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by mark carlson
Mon Jan 23, 2023 8:43 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Mac Keyboard Shortcut Question
Replies: 2
Views: 376

Mac Keyboard Shortcut Question

Ever since I upgraded to Finale 27 *and* to Mac OS 13 (which I did at about the same time), a basic shortcut for toggling between files within the same application—command-`—works for me only sporadically, but rarely, within Finale. It used to work all the time, and it still works for me in every ap...
by mark carlson
Mon Dec 19, 2022 11:58 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Trouble Installing 27.3
Replies: 6
Views: 819

Re: Trouble Installing 27.3

motet wrote:
Mon Dec 19, 2022 1:57 am
I would go to the MakeMusic website and download it explicitly.
I don't find the 27.3 update on their website. All I see is the download for v. 27, but not any updates.
by mark carlson
Sun Dec 18, 2022 10:38 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Trouble Installing 27.3
Replies: 6
Views: 819

Trouble Installing 27.3

Every single time I open up Finale, I get a message saying that 27.3 is available and asking if I'd like to download it. So every single time, I click on "Install Update", and then get an alert saying "Finale (Autoupdate).app" is damaged. So I move it to the trash, assuming that has fixed the proble...
by mark carlson
Tue Oct 11, 2022 7:14 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: ScanScore?
Replies: 7
Views: 1287

Re: ScanScore?

miker wrote:
Tue Oct 11, 2022 6:59 pm
And I ask again. Mark, if you send me the score, I’ll be glad to run it and see what the results are.
Well, thanks! How shall I do that, and should I send all three movements, or just try it with one?
by mark carlson
Tue Oct 11, 2022 3:54 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: ScanScore?
Replies: 7
Views: 1287

Re: ScanScore?

Mark, I have no experience with ScanScore but I have lots with SmartScore Pro 64. The more complex your score, full orchestra for instance, the more errors you will get. Big score I guarantee there will be errors! The condition of your original is critical. If it is compromised even a little the mo...
by mark carlson
Mon Oct 10, 2022 8:08 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: ScanScore?
Replies: 7
Views: 1287

ScanScore?

Anyone know if ScanScore is worth a try? I have literally ONE piece I need to scan from PDFs and import into Finale, and I'll not likely use it again. Smart Score is really expensive, too expensive for a one-time thing. ScanScore claims to be able to do complex scores from PDFs, and it now works wit...
by mark carlson
Mon Oct 10, 2022 4:00 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Unwanted extra bracket in repeats
Replies: 5
Views: 580

Re: Unwanted extra bracket in repeats

Indeed the culprit can be found in the Violin group. I suspect some sort of file corruption in this Finale document. To get rid of the unwanted repeat wing, edit the Violin group so that it does not draw barlines Through Staves. Choosing one of the other two options (= Only on Staves - or Only Betw...
by mark carlson
Mon Oct 10, 2022 1:40 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Unwanted extra bracket in repeats
Replies: 5
Views: 580

Re: Unwanted extra bracket in repeats

The option to have the bracket for that group show when there is just one staff is turned off, so I don't think that's what is causing this extra bracket. Deleting the violin group demonstrates that it is what's causing it, though. I agree that if the "show bracket if only one staff" option is chec...
by mark carlson
Sun Oct 09, 2022 10:28 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: importing PDFs into Finale 25, 26, or 27
Replies: 23
Views: 3480

Re: importing PDFs into Finale 25, 26, or 27

Finale 2014 actually has a facility for importing PDFs. As I recall it is pretty limited in what it will scan. Did a 'fairly' good job on single instrument or piano but not much else. Perhaps quartet? I am currently faced with the same issue. I was given PDFs of a piano quartet score (and also sepa...
by mark carlson
Sun Oct 09, 2022 10:08 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Unwanted extra bracket in repeats
Replies: 5
Views: 580

Unwanted extra bracket in repeats

In the attached, measures 2-5 are repeated. Violin 1 has its own little bracket for the repeats, and I can't figure out why. I need to remove it somehow. Violin 1 is part of a "group" when the section divides into two parts, but that only appears much later in the piece. The option to have the brack...
by mark carlson
Mon Oct 03, 2022 7:16 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Some accents won't respond to dragging or nudging, some will
Replies: 15
Views: 1353

Re: Some accents won't respond to dragging or nudging, some will

… I don't understand why, but those two (and maybe more as I continue editing the piece) accents simply won't budge unless I reset it to "manual". And unfortunately that means I will have to manually reset every accent in the piece … You have not considered, in the Articulation Selection making a d...
by mark carlson
Mon Oct 03, 2022 6:47 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Some accents won't respond to dragging or nudging, some will
Replies: 15
Views: 1353

Re: Some accents won't respond to dragging or nudging, some will

… I don't understand why, but those two (and maybe more as I continue editing the piece) accents simply won't budge unless I reset it to "manual". And unfortunately that means I will have to manually reset every accent in the piece … You have not considered, in the Articulation Selection making a d...
by mark carlson
Mon Oct 03, 2022 6:37 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Some accents won't respond to dragging or nudging, some will
Replies: 15
Views: 1353

