Hi Everyone,
I’m almost certain I overlooked something quite obvious, but I can’t find a solution at the moment.
I have (quite) a few noteheads hidden (by changing the color setting in engrave mode), for glissandi etc. Works like a charm. Alas, when I print the layout (export it to PDF), the hidden notes show like I never touched that color setting. What am I missing?
Thanks a lot,
Cheers,
Max
Are you exporting Mono or Color? If you’ve hidden items using the color property, you have to export as color.
Alternatively you can create a noteheadless notehead set - there are steps for creating a notehead set here. For noteheadless noteheads, it’s a good idea to include something in the notehead itself so that you can still select it - a bit of text that’s just several Spaces (press the Spacebar a few times then add that as a glyph) works quite well.
Exactly the kind of thing I suspected I was not aware of! Thank you so much! 
You’re welcome!
I think 3 spaces is perfect.
jesper
I have hidden noteheads using ‘hide notehead’ in the properties panel in engrave mode. Pdf looks clean but in the print these little tenuto-like lines appear wherever there is a hidden notehead. Is there a bug in the ‘hide notehead’ property or is it connected to this colour thing and we are supposed to export in colour when using the feature?
I made a supersmall notehead set and place them on stafflines instead of hiding them, just to be sure. There was a discussion about this, and it seems to depend on the printer model and PDF app used when printing.
Jesper
Here’s a file with both a black and a white supersmall notehead. White on the E and black on the F. You could test a printout.
XSnoteheads.dorico (1.3 MB)
