Edited part reverts back when printed

[ronny]

I'm using finale 2008, Vista. I have a score that I've extracted parts from and upon printing, the drum part keeps reverting BACK to an unedited form when I print it. The bars are not lined up correctly, there's no multi-measure rests, etc......What is that? Anyone ever seen that? All of the other parts printed fine.

I am printing to create a pdf but even printing on my 'normal' printers, the part comes out NOT looking like my edited version. When I 'print', the part looks fine on the screen, but then it changes instantly to something strange. I've tried shutting down finale and rebooting, but still the same problem with this part. I re-extracted/edited and still no help.

Anyone?

[ronny]

I've traced the problem to staff styles/blank notation. WTH???? I can't figure out WHY when I try to use the blank notation like I used to in finale 2003, upon printing, the staves all appear again with NO multimeasure rest like I want it. Crazy. I guess I'll have to call them to see why they 'fixed' it.

[michelp]

This is not new : no multimeasure rest can be created not only unless all measures are really empty, but also when certain staff styles with alternate notation are present (slashes, rhythmic, blank). Clear them first.

NB : I've recently noticed that a staff style created for a transposition purpose (switching to a doubling in a staff) does not prevent multimeasure rests from being created.

[ronny]

This is not new : no multimeasure rest can be created not only unless all measures are really empty, but also when certain staff styles with alternate notation are present (slashes, rhythmic, blank). Clear them first.

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Not so. In finale 2003a, I could extract a drum part that had a multi-measure rest and then convert that area to blank notation and write "16 bars time" or whatever over it. When printed, it remained a 'multi-measure' rest for the purpose of spacing and the "16 bars time" remained exactly as I wanted it. NOW, I find that upon printing, the 'multi-measure' rest converts BACK to 16 blank bars thus messing up the look and spacing. Strange upgrade if you ask me. I've sent the file to finale but no response yet. 

[Peter Thomsen]

ronny,

I could be wrong here, but I think that the culprit is this:

Document Options > Multimeasure Rests

Deselect the option "Update Automatically".

"Update Automatically" is fine during note entry:
It will automatically break a multimeasure rest as you enter music in empty measures.

But when you have finished entering music, "Update Automatically" is only annoying, since it will screw up all edits to multimeasure rests.

Peter