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Zuill
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| Posted 1/16/2014 1:41 PM (GMT -6) |   | EPUB with Finale is still in its infancy. Don't count on it. Stick to pdf and live with that until they decide to bring things up to par. I believe it is something they will improve when they resolve the bigger Finale issues.
Zuill
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Charles Lawrence
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| Posted 1/16/2014 3:31 PM (GMT -6) | | |
The problem is not in the epub document, but in the reader you are using. I had no trouble exporting one of my documents to epub and viewing it in an epub reader that is a plug-in for Firefox. http://www.epubread.com/en/
The extra pages referred to are any cover page/graphics desired, and an extended clickable table of contents. If desired, these can be added after Finale generates the epub document. The Finale EPUB engine (at this time) only creates a table of contents for the first page.
FYI, the epub document is really a ZIP file. Change epub to zip and view it in any zip archive reader such as WinZip. You will find html renderings of each page (p001.html, etc.) in the OEBPS directory. The table of contents file, toc.ncx, is really just an XML file that you can edit to add any additional clickable pages you want in a manner similar to the first page.
BTW: Adobe Digital Editions 2.0 suffers from the same font issue as you report. I'm not familiar with any other epub readers out there, like Sigil, etc. I think the reader intended for Finale generated epub documents is Apple iBooks.
PS: Thanks for the tip on Sigil. It's freeware. I just downloaded and installed it. It looks to be full featured and does not have the font issue reported. See, you can be nice.
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MikeBreitner
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| Posted 1/17/2014 1:47 AM (GMT -6) | | | had the same problem. first switched to pdf, now use sigil editor | | Back to Top | |
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Zuill
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| Posted 1/18/2014 12:55 AM (GMT -6) | | That's what gave me bad results with Finale epub exports. The thing is, shouldn't it be able to be read with all readers? Otherwise, it is not universally accessible.
Zuill
"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
Finale 2002b, 2003a, 2004b, 2005b, Win XP SP3, 2011b Win 7 64bit, 2012a Bought and Paid For (Hopefully soon 2012b with some of the MAJOR BUGS fixed--well, now with 2012b and some of the bugs are fixed) 2012c, with some bug fixes. 2014 now.
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Charles Lawrence
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| Posted 1/18/2014 10:27 AM (GMT -6) | | Even though EPUB is a "standard" and any device that reads/writes an EPUB document should conform to the standard, unfortunately there are some that are better at it than others, and I guess there is nothing that says an individual vendor cannot "add" their own "extensions", or interpret the standard in different ways, or not implement a particular "feature", thereby introducing inconsistencies and differences among readers. Just my 2¢.
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Keith B
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| Posted 9/14/2016 4:55 AM (GMT -6) | | These posts are way back in 2014. I've just updated to Finale 2014 (I know, I'm slow) and the export to epub is exactely what you all describe here. (exactly what sometimes happens when printing a pdf music file where the right fonts are not in place.) I'm going to try SIGIL - thanks - and I'll get a friend to try to read my exported file on her Iphone...
If there are any new things to know or to learn since you all talked about this in 2014, I'd be glad to hear from you.
Thanks
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