I’m relatively new to Dorico (coming from finale). I can’t get some graphics to show in the part that needs them, and I can’t add the graphics (fingerings) to the part. I’m using Dorico 5 on a Mac. The graphics are pngs. Here’s how the graphics look in the score:
Any advice would be welcome!
It looks like you added those as graphics frames, which are layout-specific – frames added to the score don’t appear in the parts. Frames also don’t move with the music, which means that if something causes this music to reflow, the frames will have to be moved by hand.
I think your best bet may be to create custom playing techniques that you can attach to the notes. If you select type Glyph when you create the technique, then when you edit the new technique you can insert your PNGs.
Thank you asherber! I eventually got something to work using that link, with a lot of trial and error.
I couldn’t figure out how to get rid of the text ‘new playing technique’, until I selected it and reduced its scale (X and Y) to 0.
My new graphic is a png on a transparent background, and it shows up in playing techniques as just a black area!
The instructions in the link you sent were helpful in getting started, but incomplete as to how to actually get an existing graphic (from my computer, not already in Dorico) into the Dorico playing techniques.
In case this helps anybody else: once you get to the second window, select graphic at the top (glyph was selected), then select choose–then you can search for what you want to add.
With that text selected, just click the trash can icon under the grid.
Hmm, when I use a transparent PNG, it works just fine.
Hi @Elizabeth_B, I think all the needed informations are there if you see the nearby paragraph(s) [just above the previous link]:
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Thank you so much, this is helpful! I’d managed to do this once, but couldn’t remember how I got there.
Thank you! Yesterday I couldn’t select the text I wanted to discard, but after I restarted my computer, it worked as you said above.
And I wasn’t clear…my png with a clear background shows up fine in my score; but it looks like the screenshot below (the black space between ‘experiment’ and ‘aeolian’) in the right side playing techniques menu. So if I have a number of fingerings as pngs with a clear background, it’ll be hit or miss when I want to choose one.
Is there a way to get one of these to show up in the right-side playing techniques menu?
Thank you again for the help!
You can always find the right one by using the shift-P popover. (It’s probably quicker too)
As @Janus indicates, the Shift+P popover is your friend here; just make sure you give each playing technique a distinct name in the Popover Text field in the Playing Techniques dialog. This is what Dorico uses in the popover to pick a technique to apply.
That works so well, thank you @janus and asherber! The name I’d put in does appear with the shift-P popover, problem solved!
In general, it is well worthwhile learning all the popovers (at least the syntax for those that you use most often)!
Will do!