Re: Some accents won't respond to dragging or nudging, some will

I very rarely have to manually adjust accents, so this surprises me. Defined correctly, they should work in most situations. Finale now moves them out of the way of slurs, too. I don't understand why, but those two (and maybe more as I continue editing the piece) accents simply won't budge unless I...
by mark carlson
Mon Oct 03, 2022 5:51 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Some accents won't respond to dragging or nudging, some will
Replies: 15
Views: 1353

Re: Some accents won't respond to dragging or nudging, some will

I may be a bit late here, since there have already been a lot of suggestions, however ... if I right-click on that accent and go to > Edit Articulation Definition and then in the Articulation Designer > choose Manual for Vertical positioning AND uncheck all Postion options below, I can then move th...
by mark carlson
Mon Oct 03, 2022 5:45 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Some accents won't respond to dragging or nudging, some will
Replies: 15
Views: 1353

Re: Some accents won't respond to dragging or nudging, some will

I may be a bit late here, since there have already been a lot of suggestions, however ... if I right-click on that accent and go to > Edit Articulation Definition and then in the Articulation Designer > choose Manual for Vertical positioning AND uncheck all Postion options below, I can then move th...
by mark carlson
Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:25 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Some accents won't respond to dragging or nudging, some will
Replies: 15
Views: 1353

Re: Some accents won't respond to dragging or nudging, some will

… clear their manual positioning with the Backspace key (perhaps it's a different key on the Mac) … Indeed it is a different key in Mac Finale. 1) In the Mac version, to clear selected articulations’ manual positioning (and thus reset the positioning to Default Positioning), hit the Clear key (on t...
by mark carlson
Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:51 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Some accents won't respond to dragging or nudging, some will
Replies: 15
Views: 1353

Re: Some accents won't respond to dragging or nudging, some will

If you attach your file I'll take a look. I still think it's attached to some note far away. I did attach the file with my first post on this. Is it not accessible? A clue: if I delete the slur that begins on that note, the accents moves to its appropriate place. But obviously, I need the slur. I'v...
by mark carlson
Mon Oct 03, 2022 2:07 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Some accents won't respond to dragging or nudging, some will
Replies: 15
Views: 1353

Re: Some accents won't respond to dragging or nudging, some will

I might be applied to the wrong place or to the wrong layer. Select it's handle and press backspace--which will clear manual positioning--and see what happens. Thank you. I tried that, and it just deleted the accent. I was optimistic that re-entering it would do the trick, but unfortunately, it sti...
by mark carlson
Mon Oct 03, 2022 12:27 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Some accents won't respond to dragging or nudging, some will
Replies: 15
Views: 1353

Some accents won't respond to dragging or nudging, some will

Most of the accents in the attached work just fine, but some of them will not respond to the arrow keys or to dragging by hand—for example, m. 19, flute, and of beat 1. If I use the arrow key to move it closer to the note head, it pops below the staff; if I try to drag it, the same thing happens. Th...
by mark carlson
Thu Aug 25, 2022 9:41 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: How do you globally change positions of staff names?
Replies: 2
Views: 426

Re: How do you globally change positions of staff names?

Take a look at point #6 on the manual page you attached. To clear any manual positioning, click on the staff name handle and press clear/backspace; shift/click to select multiple handles at once. I just shift/click multiple handles and use the arrow keys to nudge them - do the page 1s first then th...
by mark carlson
Thu Aug 25, 2022 8:27 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: How do you globally change positions of staff names?
Replies: 2
Views: 426

How do you globally change positions of staff names?

I want to change the position of all staff names and not have to do it staff by staff. I'm following the directions in the attached precisely, but nothing at all moves when I make the changes I want. What am I doing wrong? Attached also is p. 1 of the score I am working on. Thanks, Mark Carlson Fina...
by mark carlson
Thu Jul 14, 2022 2:43 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Unable to delete page break
Replies: 5
Views: 758

Re: Unable to delete page break

… What is that downward-and-pointing-to-the-left arrow? I thought that indicated a page break, but obviously not. I don't know what it is, regardless … That icon is a measure specific icon. The icon means that this very measure is forced to {Begin a new Staff System}. This is an option in the Measu...
by mark carlson
Thu Jul 14, 2022 8:01 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Unable to delete page break
Replies: 5
Views: 758

Re: Unable to delete page break

I am sorry, but your problem does not show - at least for me. Are you sure you attached the right Finale document? When I open your attached Finale document, I do not see any Page Break icon on System 4: NoPageBreak.jpg And for me System 4 is not beginning a new page. Did you perhaps mean System 3?...
by mark carlson
Thu Jul 14, 2022 12:07 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Unable to delete page break
Replies: 5
Views: 758

Unable to delete page break

I know how to delete a page break, but it's not working in the attached at system 4. In Page Layout, I select that system, pull down the Page Layout menu, and where I would normally just click on "Delete Page Break", I can't because it is greyed out. Can someone see what's wrong here? Thanks, Mark O...
by mark carlson
Wed Jul 13, 2022 1:30 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Hiding staff abbreviated names
Replies: 3
Views: 512

Re: Hiding staff abbreviated names

Actually, if you right click on the arrow next to the instrument name (second column) in the score manager, e.g. >Flute, you'll see there's an additional Flute on a different channel, starting in measure 26. Ditto the other instruments. I couldn't say how that happened (Change Instrument, maybe?) o...