Dear LAE,
Please explore the software tisimst created: everything you describe is in there…
Marc, I agree, if one has grown into ‘this has been free until’ or 'if you do this and that, this costs nothing’ ‘but you have to install a plugin, or avoid this by not checking’ or ‘this costs, but is sort of reasonable’, ‘this is really too expensive, but I’d really like it’ ‘I can live with a bit of constant adverts next to my nose’ and all these thoughts…
… there is no eye for the good things left …
No, it’s not all in there, but as this is going slightly off topic I rest my case 
Are you referring to the fact that Dorico doesn’t do this or that the software I created doesn’t actually do what you want? I’m certainly not offended if you don’t want to use what I created. Just interested if your use-case is really out of the scope of what mine offer.
No, not at all! It is great software that works very well and I surely will use it many times, especially the BatchStitch and the BatchScale programs.
I was going off topic in my response (post #40) listing PDF software that have been useful to me in other aspects as well, not only the ones discussed by the OP - post processing and editing like adding page numbers, combining separate pages from multiple PDFs into a new one, inserting blank pages ad lib etc. As far as I understand this is not the purpose of your programs. Hence my response to Marc.
I thought those were precisely all the features that were possible with the software provided by tisimst (add blank pages, add pages numbers and so on…) I never used them yet, but that’s what the video I watched in Scoring Notes led me to understand! I’ll leave it to tisimst to develop if I’m mistaken 
Actually, they don’t currently add page numbers and blank pages are added when compiling booklets. There isn’t a generic insert-blank-page function, though that’d be pretty simple to add. So, I guess I’m at fault here.
However, combining separate pages into one file, that’s what the stitch app does (unless you mean specific individual pages out of a multi page document, then no it doesn’t do that).
You can drag a whole pdf instead of dragging each page separately:)
As the OP I have been watching this thread with interest. I don’t think anyone is going off-topic, it’s all really useful stuff, for which thank you all ! I still feel personally it would be good to able to do this natively in Dorico, which is a scoring app after all, and many scores are pdfs these days. By the look of Daniel’s reply early in the thread that will happen at some time though and judging by what he has promised previously as the design of this app has developed I have no reason to doubt him. Plus, when it does happen, if past performance is anything to go by, it will probably be a well thought out, useful and workable addition. In the meantime, all these options are really handy.
Best wishes all,
Mike
I like to have a toolbox of different programs for different tasks, but maybe that’s just me…
(Another tiny PDF utility worth to mention that I have used a lot for optimizing scans from IMSLP, is the cropping app BRISS. Very handy. Sofar I did not find that exact functionality in any program.)
There’s a thing in software development called “Feature Creep”, and it’s generally considered a Bad Thing. Feature creep - Wikipedia
I think it’s very important that Dorico stays on the core tasks that other apps can’t do. There are, as we’ve seen, plenty of apps that can perform all sorts of manipulations and edits and conversions and adjustments to PDFs: Dorico’s developers don’t need to spend time duplicating those tasks when they could be adding features that PDF utilities don’t have, like figured bass. 
With automation, it’s very easy to pass a document from one app to another without having to press a single button. Dorico can be one app in a workflow of many apps. That’s not a limitation, that’s the beauty and power of computing.
Feature Creep - right on. Here’s looking at you, iTunes. A 400 MB audio player? Mmm-hmm.
Same caution applies to the whole DAW discussion. I already have a DAW. Dorico isn’t a DAW. The exact parsing of that is admittedly more difficult.
I hope now Dorico is able to export all parts into a single PDF. It’s not a “feature creep”, it’s something you would definitely use and it saves you to write I don’t know, 30 times? the name of the score and the part besides an ID to print all the parts.
It’s as easy as having a PDF for the score and one for the parts. Then you may share your score and get it printed elsewere.
I have Dorico 1, and I was very happy with parts and engraving… until this.
So I don’t think is something extra, but a very useful thing that I hope it is present in Dorico 3 (I repeat I only have Dorico 1).
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In Dorico 3, you certainly don’t have to “write the name of the score 30 times” to print all the parts with one click.
…but equally Dorico 3 can’t export all of these layouts as one file. There are tons of PDF combiners out there, though, and some of them are free of charge.
Sure, but if you send one big PDF to an orchestra librarian they might just want to print off just one part that had got damaged. You can’t win 'em all whatever you do. And if you send one big PDF, printing different numbers of parts for different sections would be a pain anyway.
I agree with benwiggy, the world doesn’t really need yet another set of PDF utilities built into Dorico.
Rob, I’m entirely in agreement with you. There’s also the issue of whether parts with odd numbers of pages should have extra blank pages - it’s more complicated than just adding a button to Dorico.
Just for entertainment value, there has been an option in Lilypond for years to specify if you want the score to be formatted to end on an odd or even page number, by automatically changing the music spacing.
I’m not suggesting it can’t be done, Rob
I’m not seriously suggesting it should be done, automatically. Some of the formatting options in Lilypond are too clever for their own good