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Mike Rosen
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| Posted 7/8/2011 7:10 PM (GMT -6) |   | Set up the file the way you want it. Save As... and choose Finale Template File (.ftm) as the file type. Save it wherever you want it, and it will be there.
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Mike Rosen
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Mike Rosen
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| Posted 7/8/2011 8:51 PM (GMT -6) | | They stripped that out of PM, too?
I swear, every time I hear about this sort of thing, it makes me more furious at the way they have emasculated (no offense meant to the ladies) this once quite adequate program. If I were you, I would see if they will take it back, and you should buy SongWriter 2010. Hurry, before they screw that one up, too. Just remember to save all of your work as an XML, so you can open it in SW.
As another workaround, set up the document and save it as a .mus. You can still use it as a template. Just remember to Save as... immediately after opening, before you enter anything at all. Then, make your changes, save it again, and away you go.
Mike Rosen
www.specialmillwork.com
WebMaster and bass for the Seattle SeaChordsmen www.seachordsmen.org
Bass for What's Cookin' www.whatscookinvlq.com
FINALE TIPS at www.specialmillwork.com/finaletips.htm
Print Music 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010; Finale 2010b, 2011b
Simple Entry, QWERTY keyboard. That's my system, and I'm stickin' to it.
Favorite reference: Essential Dictionary of Music Notation, Gerou & Lusk, 1996
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Jim Coull
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| Posted 7/9/2011 1:36 AM (GMT -6) | | "They stripped that out of PM, too?"
Mike, the .ftm file type has never been used in any of the Mac versions of Finale or its children products - it is a Windows only thing, so it hasn't necessarily been taken out of PM.
Margo, just save the file with a name like Piano Template.mus. When you start a new project, open the file and save it as whatever name you want - the original template will remain as is.
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Peter West
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| Posted 7/9/2011 7:10 AM (GMT -6) | | If the person ONLY uses this kind of layout, then set up the Finale Default File with all of those things in place, also page layout, printer setup, all libraries of shapes and text, font settings,. In fact everything. Line thicknesses, dash settings in smart shapes. The list goes on. Save the file back in the same place with the same name.
Now, when you launch a default file, or open a new file in the file wizard, it will have all of this in place.
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Mike Rosen
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| Posted 7/9/2011 8:46 AM (GMT -6) | | Jim Coull said...
"They stripped that out of PM, too?"
Mike, the .ftm file type has never been used in any of the Mac versions of Finale or its children products - it is a Windows only thing, so it hasn't necessarily been taken out of PM.
Margo, just save the file with a name like Piano Template.mus. When you start a new project, open the file and save it as whatever name you want - the original template will remain as is.
Jim Coull
Jim,
Thanks! I feel a little better, now. 
Mike Rosen
www.specialmillwork.com
WebMaster and bass for the Seattle SeaChordsmen www.seachordsmen.org
Bass for What's Cookin' www.whatscookinvlq.com
FINALE TIPS at www.specialmillwork.com/finaletips.htm
Print Music 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010; Finale 2010b, 2011b
Simple Entry, QWERTY keyboard. That's my system, and I'm stickin' to it.
Favorite reference: Essential Dictionary of Music Notation, Gerou & Lusk, 1996
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Dr. Wiggy
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| Posted 7/9/2011 8:49 AM (GMT -6) | | Jesper Hendze said...
PS: pre-OS X files had file extensions, but at first they were hidden per default. During OS 9 they became common, as exchange with Windows became a frequent task. You can hide file extensions in OS X too, but now they are on per default.
Not quite true.
In Classic Mac OS, File types were defined by 4-byte meta-data in the Resource Fork, for both file Type, and Creator (associated app). (e.g. TIFF, 8BIM for a Photoshop TIFF.)
You could add .doc, .jpg etc if you wanted to a file, but the OS didn't use that information. It was useful if you transferred the file to a Windows filesystem, as no other OS uses Resource Forks. An incoming file with a known extension would have Type and Creator metadata mapped to it.
