Suggestions for Dorico’s Print Mode

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Dear Dorico Team,

First of all, thank you for your work and for creating such a great piece of software!

I’ve made some notes based on my recent projects and wanted to share a few suggestions for the Print mode:

1) Graphic Export – Option: Open folder on export

It would be very helpful to have an option that automatically opens the folder where the files have been exported.

Most of the time, I export files to send them to someone, and I always have to manually locate the file—which can take a moment when working with multiple cloud services and many stored projects.

Also, there currently isn’t a clear confirmation that the export was successful, and I often find myself clicking the export button twice just to be sure. Automatically opening the export folder would solve both issues.

An alternative could be a small confirmation popup like:

“… Files have been created in [path] successfully.”

with a button: “Open Folder”

2) Option to set a default export folder

It would be great to have the ability to define a default folder for PDF exports.

Recently, I worked on several files from the same project, all of which needed to be saved to the same destination. A default folder setting would have saved time and clicks.

3) Custom default folders

Taking it a step further, it would be great to have custom default folder rules for exported files.

For example, if a project is in a folder called “XY”, the PDF exports could automatically go into:

“XY/Filename PDF/…”

This would be especially useful for users who frequently work with parts in large volumes—especially if tokens (like those used in filenames) could be applied to folder names too.

Combining suggestions 2 and 3 would allow storing all PDF exports in a specific location while automatically organizing them by project/instrument/date…

4) Display page numbers in Print mode

I sometimes work with collections of exercises where I don’t want the score to display page numbers in the layout.

In such cases, it’s tricky to select specific pages or ranges. It would be helpful if Dorico displayed the page numbers independently of the score layout—just in the Print mode interface.

5) Print current page option

For the same use case, a “Print Current Page” function (as seen in many other applications) would be quite handy.

Thanks again for your time and dedication.

Best regards,

Johannes

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Hi!
For the first request, I think there’s a problem : you can set Dorico to export some layouts to a certain destination and other layouts to another destination. Which folder should then be opened, when you zsk for it?
Since probably most of us use the same destination, could there be that option available when all selected layouts have the same destination folder?

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Johannes, if you are in a project, even in print mode, can’t you click on the very top title bar to go exactly to the folder where the project file sits, and where by default your graphic exports will also reside? I am not in front of my computer, but as far as I remember by muscle memory, it only needs one modifier key to open that folder..

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That would be great but I can’t recreate what you are supposing. - I’m on windows (if that matters). Could you maybe take a screenshot where to click? Greetings, Johannes

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Thanks for your reply. Yes, that would definitely have to be considered.

I don’t have a developer background, but perhaps a confirmation popup could be expanded a bit:

  • 3 files have been created in “…/…” [Open folder]
  • 1 file has been created in “…/…” [Open folder]
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ah, it might be a Mac thing; if you click here, you’ll instantly see the folder - inclusive folder tree:

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Ok, but that is kind of irrelevant when it comes to the destination of the exported PDFs… I never send those to the Dorico Project folders in my computer. :person_shrugging:

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The second point would change my life. At least professionally.

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I agree. Default export folder is what I would need to avoid the usual clicking each time I export pdfs, 99% of the time my Scores folder. It wouldn’t change my life but probably save me a couple of seconds several times a week!

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