Copying graphic frame to First Page Template

Dorico
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I have a project where the composer inserted a graphic frame on the first page (as a page override) with the project logo. I would like to move that logo into the First Page Template so I can remove page overrides, but, as the manual says, you can’t copy frames into page templates. So if there’s not another way to do that, is the image stored anywhere in the project in a way that I could save to my drive and reimport?

Thanks!

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Hi @Stephen_Lamb, I don’t know (but I don’t think so) that the image original is recoverable from the Dorico Project itself.

One (not optimal) workaround would be, on a Copy of the Project (not sure if all steps would be necessary):

  • delete all the frames but the graphic frame with the image
  • set the page size very big, stretch the frame containing the image so big as possible (making sure the property Fit mode of the Graphic frame is set to Aspect Fit)
  • export the project as SVG
  • extract the desired picture of the SVG in a software like Inkscape or Illustrator, and save as .png. It will not be like the original, but very close.

(If someone has more advices about this workflow, please let us know).

Or just ask the composer to provide you with the original graphic file of the logo :wink:

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Depending on how the graphic file has been added to the project, you may be able to find it by looking inside the project zip file on disk. First, make a copy of the Dorico project in the Finder or Windows Explorer so you can be sure you’re not working on the original. Rename the copy to replace the file extension .dorico with .zip. You can then double-click the renamed file to expand its contents.

Now look inside the supplementary_data folder, and you should see a folder containing the imported graphics. If you only see a manifest XML file in there, then the graphic was imported in such a way that its data has been added to the project library directly, and it’s less practical to extract the data from there. In that case, you should see if you can get the original graphic from the person who sent the project to you, as Christian suggests.

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Thanks so much, Daniel. That did work. I was able to get the graphic from the composer, too, but had hoped to understand where it stores these, in the event I can’t get the original graphic. Nice to see that the file sizes of the graphic stored there and the original graphic are the same, too, so no loss of quality.