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- From: ajross@husc10.harvard.edu (Andrew Ross)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.compose,rec.music.makers
- Subject: Re: Problem with Finale (PC) and Deskjet ! Help !
- Message-ID: <ajross.725242294@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 00:11:34 GMT
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- downs@helios.nevada.edu (Lamont Downs) writes:
-
- >>I recently bought the music notation program Finale for Windows.
- >>But i have some printing problems: if I print in the normal way
- >>(i.e. ms-windows prints the file) the solution is *really* very bad.
- >>(I've a deskjet 500 but this isn't 300dpi which I receive, perhaps
- >>150dpi!!)
- >>I've also tried to compile a Postscript listing and then to print
- >>it by Ghostscript, but sometimes I receive some errors of which I think
- >>that they're caused by Ghostscript.
- >>
- >>Does anyone out there has the combination of Finale(PC) and HP Deskjet
- >>running ? Do you have anyhints to get a better printing qualitiy
- >>(either by windows or Ghostscript) ??
-
- >I'm not using the DJ (using a Canon BJ-330 instead) but it sounds like what
- >I used to get before I installed Adobe Type Manager. If you're not using ATM
- >or PostScript, Finale uses a bitmapped font which is not very high
- >resolution for printing and looks terrible. With ATM installed, Windows
- >uses the Adobe Type 1 information to create characters scaled to the actual
- >resolution your printer is capable of. The difference in appearance with &
- >without ATM (which costs about $50 or so) is breathtaking. Unfortunately,
- >the current version of Finale does not work with Win 3.1's TrueType, though
- >_supposedly_ a version 3.0 to be released someday will.
-
- >If you're already using ATM, just ignore this...
-
- >Lamont Downs
- >downs@helios.nevada.edu
-
- >PS: With ATM installed, _any_ Type 1 fonts you install become available to
- >_all_ your Windows applications, not just Finale (for example, WordPerfect
- >for Windows).
-
- I'll second this recomendation. I have Finale 2.0 running with a DJ500
- and have had no problems. I'm using Win 3.1 with ATM 2.0. Definitely
- consider getting ATM--it's more than worth the cost.
-
- As to the next version of Finale, Coda has been pretty tight-lipped about
- it. The last I talked to them (about 2 mo. ago) they wouldn't even give
- me an idea of a release date, and wouldn't say if the Win 3.1 multimedia
- specs would be supported for the MIDI stuff (please, oh please...)
-
- Hope this helps,
- Andy Ross
- ajross@husc.harvard.edu
-