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Is the Jazz font a PostScript or TrueType font?
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When I download the Jazz or Swing fonts and click on the downloaded file,
nothing happens. (Macintosh)
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When I load the Jazz Dynamics Library, the middle size crescendo doesn't
show up. I can't find the keystroke either.
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Are the crescendos smart shapes or fixed size?
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When using the JazzCord font for chords, the accidentals are not showing
up properly.
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Multi-measure rests show up on screen, but don't print.
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When using the JazzCord font, I am unable to edit the chords -- No handles
appear for editing.
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After I install the fonts and select Jazz as the default font, what
I get is gibberish.
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Rehearsal
letters show up on EVERY line on the score!
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Why do the ties appear differently than normal?
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While in Page View, the music does not appear on the screen, yet it
does while in Scroll View.
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The key signatures print
a 4th too high.
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What size do you recommend for chord suffixes?
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I
get@ an inch of space between the bass note and the chord.
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Articulations and dynamics libraries did not seem to affect playback.
- Tuplet
brackets don't look handwritten.
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Is there a keymap available with all the characters and their keystroke
equivalents available?
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Is there a way to get rid of the parentheses around the common-time
symbol?
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I don't understand
how to enclose text in boxes,
underlining, or overlining with side enclosures, etc.
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I am having trouble with the multimeasure
rest. It comes out as a diagonal line.
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When I try to print, I get a error message
saying "not enough memory" or something to that effect.
Is the Jazz font a PostScript or TrueType font?
The Jazz and Swing fonts are only available as TrueType fonts.
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When I download the Jazz or Swing fonts and click on the downloaded file,
nothing happens. (Macintosh)
The file you downloaded is a self-extracting-archive (.sea) Although it's
self-extracting, you may have to have Stuffit Expander installed on your
computer to extract the fonts and other files. You can download this software
free from http://www.stuffit.com. Once
the files are extracted, you can install the fonts onto your system just like
any other font.
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When I load the Jazz Dynamics Library, the middle size crescendo doesn't
show up. I can't find the keystroke either.
You probably have either an old Jazz Dynamics library or an
old version of the Jazz font, or BOTH! To obtain the updated libraries,
you may download them from this web site.
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Are the crescendos smart shapes or fixed size?
The crescendos are actually font characters, so they are fixed
in size. There are three different sizes; short, medium and long, with
the longest covering about a measure. You don't usually see longer crescendos
or decrescendos drawn out in jazz charts.
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When using the JazzCord font for chords, the accidentals are not showing
up properly.
You probably have the wrong font selected for chord accidentals.
Make sure you are using the JazzCord font. This is because the accidentals
are located in a different place than in the Jazz Font. If you desire to
use another font for chord accidentals, you can select the characters you
wish to use in the Options/Select Default Fonts.../Cord Accidentals...
menu.
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Multi-measure rests show up on screen, but don't print.
This problem is usually solved by selecting 'Print TrueType
fonts as graphics' in your printer setup. If this doesn't do the trick,
your problem may be related to the printer driver. It's possible that the
current printer driver is an older version (or in some cases, a newer version
that doesn't work as well as the older one). Sorry I don't have any specifics
on your setup, but I would say start with contacting your printer dealer
and see if there is an updated version of the printer driver, and if you
already have the most recent version, try an older version. Sometimes newer
software has certain bugs that the older doesn't have. You might even be
able to down load the driver you need from your on line service.
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When using the JazzCord font, I am unable to edit the chords -- No handles
appear for editing.
The reason no handles appear for editing is that each suffix
in the library is actually a character from the font. Editing one of these
suffixes would be like trying to edit the letter 'A'. To work around this,
you can create your own chord suffixes using individual characters form
the font. All of the letters, and punctuation you need are also included
in the font.
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After I install the fonts and select Jazz as the default font, what
I get is gibberish.
Go into the Options menu and choose Select Default Fonts. Simply
select Jazz 24 as the music font.
Troubleshooting: For reasons unknown to me, switching
the default font may require a third step. You may need to save, close
and re-open the file in order to see the new font correctly on your screen.
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When I tried to make your enclosed rehearsal letter "A" a score expression
which would only show up (on the score) on the lead alto/tpt./bone/parts,
it would always show up on EVERY line on the score. I know I'm doing the
right steps, because this is something I've done in over twenty other scores.
Any clues as to why this would happen?
It appears that the option 'Display Expressions For Extracted
Parts' is selected in your version of the Document Settings library. There
are two things you need to do to fix this. One is to select the staff tool
and click on a staff to open the Staff Attributes dialog box. Under 'Items
to Display', make sure 'Score Expressions' is not selected. Second, go
to the Options/Document Settings/Document Options... and uncheck the box
that says 'Display Expressions for Extracted Parts'. Now your score expressions
will only show up where you specify.
