v6.7 [Jul 28, 2016]
-Version 6.7 adds a new menu item for Dolet Preferences when running in Finale 2014.5. You may set preferences for exporting different versions of MusicXML, exporting compressed or uncompressed files during batch export, and validating against the MusicXML DTD or XSD. This restores features that were dropped in Finale 2014.5 in version 6.6 while making them easier to access and use.
-Version 6.7 also adds preferences for silencing error messages during batch import and export and logging the messages to a log file instead. The log file option is the file name that is used within the folder being imported or exported. This option will silence messages from the Dolet plug-in, but not messages from Finale that may occur when reading in files.
- Noteheads from Finale’s Use Note Shapes feature are now exported from Finale 2012 and later.
- Noteheads in percussion parts that use the default percussion font (added in Finale 2012) are now exported correctly.
- Time and key signatures now export correctly when forced on with the “Always Show” settings in the measure tool.
- Key signatures now export correctly when forced off with the “Always Hide” setting in the measure tool. Time signatures were already exporting correctly with this setting.
- Exact duplicate slurs and articulations are no longer exported from Finale.
- Text inserts are exported more reliably when placed in the middle of a text block or expression.
- Jazz font characters 150 to 157 are now exported as MusicXML jazz articulations.
- Scoops and plops occuring before notes are exported more reliably, rather than as doits and falloffs.
- Doit, falloff, scoop, and plop characters in the Jazz font are now imported at a more readable size.
- Accidental text inserts in Finale text blocks are exported more reliably.
- Single-measure measure-attached smart shapes are now exported more reliably.
- Expressions that display on a single layer are exported more accurately.
- Laissez-vibrer ties are exported more accurately in single-voice music.
- Exporting to earlier versions of MusicXML no longer produces a warning message when using recent versions of Java on Windows.
- Shape expressions with executable shape playback no longer export incorrect playback data.
- Piano pedal lines now export on the last staff of a part, including single-staff parts and parts with more than 2 staves.
- Tacet files with no measures can now be exported.
- Some dashed brackets entered as two separate smart shapes in Finale across a system break will now be exported as a single MusicXML bracket.
- Finale no longer exports extraneous spread values of zero at the start of crescendos and the end of diminuendos.
v6.5 [Dec 11, 2014]
- Adds support for exporting music created with a Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL) default music font from Finale 2012 and 2014.
- Hidden articulations are supported during export starting with Finale 2014b.
- Piano pedal line support is improved for greater Finale 2014 compatibility.
v6.4 [Nov 20, 2013]
Version 6.4 adds support for Finale 2014, including the new features for keyless scores and keyless parts (hide key signatures and show accidentals). It also adds the following features and fixes:
Expressions with playback set to begin at the alignment point are exported at the correct position in the measure.
Expression import now differentiates between playback set to being at the measure position or at the alignment point.
Braces and brackets on single-staff groups are now imported.
More "supports" elements are exported so other applications understand that Finale exports all accidental, beam, and stem data.
A mimetype file has been added to compressed MusicXML files to make it easier for programs to distinguish MusicXML files from other compressed files.
Lyric word extensions now import more accurately.
Multiple lyrics per note in the same verse/chorus/section at the same exact height are now exported correctly.
v6.2 [Dec 2, 2011]
- In a non-percussion staff, the notehead element is no longer imported when the notehead value is normal and the filled attribute is not specified.
- Export no longer crashes when the assigned layer on an expression is an unexpected value.
