Has anyone here used Dorico to prepare charts for sale on ArrangeMe, preferably for large ensembles such as Marching Bands, Concert Bands, or Orchestras, where there is a size difference between the score and the parts (something that ArrangeMe advises against)? If so, how did you handle the situation? Did you create any templates that you might be willing to share?
I’m not sure what you mean, sorry.
Wouldn’t there have to be a difference in staff size? Or do you mean page size? Or orientation (this is what I can see via the website)?
Any of these are accessible in the Layout Options dialog. You can even select all the Layouts at once to apply the same settings:
The only think they advise against is having different layout orientations (ie- landscape and portrait) in the same file. They also prefer you can print at home, so that necessitates smaller page sizes, since most people cannot print 11x17, for instance.
The fact is, it makes no sense to try and print a large score (full score for large ensemble, that is) on tiny letter sized paper.
How you decide to handle this is ultimately up to you, and dependent on your genre.
Make a score layout that you’re happy with, and a part layout (same orientation) that you’re happy with. Generate them both, and combine them into one pdf. Make sure you leave 3/8” at the bottom for the watermark. That’s about all we can say, really.
I use it all the time with arrangeme for everything from piano to string quartets to small orchestra scores. For the larger ensembles I typically use 8x14, aka Legal, (so home printers can print it) for the score and 8x11 (letter) for parts. I’ve never had an issue or negative comment from anyone. For some smaller orchestra scores, with condensing, I can get scores to look good on letter size paper.
I think the reason they advise against different orientations is that they want to keep the upload limit to one pdf per title.
The help articles mention that the algorithm that places the watermark doesn’t cope well with different orientations in the same file.