Mac Finale, v27.4, Mac OS X 14.7.6 (Sonoma), iMac Apple M3, 24 GB RAM
… I have 4 Copyist fonts. The first “copyist" is symbols only. Then there are “perc,” “text” and “text extended.” … The first font = the {symbols only} font is the music font. You can use it for ac...
For the accidentals in chord symbols, choose one of the music fonts - like the Jazz font, or the Broadway Copyist font. Do not use a font like JazzText, or Broadway Copyist Text - these fonts are t...
Contact the folks in Customer Support - they should be able to solve the problem.
You can also scan with Preview. Just another way to “skin the cat”.
For older eyes, in a dark pit, try 85 % scaling. Where the conditions are better, you can try 80 % or 75 % - or even 70 %.
Bryan Miller, Your screen shot shows a Harp part. Are you talking about harp pedalling symbols? Indeed it would make sense to pedal the B flat strings to B natural during the 4th measure since th...
I am sure everyone here in the forum will help you “with a few other things” in Finale. All you have to do is ask.
… the staff tool cannot select it … … double clicking with the selection tool merely selects the measure stack … What happens if you - from the Selection Tool - single-click on the “ghost staff”?...
Are you sure you had a Chord Tool in NotePad, not in perhaps SongWriter, or in PrintMusic? I could be wrong here, but I seem to remember that NotePad does not have the Chord Tool. NotePad can ope...
As a first step I would switch to the Selection Tool, and double-click the rogue staff. Double-clicking an item from the Selection Tool will switch to the tool in which the item was created, with t...