FINALE and DORICO

[cccdin]

I think it is necessary for Steinberg team to create a tool that the dorico can directly read the files of the finale, and not from XML file.

[ghellquist]

Welcome to the forum from another user, in no way any expert.

If you do a little search you will find that this has been asked for before. No need really to duplicate the wish list.

[JuergenP]

This has been answered several times in other Threads, including a posting from Michael Good, who created MusicXML

Astonished at Finale news!

MusicXML files actually contain more engraving details than Finale files. A lot of how Finale displays music is determined by the program, not saved in the file. MusicXML files save all this information that Finale files don’t contain. So not only would building a Finale converter be a huge amount of work, it would be a complete waste of time. It would make conversions worse, not better. Remember to check your Dorico preferences if you want to preserve Finale formatting information that Dorico…