![]() Remind the user that this script uses GUI scripting, and that touching the mouse or keyboard while the script is running will probably cause unexpected results. End of Parameters which you should edit Enter "en" if you are using the English localization of Finale, "es" for Spanish. ![]() Since we are using GUI scripting, we need names of menus and menu items, which depend on the localization of Finale. If you always want to overwrite a previous PDF of the same name without asking, set the following to true (Annoyingly, Finale 2012 dirties a document after "printing" to a pdf.) If you want Finale to automatically save the document, to un-dirty it, after printing to pdf, set the following to "true". Property finaleAppName : "Finale " - name of application package Set this to whatever version/year of Finale you're using Property saveDirPath : "~/Documents/Music-Perf/Notation+MIDI/Titles(Notation)/ " Possibly starting with OS X 10.10.2, the "~" in the following no longer expands to your home folder. Set saveDirPath to the path to the directory you always save your PDF outputs saved to. Also now works with Finale 26 and macOS 10.11 Big Sur (Beta 6). If you were bored with OTR, or didn't get it, you will not enjoy this subtle intelligent movie.- Version: Substantially rewrote on 2020 09 06 to use Graphics > Export Pages instead ofįile > Print > Save as PDF. ![]() As a fan of Kerouac, I can say that there is so much good about this movie and it's straight forward attempt at delivering Kerouac's last important novel as a film, that I would recommend it highly to anyone that enjoyed "On the Road" as a film. She fits the role well, and plays out the heart-wrenching string aptly, as a character smart enough and jaded enough to cope with her fate. While undeveloped as a character, she does a fine job representing the last real thing left to hold onto. Kate Bosworth enters the movie halfway through the story and becomes the last lifeline that Kerouac throws away. Even Neal Cassady ultimately fades away at the end. The actors all do top-notch work, although some of the peripheral characters such as Lew Welch, Ferlinghetti, and Whalen seem to have no emotional connection to the main character or his problems. Polish mixes imagery well, establishes mood and atmosphere, and handles the semi-hallucinatory descent into alcoholic stupor with a pleasant restraint. None of this is bad, but it requires an acceptance of the source we are dealing with to accept such an extensive override of normal plot-driven movie storytelling. But, you can't help but think, wow-it's just not possible to make a conventional movie out of a Kerouac story, you must have excessive narration, because Kerouac was entirely about the words - the rhythm, the cadence, the explosion of images and alliterations. There it is: a dramatization of Kerouac's iconic writings, replete with tons of required voice-over narration of the jazz-based flowing verbiage that makes Kerouac Kerouac. If you are a fan, then we are confronted with another question: Is simply seeing the narratives underlying Kerouac's poetic stream of conscious writing brought to life worth dealing with the limitations of converting works of art that are not plot-based to film? Like "On The Road", "Big Sur" delivers a simple enough joy to the Kerouac fan. So we are left with a simple dividing line: do you know the work of Kerouac and the milieu of "The Beats"? If you don't, then this movie will seem odd and slow-paced, overwhelmingly pointless and pretentious. If the iconic road story that launched Kerouac into the literary firmament was rejected by the Superhero loving movie audience of today, what chance does a psychological internal monologue about an artist's descent into alcoholism have. Knowledge of who Kerouac was is limited in the TV age and his books, all fictionalized tales, yet autobiographical in nature (and to some a serialized mythology of an artist's life) are reduced to a cult-fan base in this era. It's impossible to discuss this movie without putting it in the context of "On The Road", which could not find an audience.
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