Finale Forum

I have posted this wherever I could think today since it's handcuffing me big time. I'm setting up a new MacBook Pro 16" that came with macOS Catalina. I installed Finale 26, not 25, and copied over all of the plugins I use: Patterson, TGTools, and JW plugins. Upon opening a file for editing, I get ...

First the request: This is a big one to me, but perhaps not to others, depending on your workflow. Long ago, the developers saw fit to remove the Cancel button from the 'Two Many Beats in a Measure' dialog. PLEASE, REINSTATE IT!!! This has been a long standing pet peeve of mine because without that ...

Actually, now that I think about it, I fail to see how creating a library of default fonts would help with existing Finale files in any way. It won't address the issue at hand.

So you haven't had any issues with Adobe Garamond Semibold? That's the font in question. And it is a Type 1 font on my system. I know of all of the ways to change fonts and font sizes. My original query was how to change font size via FinaleScript. That's the rub. I am looking to automate as much of...

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Alas… no help

Thanks miker. I am aware of that method. Let me clarify more as to what I am trying to do: When I open an old file in Finale 25, the default font for text expressions is Time New Roman. Long ago I started using Adobe Garamond instead and one of the typesfaces in that font tends to 'disagree' with Fi...

The alt "i" syntax does nothing. Looks like a Windows command and I'm on a Mac. This didn't work and I tried a couple of variations that were also no go.

But thanks for the directive. Might be getting a tad closer.

I have 1000s of old teaching files that have one font that Finale just doesn't like. So I had been going thru them on an as-needed-basis, changing out a few font settings to bring the files up to date. After doing several the hard way, I turned to FinaleScript to automate things; which is working mu...