"Untitled"/"My First Score" does not respect locale page size
Reported version
3.0
Priority
P0 - Critical
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
Yes
Workaround
Yes
Project
Launch MuseScore 3 with language set to US English or some other locale where the standard page size is Letter rather than A4. Result, a regression from MuseScore 2: the default document is A4.
Comments
IIRC this does not depend on the locale, but on the default printer's default paper size
This is true, but I find it doesn't always work - I still end up getting A4 sometimes, maybe has something to do with default printer not being accessible, or maybe it's what happens when the default printer hasn't been set up yet? Anyhow, I recall this compromise arising because there were complications with deducing paper size from locale, but maybe we could check it as a fall-back.
My default printer's paper size is "Letter", and I have the same problem. Any new score I create is always set to "A4" paper size, whereas in MuseScore 2, it is correctly set to "Letter".
OS: KDE neon User Edition 5.14, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 3.0.2.20546, revision: f494c48
Actually, though, I think Isaac's point is regarding the untitled score specifically - newly created scores created do get initialized properly in most cases.
I think for "My First Score", we need to explicitly remove the page size lines from the MSCX file to trigger this.
Isn't that what --template-mode is supposed to do?
Probably. Did you use it when saving this?
Not sure, probably not
see https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/4620
Possibly related to #282736: MuseScore 3 does not set correct paper size in Linux
Not sure whether fixing that template would help, there is a
score->setPageFormat(*MScore::defaultStyle()->pageFormat());commented out with a TODO since see 9a9dedf7Fixed in branch master, commit cbe98fa46b
fix #282730: "Untitled"/"My First Score" does not respect locale page size
Fixed in branch master, commit 660de741a8
_Merge pull request #4620 from Jojo-Schmitz/my-first-score
fix #282730: "Untitled"/"My First Score" does not respect locale page size_
Fixed in branch 3.0.5, commit f7fb7de644
_Merge pull request #4620 from Jojo-Schmitz/my-first-score
fix #282730: "Untitled"/"My First Score" does not respect locale page size_
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.