Finale Forum

FWIW, I loved my old 13" 2012 MBP -- with an SSD, it coped very well with Finale, Creative suite and the rest. However, I recently decided to replace it with a 2014 Retina 15" MBP on eBay, and the difference is staggering. Not only is the screen super-crisp, showing staff lines really nice and thinl...

Is there a way to save these settings so that future documents created with the wizard will not do the same? Ordinary NEW documents are fine, Wizard ones always too small. Files saved in the user's Document Styles folder are available for selection in the Setup Wizard as the basis of new documents....

At the very least, I would ignore all spacing until you've got all the notes in. Then Fit Music and adjust as necessary. That's going to save a lot of messing about.

But as N. suggests, it does sound like something is off with your Spacing settings.

Yes, you need to be in each tool and do Text and Graphics separately.

I doubt you'll see the Selection Tool able to select the anchor points of text, graphics (and other things) until all the tools are done away with and we have one unified tool.

Can you load the document, or a screenshot? The Violin 1 is below the vocal line? Are there hidden stave between them?

Yes, you can drag-select or shift-select text blocks and then nudge them with the arrow keys. You can't set Frame attributes for more than one, though.

There is a bug with dragging staves when there are hidden staves in the system. ("Optimization" is a thing of the past.)

However, hightlighting a measure or region and using Respace Staves to set a value (relative or absolute) works.

Probably best not to advertise your computer's serial number on a public website.

The easiest way is to use the Space Systems plug-in, with a value for the Extra Top margin.

But without seeing a document, it's hard to comment further.

Or you could knock some measures down from the preceding system(s) (or knock the measures on the final system up) to balance the measures better.

Music is normally "fully justified", though some situations allow for leaving the last line short.

I might be wrong, but reinstalling the software shouldn't ever be necessary. Rarely, perhaps. The files that the installer writes to the disk are mostly read-only, which shouldn't get re-written or altered (unless your disk's integrity is failing). Problems are much more likely to come from other p...

I never knew what the font point size measured--height of a lower-case letter? As ever, "it's a bit more complicated than that". :D That's why different fonts at the same point size can appear to be markedly different. Traditionally, point size refers to the block size on which the letter form was ...

otto kristen wrote:My computer crashes maybe twice a year and i have to reset it to factory setting.

It might be worth focusing on the cause of this problem, and remedying it.

MikeHalloran wrote:Unlike many other apps, it makes no difference whether the drive is formatted APFS or not — I tested this.

I wasn't talking about running Finale 2011 on APFS, but about the added difficulty of downgrading from High Sierra with APFS in general.

I'm not looking to switch between windows within an application but rather switch between two applications: Finale and Transcribe. It is when I come back into Finale that I am presented with the toolbar but not the sheet. I have to click on the dockbar to bring up the sheet. This worked fine throug...

I'm having to select Finale with the pointer from the dockbar on my mac. Your Mac? Your signature says Windows. On the Mac, you can switch windows within an application with Command ` (that's the little backwards tick, on my keyboard next to Z). However, I don't see this on Finale 25.5 using Sierra...

The programm does not open. What can I do? Yes. Finale 2011 does not work on the latest version of MacOS. You best option is to upgrade to Finale 25: MakeMusic has been offering some good deals on upgrade pricing recently. The whole app has been updated to 64-bit, and there are many new features an...

In Prefs > Edit, turn off "Automatic Instrument Family Group Brackets".

There's a similar setting for Measure Numbers.

There are a number of bugs associated with selecting text in the Lyric Window. As mentioned, use Font Settings (Alt Command T).

If you want to change all lyrics, use the Change Fonts plug-in in Miscellaneous.

One of the little new features in F25 is that the cursor in SimpleEntry now displays in the selected Layer colour, making it easy to see whether you're laying down notes in the wrong layer. Macros? You mean this thing is programmable? Many people use general apps, such as iKey, QuickKeys and Keyboar...

I don't think so: there is no separate setting for the font (size) of each part of the time sig. You would have to fake it in some way. Given the nature of the score, you might benefit from fin-tuning each page in a vector artwork editor, such as Illustrator or Affinity Design anyway, where you coul...

I created a table showing all the keys on the keyboard, with their modifiers, and what Finale (or the OS) used them for. I could then see where the empty slots were. On the Mac, I discovered that many of the Ctrl-Command key shortcuts were empty, so I programmed them in -- Ctrl-Command-A for Artics;...

As said, when Finale has rules to adjust notes from their usual position (e.g. for seconds and dots), then the adjustment that Finale makes always over-rides your manual adjustments. The problem is that notes of this kind are exactly the ones that frequently need manual adjustment. It would be good ...

If you set "Manual Positioning" to "Ignore", your repositioned notes will stick. I have found that "Incorporate" seems to clear repositioning, which doesn't seem right to me and not what it's advertised to do. Others have reported this is not so, but it's what I've experienced. From the Mañuel: Cho...

I just tested Graphics Export and Save As PDF on the Mac. The Save As PDF one was twice the size (572Kb) as Finale's Graphic Export (258 Kb). I believe that is mostly down to the way fonts are handled than anything else: Mac OS subsets the fonts for each page; Finale does them once for the whole doc...

Jazz font was licensed by MakeMusic from a third-party, and they do not have permission to change it. The lack of movement on updating it was why they made Broadway instead.
There are many problems with Jazz font, and by all accounts they will not be fixed.