Hello, I often want to write notes from a PDF with Dorico. To do this, I would like to display the PDF on one half of the screen and use Dorico on the other half. There is now a function in the Mac operating system for this (simply drag the window to the right or left edge of the screen with the mouse button pressed). So far, so good. This works well in the PDF App, where exactly half of the screen is filled. In Dorico, however, it is peculiar… Despite hiding the palettes (‘hide zones’), you can’t move the window to one half of the screen in ‘Write Mode’. Dorico always needs more space. Strangely enough, it works as expected in ‘Engrave Mode’ or ‘Play Mode’. Do you have an explanation for this?
Greetings from Lower Saxony, which is currently buried in snow.
The fact that the Dorico window tends to claim more space is due to the information displayed in the status bar at the bottom of the window. Right-click there to deselect some items, that should fix it.
Thank you Zalde, that’s the answer to my question. Daniel’s comment also explains why the window needs even more space in German than in English. German words are often longer…
Interesting, since years I do it the other way round: Dorico in the top 75% and the PDF viewer (Preview) in the lower 25% of the screen. The Dorico window is at the front; luckily one can scroll the pdf without bringing Preview to the front.
On the iPad I let Dorico use the left side (75%) and (in Split view) display the pdf on the right. It is a bit clumsy, but for small jobs it works. One problem is, that I can’t save the Project Info window, without leaving Split view beforehand.
I remember from my distant DTP years, involving putting translations of product specs on packages etc., that Dutch text took about 50% more space than English, and especially German and Russian tended to take about 100% more space on the layout than the English original. And then, let’s not even start considering Polish… Beautiful language, absolutely, but it requires some real estate to print it.
