Mac Finale, v27.4, Mac OS X 14.7.6 (Sonoma), iMac Apple M3, 24 GB RAM
… dotted-quarter-note quintuplet over the whole measure doesn't … There are several ways to enter a tuplet. One of the ways (= probably the way you are entering a tuplet) will not let you end a m...
Try the {across system break} method. When you have run the plug-in, the solution will stay the same, even if you re-arrange the measures so that the beaming no longer goes across a system break
… First, with the Selection tool, select just the area you want beamed together (in this case the last quarter and first eighth of the following measure) … In my experience there is no need to se...
Oops! Sorry! I forgot that you are using Finale 2008. Indeed “optimization” is the way things are done in Finale 2008.
… I went to the Staff tool, hit Select All (on that 2nd Violin part) and selected the multimeasure rests, 'create' button. Funny that it worked for percussion, but it does absolutely nothing on the...
Michael M, The original poster (= Victor Frost) is using Mac Finale, and my reply was about Finale for Mac OS X. Other users of Windows Finale have reported the same results as you. There are d...
From your description it sunds like you create the PDF file via “printing” to a PDF file. When you do so, the resulting PDF file will not be truly Black&White, but rather a color mixture. Instead...
That looks like a font issue. I suspect that the Finale fonts are not correctly installed. https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/217585418-Music-fonts-display-incorrectly
… Am I missing something? I feel like this is something that can definitely be done currently. Accessed from the [Page Layout] menu … You are not missing anything. And there is also the plug-in S...
… Possibly. But it still seems to me that under most circumstances I would want to continue as I had been, so that should be the default … In the Page Layout menu, toggle the setting “Update Page...