Quickly changing fonts

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acidbahia
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Post by acidbahia » Mon Apr 16, 2018 7:18 pm

Hello,
I have a bunch of charts that were written using the jazz font.
Is there a way to quickly convert them using Finale default font library in few clicks?
Many thanks!
MAC OSX 10.4.4/Finale 2005/Sibelius 4


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miker
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Post by miker » Mon Apr 16, 2018 9:02 pm

Convert them to what?
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Post by acidbahia » Mon Apr 16, 2018 9:05 pm

Convert them to the default Finale fonts, both text, and notation
MAC OSX 10.4.4/Finale 2005/Sibelius 4

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Post by BuonTempi » Tue Apr 17, 2018 6:21 am

You can change the Default Music Font under the Documents menu. You can load in a Library of options and settings that suit a different font.

That will get you most of the way. There may still be some things that need manually adjusting. Chord suffixes are not without difficulty.

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Post by N Grossingink » Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:36 pm

Another way to approach this is to make a new default template with the same instrumentation using the Setup Wizard. Copy the source file into the template. You'll see any "wrong" chord suffixes at the end of the suffix selection box. Delete any one of these and specify a replacement from the default suffixes. Continue one by one until all old suffixes are replaced. Do the same thing with the articulations and expressions. It's a bit of work, but the easiest way to make sure all unwanted symbols are replaced with the correct one.

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Post by acidbahia » Fri Apr 20, 2018 4:18 pm

Thank you, I'll look into this. All the best
MAC OSX 10.4.4/Finale 2005/Sibelius 4

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