Klarinet Archive - Posting 000225.txt from 2006/02

From: "Howard Shertzer" <shertzhg@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Finale
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:11:20 -0500

Give it up, Tim. You are wrong.
The file association is changed by "opening with".
If the Maestro Fonts do not open with Finale, you get junk on the page.
Reinstalling fonts or program do not necessarily fix the problem.
Someone else followed this advice for Encore, and it works the same way.
This is a Windows issue, not a Finale issue.
The change only affects the specific font files for which the association is
changed.

If it doesn't work, things are easily changed back, so little unhappiness is
suffered.

Look at it this way.
There is the potential for great gain, with little potential for loss.

The alternative is to keep reinstalling the program and the fonts a few
hundred times.

Your choice.

Howard

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Finale

> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:27:00 -0500, "Howard Shertzer"
> <shertzhg@-----.edu> wrote:
>
>>WHEN THIS HAPPENED TO MY FINALE 2005A, REINSTALING DID NOT HELP. WINDOWS
>>DID
>>NOT KNOW HOW TO FIND THE FILE (MAESTRO FONTS).
>>THE MANUAL AND THE EMAIL HELP FROM FINALE DID NOT WORK.
>>I FIXED THE PROBLEM BY GOING TO THE WINDOWS/FONTS DIRECTORY. THERE YOU
>>WILL
>>FIND A SET OF MAESTRO FONTS. RIGHT BUTTON CLICK , CHOOSE PROPERTIES, AND
>>CHANGE THE FILE ASSOCIATION TO FINALE.
>>TRY THIS IF THE RE-INSTALL DOES NOT WORK.
>>
>>
>
> This is the second time you've made that suggestion, and it is STILL
> completely wrong. Font files in Windows are not "associated" with
> applications. If a font is present and undamaged, it can be used by ANY
> application.
>
> Now, it is true that every type of file has a default application that
> is launched when you double-click a file of that type. For .doc files,
> that application is Microsoft Word. For font files, it is the Windows
> Font Viewer. I assume this is the "association" you are referring to
> (although the property page doesn't call it that.). It is possible to
> change this default application, but if you do so, you will change the
> default application for ALL font files. That doesn't mean the files
> can't be used, it just means that if you double-click on a font file,
> Windows will launch Finale, which will attempt to open the font file as
> if it were a musical score. Predictably, this will fail.
>
> DO NOT follow this advice. It will only cause you unhappiness.
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
>
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