Styles are badly applied in converter mode

• Jun 26, 2020 - 09:03
Reported version
3.4
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S3 - Major
Reproducibility
Always
Status
duplicate
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

Style files are not correctly applied when running Musescore3 in converter mode (command line).

Step to reproduce :

1) use Musescore to save a style file with a custom page size.
2) create a new score with no styles applied.
3) use the command line to convert the score to pdf or png using the style option.

When exporting to png or svg, the style seems to be ignored.
When exporting to pdf, the page style is applied but is not taken into account during the formatting, making the score override the page size.

musescore3 -S xxs.mss -o score.png score.mscz
convert score.mscz...
    using style xxs.mss
    to score.svg
... success

When I convert to another musescore file, the styles are correctly applied.

musescore3 -S xxs.mss -o score-styled.mscz score.mscz
convert score.mscz...
    using style xxs.mss
    to score-styled.mscz
... success

It means creating an intermediary musescore file every time is a working workaround, although not a very practical one.

Tried using Musescore-3.4.2.

Note: the #102421: Command line interface ignores style when exporting to PDF issue seems related.

Attachment Size
score.mscz 7.07 KB
score-1.png 102.13 KB
score.pdf 11.33 KB
score-styled.mscz 15.82 KB
score-styled-1.png 72.15 KB

Comments

• Jun 26, 2020 - 13:07

Hi @Jojo-Schmitz. Thank you for your reply.

You are right, this issue looks like a duplicate.

Why should styles not be applied on other formats, though? Furthermore, styles are definitely applied (but badly) to pdf export. See the score.pdf attachment.

So the issue could be resolved by one of those solutions:
* apply styles before exporting to new file format (to me, the most logical) ;
* ignore style files for all formats but .mscz, but make it exlicit in the documentation and maybe display a warning in the command line.

I don't know what is the original intended behavior.

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