@eebiggs1
Please refrain from writing judgemental comments about the Team’s work. The special relationship between the Team and users in this forum is unique, and this includes mutual respect. We users cannot know the technical reasons behind a problem. Once the problem has been reported, all we can do is wait patiently and trust in the work of the developers, who are far from ignoring user requests, as they have demonstrated countless times over the years.
Nothing against the team, but if Qt can’t access something as simple and universal as the Windows print properties dialog, I fail to see how it qualifies as “cross-platform”.
I started exporting to PDF long ago in Finale, but only because creating booklet impositions was a pain, requiring hand calculating and ordering the pages properly. And, of course, the pages-to-print text field had a limited number of characters, so printing a booklet with more than 12 pages required multiple passes.
Workarounds suck, but I’ve done worse over the years…
There is little value in refining a precise definition of “cross-platform”. The team uses Qt to make Dorico available to macOS, Windows and iOS.
Not really my point. I’m saying it can’t be called cross-platform if it’s really not. And it’s not. It may be convenient for Mac and iPad, but not so much for the other half of us. Don’t blame the black box code for something it probably never claimed to do. Just tell us it can’t be done with the tools you chose.
I can accept that and work around the limitation.
I hardly call this constant “nagging”. I made my case six months ago. Someone else revived it and I got the notice of the reply. Spreadbury said it was not a top priority not me. Only repeating his words for any new person that finds this thread.
Not judging or disrespecting anyone but the facts are the facts.
Perhaps we should be complaining to the QT Group so that they add this ability. That’s where the logjam exists! 
— Jim
Aren’t both Sibelius and MuseScore written with Qt as well? I really know nothing about Qt and have no reason to doubt the developers, but IIRC (I’m on Mac now) both of those programs found a way around this limitation on PC. In fact, Dorico was literally the only DTP software I had that did have this limitation. As my standard part size is 9.5x12.5 and I often use 11x14 scores, I could never print directly from Dorico on PC, and always had to use the intermediate step of creating a PDF first. It’s not a new complaint (thread from Jan. 2021) so I’m sure PC users would love to see a solution to this.
I wouldn’t know about that! But if they have a workaround, it would be wonderful if the team could address it. (Again, I’ll plead ignorance to how complicated that might be!)
I ended up switching to a Mac (mini) because I got fed up with MS Win “breaking” things.
