Klarinet Archive - Posting 000661.txt from 1999/10

From: Oliver Seely <oliver@-----.EDU>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: reading with earlier versions of Finale
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 23:46:12 -0400

Fabulous, Karl. I'll try it as soon as I've graded a stack of lab reports.
Many, many thanks.

Oliver

At 09:36 PM 10/21/99 -0400, you wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Oliver Seely [mailto:oliver@-----.EDU]
>> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 5:43 PM
>> To: klarinet@-----.org
>> Subject: [kl] Re: reading with earlier versions of Finale
>>
>>
>> Hi Karl,
>>
>> Could you direct me to the source of the information about that "trick" to
>> read
>> later edition Finale files with earlier editions of the program.
>>
>
>I don't know which list it came from, but I still have the message I was
>sent when I complained about the inability to save Finale files in formats
>readable by older versions. Here it is:
>
>"1. Create an ETF file with the newer version."
>"2. Open it in a text processor."
>"3. Replace the first lines, up to number 19., with the same lines from
>_any_ older version ETF file."
>"It may be a good idea to read other Finale Forums, such as the one at
>cmp.net. The above idea was originally Dan Eichenbaums."
>
>I don't know how far back you can jump - I only used it between Finale 97
>and 3.7. I have not tried it often, but the few times I did, it worked
>better than saving as a .MID file, which loses all formatting and expression
>marks. Things needed to be reformatted and I had some problems with text
>elements (titles, page footers, etc.) because versions since 97 have treated
>them very differently from versions 3.x. I'll do some experimenting between
>Finale 2000 and Finale 98, which I still have on my machine. I have the
>disks for versions all the way back to 2.2, but I don't expect to be
>reinstalling any of them anytime soon.
>
>Karl Krelove
>
>
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