Thomas, Finale no longer supports Postscript fonts. I'm guessing your problem is with a PS font. A few messages earlier, I post a link to the thread where I documented this. Here's the jist of m...
Thanks, Jeffrey. I tried this and it didn't work for me (that option was unchecked anyway). Luckily, the only file I'm still getting these Chinese characters is an earlier version of a file which...
BTW, I found the thread (Finale slow and laggy)... https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/219104948/comments/360000856653 I had created new True Type fonts for my Times Condensed fo...
I know this is an old thread, but I just had the same problem. I'm on a 2018 iMac running Sierra and Finale 25. When I opened a 2011 file, some of the text shows as Chinese characters. I believe...
Paul Thompson and Babur Tongue, note that earlier in this thread it was mentioned that you should "Show Info" on the Finale app and check "Open in Low Resolution". This will significantly increase...
Thanks, Peter. I didn't mention that I can open Finale files in Finale 25 by double-clicking in the Finder. It requires only telling the system to open that filetype with Finale 25. The system k...
I've used a font converter to convert these 2 Postscript fonts to TrueType. The modified fonts use the same names and attributes as the originals and Finale 25 now displays all files containing th...
I just noticed this from the knowledge base: For on-screen display, Finale 2012 and later versions of the program support TrueType, OpenType, and Unicode fonts. Finale 2012 and later can print us...
Here are some more details regarding my font problem. Finale 14.5 does not have this problem on Sierra. Finale 25 does have the problem on El Capitan. So it looks like it's a problem specific t...
J Adrian, thanks for the question. I tried a number of things as a result. First, the font comes up as TimesCond15 14 plain as expected so I need to first change it to another font. I changed it...