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DAVID SPARR Posted
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I'm using Finale 27.2 on a Mac (Monterey OS). This issue was brought up in a post about Finale 12 about six years ago, (with no solution possible) but I was hoping things had maybe changed by now.

The issue is I often need to put text over an imported graphic, but the graphic layer defaults to the foreground, blocking any text (or music) that exists behind it, even when adding the text later. I would love to be able to have the graphic in the background, not the foreground. Any solution yet to this other than turning Finale itself into a graphic and importing it into Word or some similar program (and then adding text)?

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MIKE HALLORAN Posted
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Any solution yet to this other than turning Finale itself into a graphic and importing it into Word or some similar program (and then adding text)?

 

None that I know. On the other hand, Word significantly improved its handling of graphics in 2016, especially imported pdf files which I found unacceptable in Word 2012 and earlier. Quark, Adobe and other companies have products that make this chore fairly easy. 

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DAVID SPARR Posted
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Yes, I agree. Word has gotten very fluid with graphics editing. It’s just if I want to go back and edit anything musically it adds a lot more steps to the process, compared to being able to save as a Finale file.

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MIKE HALLORAN Posted
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I can't imaging Finale having full page layout functionality — or QuarkXPress adding a music notation tool. I can see why some would consider it useful.

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DAVID SPARR Posted
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Well, Mike, I often am adding translations to music documents where it’s easier to import those texts as graphic objects. So I’m hoping that some developer at Coda will be able to imagine providing such a basic feature that so many other programs provide. “Send to back” is available on most entry-level programs - not just QuarkXPress.

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ERNEST BIGGS Posted
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“Send to back” is available on most entry-level programs 

 

Actually that may not be so far fetched. Finale already has layer 1, 2, 3 and 4 ability. Perhaps some use of that could be applied?

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MIKE HALLORAN Edited
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Well, Mike, I often am adding translations to music documents where it’s easier to import those texts as graphic objects. So I’m hoping that some developer at Coda will be able to imagine providing such a basic feature that so many other programs provide. “Send to back” is available on most entry-level programs - not just QuarkXPress.

 

and Word and Adobe and perhaps LibreOffice and many other apps. So what?

 

To my knowledge, Finale does not have this graphics capability and there’s no mention of it in the User Manual. Four layers in Notation is not the same at all. Counting on some MakeMusic developer someday deciding that this might be a useful feature doesn’t help you get this done now.  

 

Feature requests for 28 are posted in the Feature Request section.

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DAVID SPARR Posted
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No argument here. Just having a friendly discussion to see if anyone else thought this would be a useful feature. For my work it would be extremely helpful, but apparently you are saying I should stop dreaming 😋

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