Objects moving after saving or printing

Dorico
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Hello,

I have some difficulties keeping small objects like ties and lines in place after having moved them by hand. They seem to jump up or down, sometimes I have to move them more than ten times until they stay where I want them to be.
It also happens that after saving or printing the project they have moved again.
How can I stop objects to move? Do I have to change seomething somewhere in the settings, f.e.?
Thanks a lot!

Best,
Annegret

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Hi @amayerlindenberg and welcome to the Forum.

It is difficult to depict what you are experiencing from your description. Could you make a video screen recording of what happens, to understand better what is going on?

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In Dorico, moving things by hand is for small adjustments, and is usually the last resort, after all other options have been exhausted. Can you describe what you did?

But really, we need to see a project file, or screenshots.

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Welcome to the forum!

I don’t think something could move between editing it in Engrave mode and printing… as the other people have said, could we see the file?

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this is how it should look like (bar 30-32)

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after saving it, closing the programme and reopening it, it looks like this (bar 30-32)

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Are these just lines or dedicated glissandos?

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they are lines, I use them as glissandos
and also arrows above the stave

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If you’re able to attach the project, that would be helpful. Without seeing the project, I’m not sure what to suggest.

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Dear Daniel,

attached you find the project.
Thanks a lot!

best,
Annegret

(attachments)

EtwasFastInDerMitte_Partitur_klingend.dorico (561 KB)

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Why not use glissandos, pray tell? If you did, I think that is half your problem solved, maybe.

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I don’t want the word “gliss” above the line every time, I only want to have the line between the two notes.

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You can deactivate the “gliss” locally via the properties panel or globally in Engrave Mode

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Thankyou, I found it!
That’s part of it solved…:slight_smile:

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Yes, you can turn of the text on a gliss. It’s annoying you have to do it for each one, but it is the answer to that.

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You can do it all in one go at the end. Select all, filter glissando lines… set text property.

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There is also an Engraving Option, folks! Set that for the majority of cases; override it in Properties when needed.

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Annegret, I think you will find the results better if you use grouped playing techniques with continuation lines, rather than using separate playing techniques and line items. This video introduces the idea:

More information in the operation manual here:

https://www.steinberg.help/r/dorico-pro/5.1/en/dorico/topics/notation_reference/notation_reference_playing_techniques/notation_reference_playing_techniques_continuation_lines_c.html

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Great - this is very helpful, thanks a lot! :slight_smile: