Okay, here’s another dilemma for me. Not realising that you simply can’t add text to a page I eliminated the copyright text frame, or token, or whatever you call it, thinking that I could add it in later in the format that I need for a specific publisher. I go to project info, type in the copyright information and nothing appears on the (1st) page. Evidently it’s because I don’t have “token” to type it in. How put that token (or text frame, or whatever) back so that I can add coyright information?
I just answered a similar question from you in this thread.
Jesper
I tried that. I click on the “insert Text Frame” and nothing happens I try clicking on the page first then the I can and nothing happens. What am I missing?
Unfortunately, that’s only good at the top of the page. I need a text box, frame, token, whatever for copyright at the bottom of the page.
Then select the Insert Text Frame and draw a frame at the bottom of the page.
The copyright field is there as default for the first page.
Jesper
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If you did that on the page, you will have created a page ‘override’ – that is, a custom page that is no longer based on the template.
So first of all, remove the override in Engrave mode by right-clicking on the page icon and selecting “Remove Page Override”. The page will now be back on the template, which includes the text frame with the Copyright Token.
Tokens are really no different from Finale’s text Inserts, where you put the data in the Score Manager, and then added the field on the page. In Dorico, you put the data in the File Info dialog; and the only difference is that text has to be in a frame.
Of course you can add text to page. But as said, once you start altering the frames on the page, then it’s a custom page. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, of course.
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Perhaps the answer is to copy the music into a new default document that still has the original frames intact.
Thank you. I just figured that Dorico is so adverse to dragging that “drawing” a frame couldn’t be done. Many thanks.
What? You create a frame by dragging out a rectangle on the page – same as in any DTP or drawing app. I’d suggest that you spent some time watching as many video tutorials as you can find; because at the moment, it seems you’re making things more difficult for yourself than they need to be.
Dragging diagonally across the page to create a frame only makes one show up if both Δx and Δy exceed a certain threshold, which might make creating a narrow Copyright frame appear impossible. But once created, you can fine-tune the frame’s dimensions to be whatever you want.
Strange, I swear it used to be that way before, they must have changed it at some point.
One can always fine tune a frame’s position and dimensions in the Properties Panel.
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