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I'm curious on your worflow for editing parts. I've got a multi-movement work divided in 18 finale files, for stability and safety. For the full score, everything works great, since there aren't any overlaps between pages. For the parts, I've never found a perfect way to solve this. There are number...

I don't think it's a "template," per se (rather a canned choice in the page format dialog), but it sure looks like it's wrong. Can you perhaps reduce everything to 97% of original? Unfortunately I have specific requirements on space, point size, thickness and margins I need to keep. Besides, it's n...

Please tell me I'm not being stupid. I just spent who-knows-how-many hours engraving a 170 page piece. The size I chose was B4. When I imported to the document to InDesign for further editing, the page was too large for the file. Puzzled, I checked the page size window in finale and saw this: 257,5m...

It's worth noting as well that in other files which already had the font as its default Font everything is working fine:
It appears in the dialog box. But not on new projects:

It does not! That was the first place I checked.

Hello friends! I use a font by Wess Karaatanassov called VintageECP1. I've been using it for a while, no problem at all. All of a sudden, I was building a new template and I can't find it in the font dialog box. It appears just fine in the dropdown on the expression dialog box: Screenshot 2023-01-12...

Thanks for the reply!

I've tried that, but the issue is that the measures with only one rest get the range as well.


I'd like the range to appear only on multi-measure rests with more than two bars, is there a way?

Hello all!

Is there any practical way to show the measure range ONLY on the multi-measure rests like so?
I've made the one bar "multimeasure" like this:
Finale v26:

Hello all! I have a huge project with many expression categories. What are these "phantom" categories in my expression selection dialog box? I can't delete them in Edit Categories but they persist, and if I click on Edit Categories whilst one of them is selected the whole software crashes. I created...

A question to strablonsky: Have you selected Display Actual Measure Numbers? The thing is that if you haven't, it might happen that Finale mistakes a measure for another, so problems in an earlier measure might 'spill over' into the one you are seeing. Yes! I know Finale gets finicky if it isn't ch...

So I would love to know under which conditions this issue arises, because I have also experienced it. I've already pointed out one condition: the use of independent time signatures on different staves. The other one I know of is with overfilled measures as when you have applied Patterson's 'beam ov...

Hey Wess! Nice seeing you here
The measure is already filled with hidden rests though!
Your friend, Piero.

Anders, those aren't actual independent barlines, they're faked with expressions, so the measures are untouched! It's actually only one measure of 4/4, spaced like that with hidden rests. So there's not even any manual tweaking besides the hidden rests and clever rebeaming to fake displaced notes. H...

@motet Unfortunately, the problem persists regardless of where the anchor point is. There are also no independent time signatures or staff styles. I tried using the staff above as a workaround and it did work. It's frustrating because it still doesn't solve the problem for part preparation, and any ...

When I apply custom lines, if I zoom out, try to reposition them or basically do anything they jump around unpredictably. I tried using Patterson Shape editor Plug-ins, doing it in Page View, Scroll view, resizing, opening a new file, everything I could think of. It's not always that this happens, b...

Hello all!

I would like to show the instrument names and brackets for each of these measures:
I know I can fake this with expressions or do it in a vector program, but I was wondering if there was an easier, native solution to this?

Thanks!

Measure Attributes will let you choose to Not Display in that measure. Yes, however I still want two cautionary time signatures. I've solved it in a roundabout way: I created a 5-staff line expression, and programmed it to position itself automatically in every staff. I also created a time signatur...

Screen Shot 2022-04-06 at 16.22.36 Small.jpeg Hello all! For house style reasons, I'm using these two big time signatures. On the next system, the horn will have a time signature as well, but when I turn it on there's this third cautionary time signature that appears. Can I hide only one of the cau...