Blank Pages When Printing
By admin on Jul 23, 2008 in Finale 2008, Finale 2009, Print
Some users have seen issues where they have been getting Blank Pages when priting from Finale. MakeMusic seems to be aware of an issue with Brother MFC model printer drivers/printers that causes Finale to output blank pages when printing. This can even happen when printing documents as a PDF files or creating a Preview if the Brother printer or printer driver is the only one installed. I have also heard of this happening with Adobe Acrobat 8 and its Distiller.
There does seem to be a work-around that will allow you to create a PDF file of your document after setting up a “dummy printer.”
- Add a new “dummy” printer that can be used as the default printer.
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- Open your Macintosh computer’s System Preferences (via the Apple icon in the upper left corner of the screen).
- Click the Print & Fax icon in your System Preferences.
- Click the + sign in the bottom left corner to add a printer.
- Click on the IP icon at the top and then make sure it reads “Line Printer Daemon - LPD”.
- In the Address section, type in the number 11.1.1.11, and then you will see “Generic Postscript Printer” at the bottom.
- Click the Add button.
- This should now show up in the list as the Default Printer
- Once you are done setting up the ”dummy printer”, open Finale.
- Go to the File menu >> Print.
- Select the Preview option in the Print window to open Macintosh’s Preview application.
- When Preview opens, you will see your music. Go to the File menu >> Print in the Preview application.
- Choose your Brother Printer and click Print to print your document.
Hope you guys find this helpful. Happy belated Birthday to Finale!!
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On Dec 10, 2008, Nick said:
Damn Finale is so full of bugs that they just don’t fix. I just noticed a brand new wonderful bug for Finale 2009 - when you play back music and stop and start a few times with the playback controls it gets out of tune. I’m not sure if it stops transposing or just detunes it all.. restarting finale solves it until next time. FU*K YOU makers of Finale. Seriously, get it together and fix your damn bugs in your stupidly expensive program.
On Dec 10, 2008, Nick said:
ahh lovely..and i see they still havent fixed the bug where sometimes when you extract parts from a score the last page of each part has a bunch of staves on top of eachother.
On Dec 13, 2008, Nate said:
yeah I’ve got the same playback - out of tune thing. mostly its the lower staff that plays a semitone out. and the more times you play it back the more it goes out…. hopefullly after 12 runs it goes back in tune again =s
On Dec 13, 2008, Nate said:
and THANK YOU SOOO MUCH for providing this piece of info or i would have nooo idea how to get around it. thank you!