I have started to use Dorico Pro 3.5.11.1054 (Win 10) a few weeks ago and find that the note heads are drawn with a few pixels of wrong offset vs. staff lines at most zoom levels.
Here is an example at 200% zoom where the note heads are off by a few pixels:
At some zoom levels it shows correctly. This is at 400%:
Is there something in Dorico’s preferences that affects this? Or is this a bug?
Thanks dankreider, I checked and I do have Bravura version 1.39 installed.
One thing I now have also noticed is that Dorico’s GUI has everything in the various panel icons also shifted be a few pixels. For example this is the lower left corner panel with the various view settings and you can see it has pixels missing of the icon content as they are shifted lower and right:
Another example is the engraving notehead settings window which has the noteheads also shifted from the staff line:
So it seems that this is a Dorico bug (at least in relation to my OS / system configuration) as I have no other software on my system with similar GUI issues?
I’m afraid somebody smarter than me is going to need to weigh in. All I can say is that this is pretty unusual, and it’s probably something having to do with your system settings, although I can’t say for sure. I’ve never seen that before.
Thanks dspreadbury, switching ClearType on has now fixed it!
I normally have ClearType switched off as I dislike Window’s ClearType subpixel text font rendering and prefer the higher contrast and non-aliased look with ClearType off.
I assume there is no way to use Dorico with ClearType disabled and not have this x/y offset issue? I have not run into similar issues with any other software on my system (the font appearance is obviously different with ClearType disabled but the x/y positioning would normally not change)?
Thanks @dspreadbury, I will use Dorico with ClearType enabled.
If anybody else bumps into this issue, I am now using a small utility called " Better ClearType Tuner" that allows me to quickly toggle ClearType on/off before/after using Dorico so I can keep ClearType disabled on my system unless using Dorico.