PDFs

Noteman says: For information regarding advanced PDF features, please visit Adobe’s website at www.adobe.com.

The Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) was developed by the Adobe company to provide a universal file format that preserves the fonts, formatting and graphics of a source document, regardless of what platform or application was used to create it. PDF files can be shared, viewed and printed by anyone with a free Adobe Acrobat Reader. Many Finale users create PDFs to publish on the Web, email to a friend, to give to publishers for further formatting, or to give to a print shop for printing. Finale offers the ability to easily save pages or excerpts of your score as PDF documents.

Noteman says: PDFs exported from Finale are always opaque and are exported using an RGB color space.

To create a PDF document from a Finale file

In Finale, it's easy to save a PDF of your document, specific pages, or a specific region of your score. The following instructions explain how to export full pages using the Print dialog box. For instructions on exporting musical examples, see To export a selected region of music as a graphic.

1. Open the file in Finale.
2. Choose File > Print. The Print dialog box appears.

If your document contains linked parts, you are then asked to indicate which parts you would like to print. Select the desired parts/score and click OK.

3. Click the PDF button in the lower left and choose Save as PDF.
4. Give the file a name, select the destination and click Save.
5. OS X creates the PDF and saves it to the specified location.

To troubleshoot PDF documents

For complete information, see your Adobe Acrobat documentation.

Problem: When I run the Distiller, I get the error message “…[font name] cannot be embedded due to licensing restrictions.”

Solution: Update to the newest Acrobat Distiller version. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.