Text displacement between Page View and Continuous View.

• Mar 28, 2016 - 23:03

When I placed text in Page View in the first measure of the attached file, it looked fine. But when I switched to Continuous View, it was in a different spot. I tried to fix that, but then it ended up being in another different spot when i switched back to Page View.

1. The desired placement of the text in Page View:
Screen Shot 2016-03-28 at 2.58.04 PM.png

2. What happens when I switch to Continuous View:
Screen Shot 2016-03-28 at 3.00.22 PM.png

3. When I fix it and switch back to Page View:
Screen Shot 2016-03-28 at 3.01.35 PM.png

You can try this out for yourselves.... It looks even worse when you try to upload to the website as a score.

Here's the file:


Comments

It's pretty normal that manual positioning might look different in Continuous view, because measures are likely to be different widths. Get the positioning to look right in Page view and don't worry if it looks different in Continuous.

In reply to by hasenfuss

The thing is, it is literally impossible to have it be the same. Consider if a measure in page view has four quarter notes and is four inches wide, so the notes are exactly one inch apart. You add some text to the first note and manually it one inch to the right, which had the effect of now being directly under the second note. Now you switch to continuous view, and now tat same measure is only two inches wide, because the nature of continuous view is such that you don't need or want measures artificially stretched out to reach the right margin. Now cpnsider that piece of text. You moved it one inch to the right, and that's what we'll honor, but it will no longer be directly under the second note any more, because the notes are closer together. So even though we are faithfully preserving your manual adjustment, the *effect* of that adjust is no longer the same as it was origianlly, because the very nature of continuous fiew is such that things are in different places than they are in page view and thus might *require* different adjustments.

So, your work is not destroyed - it just looks different in page view and continuous view due to the very nature of what those views are. The moment you return to page view, everythng is just as you left it. Nothing is lost, no user is disrespected.

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