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- Sun Mar 29, 2020 8:10 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Perfect Layout v1.7 released
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1987
Perfect Layout v1.7 released
The plug-in Perfect Layout v1.7 for Finale has been released, a free-of-charge update for all v1.x users. Together with the v1.6 update from three weeks ago it adds nearly 60 new features, improvements and fixes . This is also the first version that supports MacOS. Currently it is only available to ...
- Mon Mar 23, 2020 7:36 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Problem 'Articolazioni' (Smart shape tool when PRINT)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 13073
Re: Problem 'Articolazioni' (Smart shape tool when PRINT)
Can you give an example of what you would like to switch off that is not possible at the moment?
- Mon Mar 23, 2020 7:11 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Problem 'Articolazioni' (Smart shape tool when PRINT)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 13073
Re: Problem 'Articolazioni' (Smart shape tool when PRINT)
Of course, this would be possible.
But ... this would make about 800 options. Way too complicated, not enough users interested, too much work testing all options and even more support requests where to find/how to use all the features.
But ... this would make about 800 options. Way too complicated, not enough users interested, too much work testing all options and even more support requests where to find/how to use all the features.
- Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:31 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Problem 'Articolazioni' (Smart shape tool when PRINT)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 13073
Re: Problem 'Articolazioni' (Smart shape tool when PRINT)
Thanks, Anders, for the clarification. I was indeed a bit unsure what exactly your question was. If you want the plug-in to do only a few things, just deactivate the functions in the dialog. The user dialog of the Gold version has more than 200 options. However some "standard" features can't be deac...
- Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:55 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Problem 'Articolazioni' (Smart shape tool when PRINT)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 13073
Re: Problem 'Articolazioni' (Smart shape tool when PRINT)
The Perfect Layout plug-in fixes the "hairpin distance to dynamics" printing problem by automatically adjusting the hairpin length to what is printed. So after applying the plug-in the distance between the hairpin and the "attached" dynamic may look not optimal in some cases, but when printing it wi...
- Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:05 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: The last gasp of Finale?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11338
Re: The last gasp of Finale?
Yes, I fully agree with you, BuonTempi. I had hoped that I could convince MM to a cooperation the several times I have contacted them since 2015 - especially when I visited their headquarters in Boulder last year and gave a presentation of Perfect Layout to the whole Finale team. But as of today the...
- Fri Feb 21, 2020 10:28 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: The last gasp of Finale?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11338
Re: The last gasp of Finale?
All these are things that Perfect Layout already does.
- Thu Feb 06, 2020 11:47 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Plug-ins for cleaning lyrics?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2614
- Fri Dec 20, 2019 10:33 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: On to Dorico
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6411
Re: On to Dorico
Here is a short video demo of making Ed's original Finale score more comparable with Dan's Dorico screenshot in just 100 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTM4imFCXso It seems like Dan used more horizontal space. That's why it still looks a bit squeezed. I used Aruvarb (Finale's Bravura font)...
- Thu Dec 19, 2019 3:11 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Boulez?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2361
Re: Boulez?
The Boulez.lib file has never been a part of the Elbsound Music Fonts Package.
But indeed Boulez.lib comes with the original Boulez font package which can be downloaded here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150720185 ... om/boulez/
But indeed Boulez.lib comes with the original Boulez font package which can be downloaded here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150720185 ... om/boulez/
- Wed Dec 04, 2019 5:20 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Perfect Layout free update v1.2 released (more than 80 improvements and new features)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6779
Re: Perfect Layout free update v1.2 released (more than 80 improvements and new features)
John, that's why I suggested JetStream. They do little handy scripts like this which are started by a keystroke.
- Wed Dec 04, 2019 5:19 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Perfect Layout free update v1.2 released (more than 80 improvements and new features)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6779
Re: Perfect Layout free update v1.2 released (more than 80 improvements and new features)
Michel R E, this has always been possible. But it takes less information into account, so not all functions are performed. You can also run it on single pages or a region of some staves and some measures. And, of course, you can run it directly on one part only OR on a staff plus its part(s) (if you...
- Wed Dec 04, 2019 3:52 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Perfect Layout free update v1.2 released (more than 80 improvements and new features)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6779
Re: Perfect Layout free update v1.2 released (more than 80 improvements and new features)
Perfect Layout is a plug-in that is meant for processing a whole score (including parts). It's not meant for usage on selected articulations only, though it's possible to also run it only individual measures only. Some of the cases that you describe are pretty difficult to detect automatically (thou...
- Wed Dec 04, 2019 9:04 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Perfect Layout free update v1.2 released (more than 80 improvements and new features)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6779
Re: Perfect Layout free update v1.2 released (more than 80 improvements and new features)
Isn't that something that you can already do with the automatic stacking of Finale 26?
