Engrave mode question.

Dorico
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I am very excited about what the engrave mode can do! I’ve been playing around with the Dorico 2 Trial, and that mode alone justifies the program. As a teacher, the ability to quickly make relevant material for my students is great! The flow concept with the engrave mode has the ability to be a game changer for my self-made worksheets.

Is it in the plans to expand engrave mode to include things besides Text, Flows, and Graphics? It would be amazing if I could use lines or shapes. (I’ve found that I can with the glissandi lines, although that affects note spacing and is literally stretching the purpose of the line.)

Thank you.

Will Rhoden

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Lines are planned, but I don’t think the team has said when they are coming. I’m not sure about other shapes.

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We do plan to add more general drawing tools to Dorico in the future, but I’m afraid they are not imminent. You can do quite a bit with importing SVG graphics, which you can create in software like Inkscape (free and open source), Affinity Designer, or Adobe Illustrator.

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Thank you for the replies!