Opening a Finale File with a Previous Version of Finale
IWBNI it were possible to open a Finale file with a previous version of Finale. As it is now, when a Finale-2000 file is opened in Finale 98 or Finale 97, the following message is displayed:
Incompatible version, file [file_name].and the file is not opened.
This feature would allow users with different versions of Finale to collaborate.
This could be implemented by adding the file types Finale Binary File 97 (*.MUS) and Finale Binary File 98 (*.MUS) to the Save as type listbox on the Save As dialog box. The following warning message could be displayed when saving a file to one of these file types:
This document may use features that were not available in earlier versions of Finale. Any use of these features will be lost upon conversion to the earlier version.