Hi all,
When I open projects, I often get a Missing Font warning. This started happening after upgrading to 3.5.
Is there something I can do to fix this please?
Darren
Doricoâs Font Styles and Paragraph Styles âcascadeâ â that is, they define themselves as âlike that other style, but with these differencesâ.
If you change the Default Text font, it is possible for some existing Styles to be set to something like âthe new Default Text Font, in an Italic Styleâ.
If your choice of font doesnât have an Italic (or whatever), then youâll see this message. For instance, Petaluma Text doesnât have an Italic.
In short: itâs not complaining that some of your fonts have disappeared; itâs complaining that some of the Style settings are set to values that donât exist.
Sadly, it doesnât tell you exactly which of the Font Styles or Paragraph Styles are affected. Itâs possible that youâre not even using that style in the current project. So just have a search around the Font and Paragraph Styles that youâre using, and check that the selection is valid for your Fonts.
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To piggyback off of Ben, another issue is that Dorico defaults to âregularâ as the default font style. Many fonts are not defined this way. I use Iowan Old Style as my default font and its standard style is defined as âromanâ. Every single project I open gives me a warning about fonts even though the font is there, because Dorico wants a bunch of cascading styles to reference the âregularâ which doesnât exist. If the font in question is indeed installed, you can just click OK without changing anything or making any substitutions and it opens just fine.
Thanks for the advice, it somewhat clears things up. I really appreciate it.
However, Iâm only using the default music fonts installed, Bravura and Petaluma. Nothing fancier than that, although I have increased the size of chords symbols in some projects. Donât think Iâve selected anything in italicised font or something else.
Anyway, it doesnât seem to be much of an issue as youâve both described.
Regards
Darren
If, for instance, you set Petaluma as your default text font, and you donât change (e.g.) your bar numbers font, youâre going to get the Missing Fonts Dialog. The bar numbers font(s) cascade from the default text font but with the âitalicâ style set. Petaluma doesnât actually have an italic variant so Dorico (or possibly the operating system) synthesises one on the fly.
The point where this can cause problems is when generating PDFs; PDFs canât embed font styles that donât exist.
I believe I imported a file as an xml from Sibelius and get the following message when I load the saved file in Dorico.
I think there is supposed to be a âdropdown boxâ to pick a replacement font family or style, but one does not appear when I click on the box. (version 3.5.10). Is there another place this can be done?
To the best of my knowledge, the fact that itâs a MusicXML file is irrelevant.
You may have changed the font for Default Text in Engrave > Paragraph Styles or the Default Text Font in Engrave > Paragraph styles, or possibly (probably?) the global one within Dorico Preferences.
Whichever it is, change it to a regular text font. Bravura is a music font, is not designed for text, and definitely doesnât contain a Bold style.
Once youâve changed the default fonts, close the existing project and reimport the MusicXML.
Iâve already made the changes to the file in Dorico. If there is no way to change the font in Dorico, then I will just ignore the message. The program is automatically assigning fonts that work.
The two fonts to change (assuming youâve not been through and edited loads of the others manually) are the two defaults I mentioned in Engraving > Paragraph Styles and Font Styles.
If you fix these you shouldnât need to reimport anything.
If the change youâd made was in the Dorico Preferences dialog, your best bet is to change that too, as that will affect all future projects you create/import.
Most of the other font and paragraph styles inherit various (most) characteristics from the defaults. For instance, Bar Numbers inherit everything from the Default Text Paragraph Style apart from the size and the style (which will be italic unless youâve overridden that manually).
Early on, I would manually modify the chord symbols in Engrave mode to make the numbers larger (i.e. #5 or b9) . That turned out to be a bad idea because it would crash Dorico. After some research, I discovered a chord symbol set already in Dorico that had larger numbers and I now use that as a default. I say this because I notice the fonts in this lead sheet are quite large and may have been why this one font is a problem. When you load this file, you will notice there is no dropdown box to replace the font. The online help shows a picture of a dropdown where one can replace the offending font with an existing one.
I have not had any problems importing files for a while so I no longer consider this a problem, but I wanted to make you aware of the issue.
Shadow of Your Smile Leadsheet.dorico (1.1 MB)