I hope this information will be obsolete within a few days, but having done the research, I’d like to help out any other Mac/Sibelius users out there.
If you’re upgrading to Leopard and still using Sibelius 4, you’ll need to get a compatibility patch from Sibelius. Unless, that is, you don’t need to be able to, uh, open and save files.
If you’re upgrading to Leopard and using Sibelius 5, and prefer not to have it crash upon startup, you’ll need this compatibility patch. Also, Sibelius has a suggestion for you if you’re experiencing screen redraw weirdness.
If you encounter strange screen redrawing behaviour during mouse input on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, e.g. when moving the shadow note over the staff, choose Sibelius > Preferences, go to the Textures page, and switch on Alternative texture drawing.
But the big one, that’s making me think twice about rushing to get Sibelius 5, is that none of the Sibelius Sounds installers work. More on that here.
I’m confident that Sibelius will sort all of these things out very quickly, though. They’re good.
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