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From: laba-1aj@web-1d.berkeley.edu (John Kawakami)
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Subject: Re: NOTATOR vs. FINALE (mac)
Keywords: productivity
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Date: 4 Dec 89 21:30:25 GMT
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In article <4739@blake.acs.washington.edu> ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) writes:
>With NOTATOR and the *****  ATARI  LASER  ******  i can
>print a 7 page score in under 7 minutes...  and it looks  BEAUTIFUL!
>
>I am told by a colleague of mine who runs FINALE ... the much raved
>about notation package for the mac, that it can take as much as
>a FULL HOUR to print a SINGLE postscript page of music.
                               ^^^^^^^^^^
I realize this is probably not the right forum for this, but here goes:
    Over and over, I read people who point out how  s l o w  PS is. 
Sometimes, they are justified; PS is pretty slow if it has too little RAM,
a very complex image, bad code, etc.  But usually, people blame postscript
when the program generating the postscript is at fault.
    Now, I don't know anything about Finale, but I don't think something
as simple as a page of music should take more than a few minutes to print
(yes, that _is_ slower than the SLM; heh heh).  I suspect Finale is doing
one of two things: producing ugly, horrendous PS; or letting the printer
figure out how the page should be set and giving it just enough info to
let it grind the page out.  I'd bet my mother that it's the former.

>Unfortunately, i still know people who are buying macs for music..
>While ATARI at this time has the upper hand in music sales...
>they could easily clean up if they put some effort into getting 
>ATARI systems in the high schools and universities.. in studios etc..

I see lots of STs in music mag photos.  They are pretty popular.  But
there are not that many midi-ized musicians out there.

>for ATARI.  POINT:  "ATARI.. hurry up .. and get the TT out here!" 
>Unfortunately, timing IS a factor in the industry!

Yes, I agree.  And if you get the TT out there with an educational discount
and Unix, you might very well see a (somewhat) significant number of
university students taking out (even more) student loans to have Unix in
their rooms.  (If the TT were in the $2.5k range, I'd get it, fast!)

>-kevin
>ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu