How does exporting via .xml "trash" a document? It doesn't. How is this somehow "irresponsible"? It isn't.motet wrote:Please submit this to MM. Telling you to trash your document by running it through MusicXML seems thus irresponsible.
Software gets updated. Things change. That older templates are not going to be fully compatible is part of the process. At least they can be opened.
My Finale 1998 and earlier documents still open. Yes, I get orange stems but they print black. Using Graphics/Export Pages they are black in .pdf files.
There are things to get worked up about with Finale (the movie window comes to mind) but I can't see how this is one of them.