Duplicates of Paragraphs when importing masterpages

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Hi

I know this has been discussed before but I can’t find that post now. Somewhere Daniel stated that this was a bug that should have been fixed in the latest release, so now I’ve spend some time creating a bunch of new master pages, but the problem still exists with duplicates of Paragraph styles.

This is how I’ve done:

  • I’ve created a couple of new Paragraph Styles and saved them with the Star button. I’ve tested those new Paragraphs by creating new projects, and they are there.
    After that I created a bunch of Master Pages for my different needs and exported them. All done from a new default document in 3.5.1
    When importing the master pages a bunch of duplicates of the Paragraphs shows up in the Paragraph dialogue.
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The original thread was here.

When you export master pages, any user-defined paragraph styles will be included in the exported master page definition, even if they are already present in the user library (i.e. you’ve clicked the star to save them as defaults for future projects). Dorico doesn’t know whether you’re going to import those master pages on your own computer or send them to somebody else, so it has to include everything it’s going to need to show those pages correctly, including those paragraph styles. When you then import the master pages, Dorico doesn’t know whether or not the existing styles in your library are the same or different, despite having the same name, so it imports the paragraph styles from the master page library so that it can be sure of showing them correctly.

In future we expect to introduce finer control over these kinds of decisions when you import library items, but for the time being there’s no way to control this.

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Oki, got it. Thanks! :slight_smile:

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I have been posting about this earlier but can’t find that post right now.
When importing my custom page template sets I always get a bunch of duplicate paragraph styles. Is this something you’re working on?
I guess this happens when using the same paragraph multiple times or when there are line breaks.

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This is addressed in Dorico 5, but you will need to re-export and re-import your page templates to benefit from the improvements in this area.

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Thanks for extremely quick response! :heart:

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This issue has now re-entered Dorico. When importing my custom Master pages I get a bunch of duplicate paragraph styles. They show up eventhough I’ve deleted all duplicates, checked the star and re-exported the Master pages from D6.
Anything I’m doing wrong or is it D6 that is doing something wrong?

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We’ll need more information in order to investigate. Please prepare a minimal project that exhibits the issue and upload it here, together with the steps required to reproduce the problem.

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Thanks for quick reply @dspreadbury !

In the attached zip-file you’ll find 3 files:

  1. My default file. It’s empty and just created and saved.
  2. The same file with my Score master page template imported
  3. The Score master page template.

This is pretty much the steps I’ve taken.
The template is edited in and exported from D6.

And btw, wonderful update! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Cheers
Files.zip (2.6 MB)