In OS X, the system recognised both old Type/Creator metadata AND filename extensions. So you could have a file without an extension, and it would still be defined by Type/Creator metadata. However, file extensions took priority. Changing the extension changed the metadata. You can hide file extensions in the Finder, but this is purely a cosmetic feature.
Snow Leopard changed things a bit. Type/Creator metadata is now ignored and not maintained. In their place, it uses UTIs (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Type_Identifier) which are metadata strings of the form "public.html", or "com.adobe.postscript-font". File extensions are assigned to UTIs. The problem with this is that all "public.text" files are associated to one default app.
But I digress.
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Peter Thomsen
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| Posted 7/9/2011 8:49 AM (GMT -6) | | Peter West said...
If the person ONLY uses this kind of layout, then set up the Finale Default File with all of those things in place, also page layout, printer setup, all libraries of shapes and text, font settings,. In fact everything. Line thicknesses, dash settings in smart shapes. The list goes on. Save the file back in the same place with the same name.
Now, when you launch a default file, or open a new file in the file wizard, it will have all of this in place.
Actually, in later versions of Finale there are two copies of the Default File:
one copy for File menu > New > Default Document (= Maestro Font Default in the folder Default Files, unless you choose otherwise in Program Options)
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one copy for File menu > New > Document With Setup Wizard... (= Engraved Style in the folder Document Styles)
But if you copy the same (template) document to both locations (and name the two copies correctly), you will have "all of this in place" when you "launch a default file, or open a new file in the file wizard".
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Jack Clark
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| Posted 7/9/2011 1:07 PM (GMT -6) | | Mike Rosen said...
As another workaround, set up the document and save it as a .mus. You can still use it as a template. Just remember to Save as... immediately after opening, before you enter anything at all. Then, make your changes, save it again, and away you go.
Yeah, this is what I do. You can save a lot of characteristics in a .mus template, including hidden staves and playback options.
And it's a good idea to make a few backup copies of your .mus-file template, too, in case you forget to immediately save it after opening it to use to make a new score.
Jack
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Mike Rosen
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| Posted 7/9/2011 1:23 PM (GMT -6) | | Motet said...
So I gather if you same something as a template, any notes you have entered will be saved as well? Ideally I would want to save everything but.
As you build up your repertoire of expressions, articulations, etc., over time, how do you get these into your template? I've found the saving and loading of libraries to be problematic--mainly, it seems to create duplicates.
Notes are the only thing that you don't save. If you've already done a piece, and you have everydamnthing just the way you want it (expressions, artics, etc.) save a copy, erase the notes, lyrics, and smart shapes, and you have a template.
If you create a new expression that you want in your template, if you started with the old template, just save the new one. Or save them both.
Mike Rosen
www.specialmillwork.com
WebMaster and bass for the Seattle SeaChordsmen www.seachordsmen.org
Bass for What's Cookin' www.whatscookinvlq.com
FINALE TIPS at www.specialmillwork.com/finaletips.htm
Print Music 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010; Finale 2010b, 2011b
Simple Entry, QWERTY keyboard. That's my system, and I'm stickin' to it.
Favorite reference: Essential Dictionary of Music Notation, Gerou & Lusk, 1996
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Mike Rosen
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Date Joined Feb 2006
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| Posted 7/9/2011 4:41 PM (GMT -6) | | That works, too.
Mike Rosen
www.specialmillwork.com
WebMaster and bass for the Seattle SeaChordsmen www.seachordsmen.org
Bass for What's Cookin' www.whatscookinvlq.com
FINALE TIPS at www.specialmillwork.com/finaletips.htm
Print Music 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010; Finale 2010b, 2011b
Simple Entry, QWERTY keyboard. That's my system, and I'm stickin' to it.
Favorite reference: Essential Dictionary of Music Notation, Gerou & Lusk, 1996
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