crisp, or does the problem appear there, too? 3. Print from the PDF. If the PDF looks ok on screen but prints poorly, then the problem is with your print ...

As Peter points out, there's no point in doing this in Scroll View, as you need to do aligning and laying out in Page View.

Finale's document window can display Rulers at the edges. You can also set a Grid to appear at regular intervals.

There is a preference in Document Options > Barlines to automatically add double bars after key changes. If you turn that off, it shouldn't matter.

I don't want to have to go through all the other parts, and move that same text block off the page. There is a much easier way. You may consider it a "workaround", but there's always going to be some work in order to tell the app exactly what you want. 1. Create the Text block in the part you want....

From your description it is my guess that you at some point copy/pasted music with lyrics. When you do so, Finale displays the same lyrics in both places. That's not correct. If you copy and paste music with lyrics, Finale creates new lyrics for the duplication. Changes to the original lyrics do no...

Have you got a final bar at the start of the repeat?

If you're tying notes of equal value, just enter the total note duration as one note: for tied quarter notes, just enter a half note.

I'll admit that I never use percussion, and that the recent changes do seem to have generated some heated debate amongst those who use it. But that is a separate argument from issues of program stability, file corruption and playback bugs. From the changes made to Finale since 2008, it is clear that...

For every hard luck story of trouble with Finale, there's at least one story (and probably several more) that isn't posted about Finale working satisfactorily. No one feels a sudden urge to start writing letters when Finale works as intended. I have been using Finale since the mid 1990s, and have ve...

The problem is because your printer has a "print area", which is smaller than the sheet of paper. When you use the print driver or Acrobat to print a booklet, the print is reduced slightly to fit the whole page onto the print area. You don't say what OS you are using. What I do is to print all my Fi...

I find it aesthetically unpleasing to break up the flow of the music from one page to the next (not to mention the room lost to the staff names). How big are your margins, and how much are you adjusting them for the names? Using the abbreviated names should not cause you to adjust the margins at al...

1. The Acrobat PDF print queue no longer works in Snow Leopard. Read the Adobe help article on this. 2. You can't drop a Finale file on Distiller. 3. Does the document appear correct on the screen? Does it print to a printer ok? 4. Does "Save As PDF" in the print menu work? 5. Is this for all files,...