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>I recently bought the music notation program Finale for Windows. 
>But i have some printing problems: if I print in the normal way
>(i.e. ms-windows prints the file) the solution is *really* very bad.
>(I've a deskjet 500 but this isn't 300dpi which I receive, perhaps
>150dpi!!)
>I've also tried to compile a Postscript listing and then to print
>it by Ghostscript, but sometimes I receive some errors of which I think
>that they're caused by Ghostscript.
>
>Does anyone out there has the combination of Finale(PC) and HP Deskjet
>running ? Do you have anyhints to get a better printing qualitiy
>(either by windows or Ghostscript) ??

I'm not using the DJ (using a Canon BJ-330 instead) but it sounds like what 
I used to get before I installed Adobe Type Manager. If you're not using ATM 
or PostScript, Finale uses a bitmapped font which is not very high 
resolution for printing and looks terrible. With ATM installed, Windows 
uses the Adobe Type 1 information to create characters scaled to the actual 
resolution your printer is capable of. The difference in appearance with & 
without ATM (which costs about $50 or so) is breathtaking. Unfortunately, 
the current version of Finale does not work with Win 3.1's TrueType, though 
_supposedly_ a version 3.0 to be released someday will.

If you're already using ATM, just ignore this...

Lamont Downs
downs@helios.nevada.edu

PS: With ATM installed, _any_ Type 1 fonts you install become available to 
_all_ your Windows applications, not just Finale (for example, WordPerfect 
for Windows).