The Graphics Tool
In addition to adding text to your document,
you may also wish to include a graphic element (a company logo for example)
which has been created in a graphics program. Or, in a totally different
vein, you may wish to export a Finale-generated musical example into a
word processing application. Both the importing and exporting of graphics
is performed with the Graphics Tool.
Let’s start by exporting an example of
our piece.
- Press
the Home key or use the horizontal and vertical scroll bars to navigate
the upper left of the page.
- From
the View menu, choose Zoom and specify 100%.
- For
Windows, click on the Window menu and choose Advanced Tools Palette.
Another palette appears docked to the top of the window.
- Select
the Graphics tool .
- Double-click
and drag-enclose the pickup measure of Auld Lang Syne: Place the mouse
pointer up and to the left of the first measure. Double-click the
mouse, keeping the button pressed down after the second click, then drag
the mouse down and to the right until a diagonal rectangle has enclosed
the pickup measure on the screen: now release the mouse button (the dotted
outline should remain on the screen). When you selected the Graphics Tool, a Graphics
menu appeared towards the right side of the menu bar at the top of your
screen.
- From
the Graphics menu, select Export Selection. (Note: if Export Selection
is grayed out, you haven't successfully drag-enclosed)
The Export Selection dialog box allows you
to determine what graphics file format you wish to export. The decision
of which format you choose will be based on what kind of printer you have
(an EPS file will work properly ONLY with PostScript printers) as well
as what file formats are accepted by the word processing or desktop publishing
application you wish to bring the Finale example into.
- Next
to Type, choose TIFF from the drop-down list. (This file type will
work with any printer and is generally cross-platform.)
- The
next item in the dialog box refers to which pages you wish to export.
Since we chose Export Selection from the Graphics menu, and not Export
pages, this is not applicable to our example, but keep in mind that you
could export entire pages without needing to drag-enclose the page.
- Under
File Names, select “Prompt for each name” (if it’s not already selected).
This instructs Finale to ask us what we’ll want to name our file. You’d
choose Generate Names if you wanted Finale to generate a file name automatically.
Postscript Options are only applicable to EPS
files, so these items are grayed out because we chose TIFF as our file
type.
- Next
to Resolution choose 300 from the drop-down list. You typically
would want to choose a resolution which matches the resolution of your
printer: for example, if you have a 600 dpi printer, you’d want to choose
600. If you're not sure of your printer's resolution, 300 is a good guess.
If you choose a resolution higher than your printer’s capabilities, the
resulting file will be larger than necessary, and this could cause complications
when printing. A resolution less than that of your printer’s capabilities
will simply result in a more jagged printout. Note that this option is
not available if you chose EPS as your file type.
- Click
OK. The Save TIFF dialog box will appear, allowing you to name
your file and determine where it will be located.
You’ll want to remember where you’ve saved
this file for future reference.
- Make sure your Finale 2010 folder is specified. For the purpose of this tutorial, we will use the default Finale directory; if you have changed this folder name (or are using a different version of Finale) please replace references to Finale 2010 throughout this tutorial with the name of your Finale folder.
- Enter
“tut4picture” in the File Name field, and click Save. This file
can now be imported into any desktop publishing or word processing application.
You will want to look in your specific desktop publishing or word processing
manual for the exact steps for importing a graphic: typically this is
referred to by the terms Place or Insert.
- Now
that you’ve created a TIFF file, we’ll import the same file back into
Finale. While importing Finale examples into Finale is not necessarily
something you’d commonly do, the procedure would be the same if you were
importing any other type of graphic like a company logo or letterhead.
- Click
anywhere on the screen to remove your previous selection.
- From
the Graphics menu, choose Place Graphic. (you could also double-click
on the document window—in Page View—where you'd like the graphic to appear).
The Place Graphic dialog box is where you specify
the graphic item you wish to import: in this tutorial we'll use the file
you saved moments ago.
If your Finale 2010 folder is not already chosen, select it now.
- Click on tut4picture once to select it, then click the Open button. At the bottom, for File Type, be sure .TIF is selected.
Since you chose Place Graphic rather than double-clicking
where you wanted the graphic to appear, Finale is awaiting instruction
for placement of the graphic.
- Place
the cursor where you want the upper left-hand corner of the graphic to
appear and click the mouse. Your graphic will appear. You can click
on the graphic to drag it elsewhere or drag one of the handles to scale
it horizontally or vertically.
For more information, see the Graphics
Tool in the User Manual.
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