Finale 2007 - Vista Problems

This issue is actually fairly well documented on the Finale Help Forums (on MakeMusic's official site... it's free, too), you should be able to find your answers there.

As far as Vista compatibility, 2007 isn't supported, but if you right click your program icon and select Properties, you can use the "Run as Windows XP" function. I've had no problems with Finale 2007 and Vista (using this method).

Originally Posted by Mike

If by any chance you still have the XP installation disk that accompanied your old laptop, you could use that to install XP on your new machine. That would be cheaper than purchasing Finale 2008.

Having spent so much money on a new laptop I don't really want to stay still in the technological race. It may be more expensive, but I might just plum for upgrading to 2008.

And I've given that "Run as XP" thing but it doesn't seem to have gotten rid of the triangles. Bizarrely, what seems to work is deleting the brackets at the start of the stave.....

Well, I suppose it's up to you to make a judgment as to whether an £85/$170 bill is reasonable for sustaining your participation in the "technological race". I'd go for the cheaper option, personally. And it's far from true that the latest iteration of a particular piece of software is necessarily the best, or even downright necessary. But, like I said, it's up to you.

...hm. I got Finale 2007 for £30... this is going to set me back some.

Vista's giving me all sorts of problems. I can't record onto Audacity because it's recording it really fuzzy, and I can't save direct as MP3 from Finale for some reason.

For pieces with more than one instrument (in Vista) you'll need to use Studio view until the bug is solved.

I've got the same problem with a small amount of files with '07 in XP... so i think OS's not the cause of the nice blue shape.

I had 2003, then upgraded to 2007 2 years ago, and have just upgraded to a new laptop with Vista (my old laptop was dropped by my daughter and completely ruined). After installing 2007 on Vista, it would not let me get past the Registration step (Finale hang right after I got the "registration is finished" (or something like that). I had changed the Compatibily mode but it did not help.

I decided to spend $99 to switch to Sibelius instead of spending $150 to upgrade to 2009. It's a special promotion from Sibelius for Finale user. I've always hated the Finale's user interface anyway, especially with not being able to drag note(s) to change its pitch.

I get those triangles, too. I am running Finale 2006c with XP.

I have been running Finale 2006c with XP since Finale 06 was released and I never had this problem until about two weeks ago when I went to the MakeMusic website and downloaded the updates for the font libraries. That is when my problems started.

Originally Posted by 6dep

I've always hated the Finale's user interface anyway, especially with not being able to drag note(s) to change its pitch.

I drag notes to change pitch in Finale all the time...

So... multiple people have seen my post indicating that the blue triangles are a known issue and no one has bothered to go to the Finale site for the (simple) fix?

Or this a reading comprehension issue?