Can you post a before/after screenshot of what you're thinking of?
Can you post a before/after screenshot of what you're thinking of?
- Mon Dec 02, 2019 10:22 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Perfect Layout free update v1.2 released (more than 80 improvements and new features)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6779
Re: Perfect Layout free update v1.2 released (more than 80 improvements and new features)
Hi John, do you have any examples of what you are looking for with vertical/horizontal alignment of articulations? The plug-in removes many collisions by changing the vertical alignment, including most collisions with slurs, ties, tuplet brackets, dynamics and other articulations ("stacking of two a...
- Tue Nov 26, 2019 6:18 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Perfect Layout free update v1.2 released (more than 80 improvements and new features)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6779
Perfect Layout free update v1.2 released (more than 80 improvements and new features)
Today we have released Perfect Layout v1.2 for Finale®/Windows. The update is free for all v1.0 users. Improvements include: - Tuplet optimizations (Demo: https://elbsound.studio/l1y.php) - Cue note optimizations (Demo: https://elbsound.studio/4kd.php) - Better compound expressions support (Demo: ht...
- Tue Oct 08, 2019 1:47 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: To Power-Users: Patterson Beam Plugin
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1858
Re: To Power-Users: Patterson Beam Plugin
N Grossingink is right. You don't need to use the Patterson Beams plug-in for PL. It is just a reminder that the beams might look better if you run Patterson Beams before running PL. The message is something like "Running Patterson Beams is highly recommended, but not mandatory." In the manual it sa...
- Sun Sep 15, 2019 3:01 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: elbsound.studio Perfect Layout
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12436
Re: elbsound.studio Perfect Layout
Ok, back to the main topic ... :-) Here is ebiggs1's Thais with the default settings of Perfect Layout v1.15 (before/after). The most discussable thing is the new staff/system distance which can be easily adjusted in PL: one can decide with a slider to give more space to the staves or to the systems...
- Sat Sep 14, 2019 11:23 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: elbsound.studio Perfect Layout
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12436
Re: elbsound.studio Perfect Layout
We can give you support ebiggs1 on which settings in your file or in the plug-in you have to change. But as we wrote in our "Welcome"-email it is impossible to give support just by looking at a screenshot, not knowing how it looked before, what settings and fonts you used and if you fully followed t...
- Fri Sep 13, 2019 6:10 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: elbsound.studio Perfect Layout
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12436
Re: elbsound.studio Perfect Layout
I haven't found it in the PDF help file, but, how exactly does one go about making the (vertical) spacing a bit tighter? The easiest way is to change the "Extra Vertical Collision Offset" value: it applies globally to (nearly) all vertical collision distances. (See https://elbsound.studio/perfect-l...
- Fri Sep 13, 2019 3:25 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: elbsound.studio Perfect Layout
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12436
Re: elbsound.studio Perfect Layout
On the last file PL took out all the cue notes. Yes, cue notes in a score are by default automatically made invisible through staff styles, so that they only appear in the parts (see the sections on cue notes in the PDF manual). You can deactivate this feature, but usually one doesn't want to have ...
- Fri Sep 13, 2019 6:41 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: elbsound.studio Perfect Layout
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12436
Re: elbsound.studio Perfect Layout
The second file run a whole lot faster. Just minutes and it is more complex. PL did miss some stuff and messed some stuff up. oh come all ye faithful for 2019d_PL.jpg What did PL miss here? Measure number collisions are not part of the features. The feature list is available here: https://elbsound....
- Fri Sep 13, 2019 6:22 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: elbsound.studio Perfect Layout
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12436
Re: elbsound.studio Perfect Layout
I am now trying it on a really simple four part chart and it is agonizingly slow. I has been at it for nearly an hour. Can you send us the file? Maybe it is a corrupt Finale document. Typically the plug-in needs ca. 0.03 - 0.2sec per frame. So if it is a score with 200 measures, score, four parts, ...
- Fri Aug 30, 2019 7:05 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: crescendo and decrescendo
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3817
Re: crescendo and decrescendo
Hairpins work better in playback if they end with a dynamic expression. Because - only then - the human playback knows the proper end volume and the gradual change before. If you don't want to see the dynamic expression in the score, use a dynamic expression with a hidden font. Jan https://elbsound....
- Tue Aug 27, 2019 9:56 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: JW Lua
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5766
Re: JW Lua
Once the file is saved and then closed and reopened (or if you Revert to the last saved version), the dot goes back to where it was. That's (probably) the Finale bug, that JW Lua can't fix either. It just seems to not save the position in the file. It looks like a similar bug in Fin2014/2014.5 wher...