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Launch Finale to see if the display problems are gone.

Reinstall the MakeMusic Font pack by repeating the steps at the beginning of this article.

To delete a font/font family, right-click or Control-click its name and choose Remove 'Font name'/ Remove 'Font name' Family.

Locate and delete all fonts from all MakeMusic font families in the above list.

Quit Font Book and re-launch Finale to see if the display problems are gone.

See above for a list of MakeMusic font family names.

If any of the duplicates are MakeMusic fonts, choose Resolve This Duplicate.

If any duplicates are found, choose Resolve Manually to review them individually.

Choose Edit > Look for Enabled Duplicates.

For more information, check this Apple Support article. NOTE: For macOS 12 Monterey or earlier, instead of the terms 'Activate' and 'Deactivate,' 'Enabled' and 'Disabled' are used.

Quit Font Book and relaunch Finale to see if the display problems are gone.

To activate a deactivated font/font family, right-click or Control-click its name and choose Activate 'Font name'/ Activate 'Font name' Family.

If any fonts or font families are deactivated, their names will appear gray and will be followed by the word Off.Īny fonts whose names contain the following are MakeMusic fonts: You can address both of these issues using the Mac OS application Font Book, located in the Applications folder. In other cases, the fonts may be enabled, but a duplicate copy of the font may also be enabled.

Launch Finale to check to see if the display problems are gone (If your fonts are still not displaying correctly please proceed to the OS-specific steps below)įont display issues in Finale for Mac may happen if one of more MakeMusic fonts are disabled.

Mac users may need to adjust their System Preferences if the font pack installer is blocked by Security & Privacy.

Once the download has finished, double-click the FontPack to reinstall your fonts.

If your browser prompts you, choose to Save this file.

MakeMusicFontsTT.pkg (Mac) or MMFonts.msi (Windows). Download the attached file for your platform at the bottom of this article. While this can happen for a number of reasons, it is often fixed by simply reinstalling the MakeMusic Font pack. This happens when Finale cannot locate the MakeMusic fonts on your computer. You may see question marks or odd looking symbols in place of the musical characters that should be in your music. From time to time musical symbols such as noteheads, clefs, and accidentals may be replaced by incorrect symbols.

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