Joe -

Has there perhaps been a change in the font(s) that come with later versions of Finale? There are standard dimensions and offsets for the glyphs that most typesetting (including music layout) programs expect, but that not all fonts observe. If the program had it's own "homemade" font, and switched to a "spec standard" one for the "new" program - or the other way around, misplaced glyphs could easily happen. It could be just a matter of switching back to the "music font" that was used in the original program(?).

I think I recall that some of the advertising said that Finale comes with a couple of "optional fonts." You're supposed to be able to make your score look like jazz (pronounced sloppy-handwritten-scrawls) by using a different music font, etc. If there are options, you might try one of the other ones and see if the alignment is improved. If it is, you would know you could look for a different "formal" font.

Since the DT has an included font, you wouldn't expect problems; but I haven't tried printing much of anything since the Win version came out. I haven't seen reports of this problem with it.

Unfortunately, it's fairly common for font names to be "reused," and for slightly different glyph sets to have very similar names; so it's not always easy to tell if you have the one you think you have. - something that drives layout people up a wall on a regular basis. Windows will also always default to the TrueType version if you have both TrueType and Vector (Type 1) fonts with the same - or even "too similar" names, so visiting a web page that downloads (embeds) a TrueType "to let you read it the way they wrote it" can blow your whole setup if you're using a similarly named Type 1.

John