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Why do the ties appear differently than normal? Is there a spacing tweak
which you've applied in the Jazz Default File which I'm not aware of?
I have tweaked some of the PostScript options in an attempt
to make the ties look more hand written. If you wish to change these settings
or delete them all together, you can do so in the Options/Document Settings/PostScript
Options...
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While in Page View, the music does not appear on the screen, yet it
does while in Scroll View.
This is because you have 'Special Part Extraction' selected.
To fix this, go to the Edit menu and deselect 'Special Part Extraction.'
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The key signatures print a 4th too high. (Bb winds up on the Eb space,
etc.) I installed and copied everything as per your instructions for the
'Windows' version. Any suggestions?
Problem = Screen accidentals are transposed up a P4; print
is garbled unless you select "Print TTF as graphic" under print options.
Solution = If you're using the Adobe Type Manager: try disabling
the "use bitmap" option. If that doesn't work then disable the ATM altogether
and add the line "FontScaleMode=1" under the settings heading in your "finale.ini"
file. (0 = Finale sizes bitmaps, 1 = Windows scales bitmaps, 2 = Windows
substitutes closest TTF)
Some of this is detailed in the readme file in Finale.
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What size do you recommend for chord suffixes?
I recommend size 18, though some people like their suffixes
a little larger.
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If I try to put alternate bass note under (not slash) the chord I get@
an inch of space between the bass note and the chord.
This is because some of the characters in the JazzCord font
have unusually high vertical coordinates. You can work around this by selecting
JazzText as your Chord Symbol font instead of JazzCord. It's basically
the same font, only without all the suffixes, so you can just use JazzCord
for the suffixes and JazzText for the Chord Symbols.
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I noticed that your articulations and dynamics libraries did not seem
to affect playback. For example, forte, piano, etc. do not affect velocity.
Also, some of the articulations are not 'smart' in that they do not flip
automatically depending on the direction of the stem.
You have an older version of the articulation library. You
can either change the settings in the articulations yourself or you can
download the updated library from this web site.
One other thing you can do is to load the articulation library that comes
with Finale and then change the default music font to Jazz. This will change
all the articulations over to the Jazz Font with all the playback options
intact.
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After finishing a brass septet swing arrangement I was able to get all
elements to look handwritten except for two: the left staff bracket and
the tuplet bracket. Both of those brackets still look "too perfect" and
to me, it would be desirable to have a more crafted look. Did I overlook
any method to achieve a handwritten look to brackets?
These two elements are controlled by Finale and are not affected
by the Jazz font.
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Is there a keymap available with all the characters and their keystroke
equivalents available?
Yes. You can download this file from this
web site.
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Is there a way to get rid of the parentheses around the common-time
symbol?
Yes. Go to the Options/Document Settings/Time Signature Options...
menu and click on the Select... button next to where it says 'Abbreviate
Common Time to'. You want to select character # 100 rather than #99.
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I don't understand the documentation
with regards to using special characters, i.e. enclosing text in boxes,
underlining, or overlining with side enclosures, etc.
Actually, the documentation is my best attempt to explain how
to use the brackets. My only other suggestions are to go into a word processor,
type in some of the bracket characters, and see what they do. Type in some
of the examples. For example, to bracket the word example, you would type
the following characters using the JazzText font: {_E_x_a_m_p_l_e} The
brackets on the end are end enclosures and the underline dashes are the
lines that connect the two ends. If the connecting lines don't quite cover
the distance from letter to letter, you have to select longer ones. The
documentation provides the keystrokes for all of the bracket characters.
Now with this in mind, you will have to spend some time and figure out
which characters you like to use the most.
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I am having trouble with the multimeasure
rest. I am using shape number one. It comes out as a diagonal line. Can
you help?
First, load in the Jazz Rest library. Next go to Options/Document
Settings/Multimeasure Rest... For the shape, next to the Shape... button,
change the number to '0', then click on the Select... button. You will
see the choices of shapes to choose from. Double click on the desired shape
to select it, and your ready to extract the parts. The shape you selected
will appear as the multimeasure rest in the extracted parts.
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When I try to print, I get a error message saying
"not enough memory" or something to that effect. This occurs particularly
when trying to print documents using the JazzCord font.
You probably don't have enough printer memory. The JazzCord
font in particular is a rather large font, and when your computer tries
to download the fonts to the printer, it is running out of memory. Chances
are, if your printer has only a couple of megabytes of RAM, that won't
be enough. You will have to upgrade to 4 or 5 megs.
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