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New Pori fonts for Sibelius/jazz chords

Egad! No! I'd be facing a full-on rebellion if I used a chord font like that. That's supposed to be better than what?
 
So it's a copy of Doricos copy of the real book font. Personally I only use handwritten styles for gimmicky use.
 
Because I play mostly jazz, and am mostly doing tons of sightreading of new/old charts, I personally don't like any 'handwritten' fonts from Sibelius or Finale for the notes. Not as easy to sightread as Opus, Helsinki, or Maestro (or maybe Finale's Broadway for certain types of music.)

Getting the staff sizing right helps too...like the 7.5 mm range for parts.

But for chord symbols, I find 'New Times' (or other fonts in that vein) lead to uncertainty, second-guessing, poorer performance than good old fonts like those out of the Sher Real Books, or even the good old Real Book.

The Pori seem to be a Sibelius improvement in this regard.
 
Note: am getting some weird printing problems with the slash bass not working in some scores.

Had to revert to another font to print out a lead sheet for last nights jazz gig.

I wish Sibelius had some of the Finale fonts to be easily used!
 
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