When exporting graphics with Dorico, my custom bow-pressure playing techniques are rendered wrongly in the outcoming PDF (and thus changing the actual semantical meaning).
I have three symbols, two full black arrows for strong bow pressure (showing correctly), one full and one empty arrow for medium bow pressure (rendering the same as strong bow pressure) and two empty arrows for normal bow pressure (not rendering at all!)
I created them as normal graphical Playing Techniques.
Any ideas as to why? I have the rehearsals upcoming soon, and it would be great if I could provide a corrected version before to safe rehearsal time.
EDIT: exporting via macOS Print function and choosing PDF works fine - but I hope there would be another option as to doing this for every layout. (also I donât think pages dimensions will be remained then)
They are .svg graphics, and I have them from Christian Dimpker (author of âextended notationâ). He was offering some symbols for free on his website for some time, but it seems he took them down now, so I am not sure I am legally able to share the original with you here, if it would be necessary.
I created the playing techniques by adding graphics in the symbol editor for playing techniques.
You could try and resave them in a Graphics Program to make sure they are using the âTinyâ profile. Inkscape is free if you donât own a commercial vector graphics program.
After some more digging, I found out that it was actually me who created these symbols in Affinity, so I can share the faulty ones for Daniel to check, if he wants.
thank you so much @Craig_F !!
This is more than I ever couldâve asked for!
I will try them out for sure, but out of curiousity (since I now remembered, that I actually created these symbols myself), what are the settings I missed in Affinity Designer when exporting my .svg?
I donât see any options for a different profile. And I didnât hide/use any layers, but rather set the âfillâ property of my path, depending on the kind of glyph I wanted to create.
What I extracted from the PDF wasnât quite what your originals looked like. I just messed around trying different things. I think what I did was separate the paths, then did a subtract function on them,
Looking at your originals, I got rid of the Layer on the hollow arrow and so that is just a simple path. Try them out.
Adobe Illustrator has various profiles for SVGs. Affinity doesnât have them.
Thank you I will, as well as trying to figure out, how the layer got into the svg in the first place - again, I donât see why there should be something at all, but this would be for the affinity forumâŚ
Dorico is only able to handle SVGs that conform to the Tiny SVG standard. Itâs worth making sure your SVG is as simple as possible (so no transparency, no masks, etc.) and if your graphics application supports the Tiny SVG profile specifically, export using that.
