Wrong pagination when opening older Musescore files in Musescore 3

• Feb 2, 2019 - 07:22
Reported version
3.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S2 - Critical
Reproducibility
Always
Status
by design
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project

Hello,
As I'm working on the braille music project, I open scores created using Musescore 2 in Musescore 3. The result is very strange: Musescore 3 re-renders the pagination, generating lots of one-measure pages. It seems that Musescore 3's page is smaller and can't hold Musescore 2 scores. This happens by generating more extra pages if I answer no when it asks me to reset note positions, and fewer when answering yes. You can try any scores created using Musescore 2. This is a global problem, not for specific scores.

Regards
Haipeng


Comments

Status active by design

MuseScore renders scores differently from 2.x and you may need to redo the layout, sysstem- and page breaks are part of that.

In reply to by Jojo-Schmitz

Thanks. Then how to redo such layout? I'm blind, so it's impossible to work using mouse to click on the score. If there's a shortcut which can let Musescore 3 keep the layout from 2, then I can do it, otherwise I have to use 2 forever to export the poorer xml files.

Haipeng

In reply to by Jojo-Schmitz

I think only Musescore has such a strange issue. Other softwares like Finale, Sibelius, Overture, Encore etc, don't have this problem. Perhaps this is because they are expensive, but I don't know whether LibreOffice will change pagination of its document when updating to a new version :-)

Haipeng