When creating flip-folder sized copies for marching bands, it’s common to create a sheet with two sets of each part to save on paper when printing (example in the picture below). What’s the easiest way to create this in Dorico? I’d love to not have to create two copies of the same score, or open it up in a word processor and manually create them if possible.
In the Setup menu, create a new Flow and enter the music. Or, if you already have the 2nd piece engraved as an existing project, then file→import→flow and go from there. There are a number of Layout options related to flows as well as page templates and flow header options available in Engraving (right panel).
You can edit your page template so that it duplicates all of the information – two text frames with the title (at top and middle of page), two text frames with the composer, etc., and then two music frames, top and bottom.
This might work for you;
Make sure the music frames are not part of the same frame chain, because then they would show consecutive pieces (different flows).
Click the frame chain label (MA) in the top left corner of the second music frame. You’ll see this:
Click Unlink. The music frame will be assigned a new frame chain (with a new name starting with M), which, by default, will also display all flows and all players (assigned to the layout in Setup mode). So it will display the same flow and player as the upper frame. Do this for all templates you use in your part layouts (typically First and Default, but maybe you only use one in a marching band part). Or better even: create a new template set for this purpose, and leave the original templates as they are.
When I created a second music frame, it automatically got its own frame chain.
Didn’t know that! I just tried it very briefly with an existing template containing several frames… Thanks for educating me.
If I were going to use third-party software to solve this, I wouldn’t use a word-processor! At worst, you may be able to ‘impose’ PDF pages onto a sheet in either a PDF utility app, or a DTP app.
But as said, you can use two separate flow chains in the page template.
You could create a custom page size that is half the height of your standard paper, then print 2-up via the print dialog (I assume this is as possible on PC as it is on Mac).
Does this actually work for you on Mac? I couldn’t get it to work on Windows. 2-up will print two consecutive pages on one piece of paper, not two copies of the same page. And I think it will only print them side by side, not top and bottom.
Yes, it does. There’s an option to rotate the document so that they stack and print two of the same image on each page.
Oh, you’re using the system print dialog? That’s not available in Dorico on Windows. (And I’m not sure whether that action is even supported in the system print dialog.)
Right. I guess I was thinking that one would send the parts off as PDFs first and then use the print dialog. But only on Mac I guess!
And that is how it’s supposed to be.
n-up is always different pages, such as 1+2, 3+4, … while Step and Repeat is what the OP wants, when multiple copies of the same image/page are used to fill up a larger sheet. Perhaps some printer drivers support both types. Then you have Cut stacks which is another layout.