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So I went to extract a part before I saved the score. (I thought it said export part). So I accidentally extracted one part, is there any way I can get the score back? I worked for multiple hours on the score and would be heartbroken to lose it. Thank you! Extracting a Part produces a separate docu...

It is possible to drag the "window" of the tool palette to become smaller than can fit all the icons: as a result, you lose some of the icons. You should get them back just by resizing the window.

Doug wrote:horizontal always jumps to the next measure no matter what zoom level. Is Finale only able to redraw the screen measure by measure?

Yes, In Scroll View, Finale moves by measures.
In Page View, you can move the display area around however you like.

MikeHalloran wrote:I've been using Acrobat Pro X for this.

I have Acrobat X, too. But it's much quicker to combine PDFs or images into PDFs with a right-click in the Finder than Acrobat's clumsy UI.

I have BensPDFSuite dated the summer of 2016. Is this improved from that version? That was all done in AppleScript, and didn't do as much. (Though it did included a better PDF-X3 Quartz Filter, which this doesn't.) These are a lot faster, too. I'm particularly pleased that my PDF Joining script run...

As you say, the printer just scales the page size to the paper, as the proportions are the same. I haven't created a "scale page to particular size" utility. Though someone did post one here (or on the old forum) a while ago. I might have a go, though because of the inherent scalability of vector PD...

You'll forgive me for blowing my own trumpet, but I've produced some PDF utilities for that might be useful for Mac Finale users. It includes booklet imposition, combining separate PDFs, adding folio numbers or watermark text, Save As PDF-X3 and a whole lot more. Most are "Services", so they go in t...

As far as I know and can tell, the functions haven't changed. Look at the Help Page for Page View to see all the various key presses.

https://usermanuals.finalemusic.com/Fin ... e_View.htm

1. The behaviour of Navigation keys hasn't changed, but the function does vary depending on whether you're in Page View or Scroll View. In Page View, Page Up and Down moves the display by a full screen's worth. CTRL-Page moves the display by a "paper" page. Your Zoom Size and View Style may confuse ...

Certainly the new file system is an additional factor from usual, though it's optional to implement, as long as you don't click blindly through the installer. It's always been good advice to wait a little while before installing the new OS (though obviously someone has to try it for that to work). E...

So you've already moved entirely to Windows? OK. I hope it works out for you.

However, according to Adobe, there are known issues running CS4 on Windows 7. They might not affect you in your work, but it's not all kittens and unicorns on Windows. OS updates on both platforms break things.

What applications would not work with Mac 10.8? Well, Adobe InDesign, for example, wich I purchased honestly when that was still possible. Upgrading, I fear that I would have to lease a program that I only use occasionally. You mean "what would not work beyond 10.8?" I inferred that you were on 10....

There are never any problems of that kind on Windows. Even with my limited knowledge of Windows, I know for a fact that's not true! :lol: As I said: the latest version of Office doesn't run on XP., and I imagine it won't be long before W7 will be on the margin. There are plenty of versions of IE th...

I'm nothing of a programmer, so I know nothing of API's for example. I only know that my oldish Windows 7 can handle Finale 25, and Mac 10.8 can't. Sorry, but I had it with Apple. Why not upgrade the Mac OS to a newer version, so you can run newer apps? MacBook Pros from 2010 onwards can run the la...

BuonTempi, how do you explain that Apple doesn't give you the opportunity to run Finale 25 on OS 10.8 while Windows does so with an 'older' system like W 7? Without seeing MM's code, it's impossible to say. However, while Apple don't change existing APIs, they do add new ones, and so it's possible ...

My guess is it's not ominous, but rather too expensive having Apple pull the rug out from under them every time there's a new version of the OS. Apple goes to tremendous lengths to keep code working (which has included CPU emulation for two different chip sets). It also gives developers YEARS of wa...

On Mac, it's the pagesizes.txt file in the user's Configuration Files folder. Then they'll appear in the drop-down menu. However, the page size is also set by the Document Style. So you could have different Document Styles set up with those page sizes, as well as staff sizes and other settings parti...

I think that Finale's demo version should offer the "NotePad" subset of features after the 30 day expiry. So you can still save and print, but have annoyingly arbitrary limits placed across the whole feature set.

That's strange, because Maestro IS (or should be) in the MacSymbolFont.txt file that comes with Finale 25. Unless you've copied over an old one, but presumably you added it there before, too.

Maestro is the default font and should "just work" on an out-of-the-box install of Finale.

Apropos of nothing, I note that someone has just produced an edition for Baeren of music by Bach, arranged for harpsichord, using MuseScore. https://musescore.org/en/node/249356 There is now more choice than ever before: MuseScore, Lilypond, Dorico, Sibelius and Finale. And I think Finale is flouris...

That's entirely due to the OS, not to any robustness of Finale. MacOS continues to support all the fonts it's ever done. Finale then just takes what the OS gives it.

Note that there is a special version of Bravura called Bravura Text, designed to work better in Text blocks than the version for use in notation.

Each and every one is created from scratch ... with the help of the Setup Wizard. I do not use document styles. If you're using the Setup Wizard, then you are using a Document Style, even if it's just the "Engraved Style" one, which is essentially the Maestro Font Default file. By '"re-saved", I me...

I understand that you can do very little with as little information as I am giving you and I really do appreciate every effort all you guys are putting in to this. If I could be certain that viewing a document would reveal what caused corruption, I would send the current document over private mail....

Firstly, there is an easy way to do this using JW Staff Polyphony plug-in. You can split chords into Layers with one click. If you're not using these, you should! http://finaletips.nu/index.php/download Secondly, you need to use "Show Active Layer Only" in the Document menu. That allows you to copy ...