Using Dorico 6 pro, I have just printed an oldish score (2022) and have noticed that the title ( in the title page) and instrument names (in the score) have printed as gibberish even though they display perfectly correctly on the screen. The title is in the ACADEMICO open type font.
Is this something to do with the introduction of opentype facilities in Dorico 6 that need setting up and if so, how do I get around it?
Les Miserables Medly CC.dorico (2.6 MB)
It looks ok here in a PDF.
Does a PDF look correct for you? Can you take a photo of the gibberish?
Are you on Windows? What are you printing to?
I’m not entirely sure what’s up but the frames with your LayoutName and ProjectComposer tokens don’t have a style specified:
Specify a style in those frames and see if things are corrected.
PDF’s appear OK. Here are photos. I am printing on a HP LaserJet 700 m712 which is my main printer. I’ll give it a try on my Brother MFC-J6910dw.
Did you reboot after installing? I had a similar problem which went away after a reboot.
Thanks Fred. But that is not the problem. Its just the same if I correct that omission.
Thank you all for your replies and interest. I have tried changing printers, removing title page and all the other suggestions to no avail. The solution, for the time being, is to print to print to PDF. Luckily my PDF software (PDF-Exchange Editor) will allow booklet printing which I will need - so no great trauma, but I would love to discover what the problem is at sometime.
You have a lot of other font weirdness going on too …
This Character Style should be a compatible music text font like Bravura Text:
You are using b’s instead of flats for all your transpositions:
If you fix the first issue, it’s easy to then fix the second:
The Project Composer doesn’t seem to have any font defined, on my computer.
Despite any errors or idiosyncrasies that may show up in my score, I do believe it is a Dorico 6 problem with fonts. I have just loaded the project in Dorico 5.1.8 and there are no problems at all in the printouts!
My understanding is that Windows, in general, expects every font to have a regular style, a bold style, an italic style and a bold italic style. No more, no less. For fonts that are missing any of these styles, Windows can synthesise font styles on screen. The problem comes when trying to export PDFs (the usual way: embedding the relevant characters of said fonts in the PDF so that the PDF can be scaled without loss of fidelity, as opposed to the PDF-printer way, which effectively turns everything into a bitmap image), as the font characters may not exist and thus can’t be embedded.
Dorico 6 prevents Windows from doing any of that.
The downside is that there may be some clean-up required when opening a Dorico <6 file in Dorico 6, but in theory it should be reasonably painless.
What you’re seeing is going to come down to what you’ve mapped when Dorico’s presented you with a Missing Fonts dialog. Unfortunately none of us can see that, and when we open Dorico if we’ve already handled these font mappings on our installations (for previous files of our own) Dorico will have saved and reused said mappings (though I’m sure at least a couple of us could figure out how to move our existing mappings out of the way).
Just confirming, you did reboot after installing D6 as @Pietzcker suggested, right? D6 does change a bunch of things with font handling, but the issues I mentioned above (no LayoutName and ProjectComposer styles in those frames, wrong Music Text font, etc.) are all still apparent when I open this in D5 too, so there’s definitely some font weirdness going on. I can’t replicate your corrupted printout issue on my system either as that appears fine, so I’m guessing there’s something specific to your system or printer going on.
Just confirming that this project is running on a windows 11 computer that I did reboot following Pietzcker’s suggestion. On the title page the only field that gets corrupted is the project title itself and in the file that I attached the style is set as Academico with a Regular style. Admittedly the project composer in Times New Roman is missing a style but this doesn’t seem to affect it printing quite normally. The other fields in the project that use Academico that are added by default such as instrument names, text etc are also corrupted. I haven’t altered any of the font settings myself at all.
The problem it appears to be the Academico font with Dorico 6, and not earlier versions of Dorico which is strange as this is the default font generated by Dorico (see Anthony Hughes tip June 25, 2019). If I change this to Acidemichords ( and other fonts that I use in my projects) the problem goes away.
The Dorico 6 installer will have installed new versions of Academico in your Windows Fonts – which means that Dorico 5 will also be using these ones too.
If that is the case, and there is a problem with the font, then I would have expected the corruption to have occurred when I printed from Doric 5 but that didn’t happen. It’s only the combination of Dorico 6 and the Academico font that causes the error. As I have said earlier I have tried on two completely different printers and the result is the same.
When you launch Dorico 6, then newly open your project, do you get a window with a warning about missing fonts?
No I don’t get any warnings but …
I am narrowing down the area that may be causing the problem.
I have tried my normal setup with a different project and still get the problem.
I have changed the printer driver and still got the problem.
I have reloaded Dorico 6 and still got the problem.
I have copied the project to my laptop which also has the latest Dorico 6 installed ; printing from there to any of my printers and the problem has disappeared so it appears to something linking Dorico 6, the Academico font and my machine ( 11th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i5-11400 @ 2.60GHz, 16GB ram running under windows 11.)
Any further insights gratefully received.