| demonology [message #8679] |
Mon, 22 December 2008 19:07  |
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 Black Bear
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| Re: demonology [message #8687 is a reply to message #8679 ] |
Mon, 22 December 2008 19:55  |
Jeanne Marie
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"Whereupon Finale refused to cut and paste more than about half a dozen bars at one go, or when I pasted them they were full of thirty second and sixty fourth and one hundred and ninety second notes, with so many tiny pennoncels flying they look ciliated."
Oh dear. Sibelius does this sometimes, too. When I'm in the middle of the program, I remember what to do, but I'm about to be late for a choir rehearsal (I'm the director now, talk about bad form), so I can't dive into it to check. Offhand, I think it has to do with making sure the time signature in the staff you're pasting to is the same as the one you're pasting from (that is, if Sibelius and Finale gremlins all have lunch together where they plan this kind of thing...)...
Wait, what am I saying? Oisin will fix it! He's the Finale man!
But, you might be interested to know that I finally bought a Sibelius upgrade. It's sitting on my desk waiting for Tech Guru's "permission to load." He's a little annoyed that I left it til AFTER his last big visit to get it, I think - or, just miffed that I took it from a different budget line item (hey, he should be happy about that!)
Uh oh, the tenor section just visited my office, better scoot! (yes, that was the whole section...all one of him... *sigh*)
Smiles,
Jeanne Marie
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| Re: demonology [message #8691 is a reply to message #8679 ] |
Mon, 22 December 2008 20:36 |
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Good gracious. So...what did you do to fix it?
I agree with Black Bear. Surely there is a way to save it as a PDF and print from that! The printing, scanning, printing. Good golly, what a pain.
Glad everything worked in the end, though, and Apophis and Asmodeus were able to help you! (Love their new names.)
Smooshes!
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| Re: demonology [message #8708 is a reply to message #8679 ] |
Tue, 23 December 2008 03:20 |
anef
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Cambridge, England |
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Your computer demons are truly heroic. I hope that when Asmodeus does next come round you can reward him with some of the fabulous cookies that you have been posting the recipes for. (Urk - that was frightful grammar. Sorry. For which you have been posting the recipes.)
[Updated on: Tue, 23 December 2008 03:20]
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| Re: demonology [message #8709 is a reply to message #8679 ] |
Tue, 23 December 2008 05:53 |
NotLonely
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Registered: October 2008
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Oh dear gods. Good luck. When you can, will be the best time for the carol ^_^
* Normal. Maybe that’s my problem. I mean, it’s always been my problem, the tragic search for normality, but I wasn’t really expecting my composing software to weigh in on the subject.
Yup. Gotta be it. I mean, you got your husband to pay whoknowswhat (I’m too scared even to look up the cost never mind haha budget) and you expect it to *work*? It’s a Universal Comment on Normality. Yup.
Can you tell I hate software?
* with so many tiny pennoncels flying they look ciliated
OK. So my dictionary has pennants but not pennoncels (spell-checker, of course, suggests ‘penances’). I assume they’re related. Ciliated I got. /Thank you/ for sharing your incredible gift for words. Read McKinley! Elucidating, Entertaining, Educating (and a bloody good read too)
* it’s dangerous in there, and loitering is discouraged
Yes. Amazing how loitering is still, despite the danger and discouragement, irresistible.
* And he says [gleep gleep gleep blah blah blah]
At first, I assumed that you meant what normally happens here in SA, where almost no-one except me and businesses have landline phones any more. I.e. the signal is perfect right up until the operative word, phrase or sentence, at which point it goes /hisssssssss/ if you’re lucky and /screeeeeeech/ if you’re not.
It took two reads to realise you probably meant “insert incomprehensible tech-speak here” Talk about subconscious cultural conditioning.
Life always, always finds a way.
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| Re: demonology [message #8713 is a reply to message #8679 ] |
Tue, 23 December 2008 07:09 |
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yea computer guys, you rock.can't wait to hear x-mas carol.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: demonology [message #8718 is a reply to message #8679 ] |
Tue, 23 December 2008 16:47 |
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I can't wait to hear the carol! Sorry about all the computer business, really glad you got it mostly taken care of. For now.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: demonology [message #8731 is a reply to message #8679 ] |
Tue, 23 December 2008 18:24 |
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I found this on the Finale website:
Can you suggest any way I could create a visual preview of files people might want to download from my personal web site?
Owners of Finale 2004-2009 for Mac OS X can easily create PDF files that can be used as web previews. Windows users interested in creating PDF files have a number of resources available to them, including free PDF drivers available at www.pdf995.com and www.cutepdf.com, Adobe Acrobat Distiller, or services which will convert their Finale files to PDF files.
Of course you have to have some PDF creating software like Acrobat or the free ones they have listed above - yet more software!
And on Finales website Forum there was a looooooong discussion about PDF and this was an interesting comment:
If you don't embed the required fonts into the PDF, a user who doesn't have those fonts on their system will not see what you intended. They will see whatever font their pdf-reader substitutes for the missing font. (If you try viewing it on YOUR system, which certainly has the Finale-fonts installed, it looks fine.) Any pdf-writer program should have an option to "imbed fonts" or for "publishing quality" or something like that.
And here is a summary of everything useful out of the discussion
http://davidbolton.info/articles/finale_pdf.html
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| Re: demonology [message #8921 is a reply to message #8679 ] |
Fri, 26 December 2008 20:31 |
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Hey southdowner!
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: demonology [message #8932 is a reply to message #8679 ] |
Fri, 26 December 2008 22:26 |
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glad to hear from you southdowner.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: demonology [message #8946 is a reply to message #8679 ] |
Sat, 27 December 2008 05:59 |
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Susan from Athens
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Registered: October 2008
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yay, you're back southdowner! We have missed you. You chose them because you fell in love. What does that have to do with sense? And, I mean, feather boas? How many dogs would put up with that?
“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges
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