Graphics - keeping them in place and re-proportionable

[Perthecomposer]

Ok, we definitely have a winner. Thanks everyone for your help with this! To make sure it’s all in one place (so when I’m searching for info about this problem in a year I can find it :), here’s a summary:

There are (at least) 3 ways to add graphics to a score:

1. Use a graphic frame - but this is attached to the page not the measure, so won’t adjust to changes in the score, and won’t work for parts.

2. Create a new playing technique and embed the graphic - this works fine, but when added to the score pushes everything out of the way. Existing items get pushed upwards, causing all kinds of problems.

3. Make your graphic into a line annotation and use it as the start cap of an invisible horizontal line - this seems to be the best way by far. It’s attached to the measure and it doesn’t push things out of the way.

The last tip was found here (thanks for pointing me to it YourMusic.Pro!):

Handling graphics

You could make your graphic into a line annotation and use it as the start cap of an invisible horizontal line. Then add this line where desired and set its placement property to inside staff. This property prevents the need for additional space above or below the staves containing the graphic: [Image] The graphic looks orange in my example because I took it from the third image in post #4.

Instructions on embedding a graphic as a line annotation:

A) Create a new Line Annotation:

1. open the Edit Line Annotations dialog (Library->Line Annotations…)

2. from the Category dropbox, select Music Symbol

3. create a new one (+ button at bottom) or duplicate an existing one

4. a new Edit Line Annotations dialog opens (that should probably be renamed, same name for two different types of windows…)

5. on the right, click the Graphic tab button

6. choose a graphic and customize size, etc.

7. close the window, returning you to the first Edit Line Annotations dialog

8. give your graphic annotation a name (at the top) and close out of the dialog

B) Create a new invisible line:

1. open the Edit Line Bodies dialog (Library->Line Bodies…)

2. Category: Generic

3. create a new one (+ button at bottom)

4. give it a name (“invisible”?)

5. for Line width: enter 0

6. click OK to close dialog

C) Create the actual line with graphic:

1. open the Edit Lines dialog (Library->Lines…)

2. create a new one (+ button at bottom)

3. name it

4. from the Body style: dropdown, select your invisible line

5. make sure Annotation: is set to None

6. from the Start cap: dropdown select your graphic annotation

That’s it!