Mac Finale, v27.4, Mac OS X 14.7.6 (Sonoma), iMac Apple M3, 24 GB RAM
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...
… Under what circumstances would I want a score to continue with a different page layout than I started with? … The circumstances could be e. g. that you indent one particular system on one parti...
… I have Update Page Layout checked in Page Layout. What else can I try? … If I understand you correctly, you have - in the Page Layout menu - selected “Update Page Format for Score”, right? Th...
There is not a dialog box where you can specify the number of systems per page, sorry! What you can do, is specify the page formatting for parts before all the parts are generated. This is done h...