I have a number of Parts that I cannot print as this issue applies to many. I have enough room on page 1 for 1 or 2 more staves of music, but hey are not automatically moving into the available space. I crunched my page 1 systems closer together to make this obvious, but am I missing something? Shouldn’t Dorico move the top line from page 2 onto page 1, and then move the extra line from page 3 onto page 2?
Personally, I’d remove ALL those system breaks and let Dorico do its stuff. But…
It’s likely you have been manually messing with vertical spacing.
Try Engrave>Staff spacing>Reset Layout
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Dorico places systems into frames based on your settings (mainly page size, margin size, space size, and minimum gaps). If you manually move systems, Dorico does not take into account any extra space you create.
@Janus is right that you should start by deleting all those system breaks and resetting staff spacing. After that, if you want the music to fit onto two pages, you can try tightening up your note spacing (Layout Options > Note Spacing) and reducing your inter-system gap (Layout Options > Vertical Spacing > Minimum Gaps). With the right combination, Dorico will automatically flow things onto just two pages.
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I have a similar issue with Dorico 6.1.10. Dorico puts the last bar into a new page, but actually the first line on the 3rd page can fit one more bar, and thus subsequent bars could move up and fit the whole score within 3 pages. I tried to reset layout but in vain. How to fit it within 3 pages, is manual adjustment needed?
You could try to reduce the note spacing a little under Library→Layout Options→Note Spacing. Maybe 3 1/2
Jesper
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You are also losing valuable space by showing the abbreviated staff label (which is totally redundant for this layout).
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But can it, really? It may look like it to you, the human user. But given your current set of configured spacing options, the first line is already 70.7% full. Adding one more bar would likely push this way beyond 100%. That’s why it’s great to see those numbers there.
Remember: What Dorico considers “full” ist not based on what a human sees but what is configured in its options. When a system is 100% full, what this really means is that Dorico could fulfill all of its spacing rules when placing the content on one line. This does not necessarily mean that a human would also consider the line “full” and that it would be impossible to squeeze in one more bar. But Dorico works along configured rules, and when you want Dorico to do its spacing differently, you have to change those rules.
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That might not be desirable for the genre: pop and jazz charts often adhere to a strict 4 or 8 bars per system (or whatever the phrase length is), regardless of the inconsistencies in note spacing that arise from it.
Regarding the op: I’d reset the staff spacing for the part (as described elsewhere), and then use the “Make into frame” function to move at least one staff on the second page to the first page.
Slightly unrelated, but with the amount of systems that are overfull you might get a better-looking result by changing the note spacing (Layout Options > Note Spacing): I’d change the quarter note/crotchet spacing to 3.5 spaces (from the default of 4) and use a spacing ratio of 1:1.5. The former option will just generally tighten everything up, and the latter option will make the eighth notes have an even tighter spacing.
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