Introducing Partita

Partita is now shipping!
A complete music font with a character set similar to Petrucci which captures the look and metrics of the SCORE notation program!

Partita has been designed as an alternate music font -- a replacement for Petrucci -- which gives Finale files the look of Score, a music notation program which runs under DOS and does not use fonts. The character set and basepoints of Partita are essentially similar to that of Petrucci, so that one can easily switch old files notated in Petrucci over to Partita. The example below uses Partita in place of Petrucci and Sonata, and supplements Partita with TempiFonts and ThesisFont.

Click on the graphic at left to FTP a PostScript rendering of the example to your local disk.

In addition to the convenience of using Finale rather than Score to notate files, Partita overcomes some of the disadvantages of Score -- problems which arise from Score's PostScript implementation -- which are discussed in a special white paper available here.

Partita has been designed with a character set and metrics similar to that of Petrucci, so that Finale documents notated in Petrucci may be easily switched over to and back from Partita at any stage of production. Instructions for switching music fonts in a document may be found in the Finale documentation.