Formatting & Editing issue of "Score" Guitar Teaching Resource Chart
Hi Fellow Musescore users and lovers. Easter Greetings from Melbourne, Australia.
I am having formatting issue, of a "teaching resource score" (that I made using Musescore, a few years ago) that now doesn't download with the same layout and "editablity"
I presume that this is due to a number of subsequent version updates.
I made a set of charts, (showing guitar notes on the treble clef & their respective fretboards)
It was rather a convoluted and experimental process as I was perhaps pushing the limits of some of the software capabilities by using extreme scaling & size settings.
The "scaling" feature was used, so that each page featured only one note and one corresponding fretboard.
To create a page border I used the rectangular "frame" feature (set to a large & thick size) around a "header/footer" text positioned in the middle of the page, sized very small, and then made "invisible."
After saving the document online (in August 2019) I downloaded it a few weeks ago, to correct an error, and saw that the positioning of the parts of the chart (fretboard, stave, page numbers, note names, frames etc) were not only in different positions but that I am unable to select and edit (remove or add) any of these.
I have posted a link and uploaded files) of the:
a) August 2019 Musescore version (see below)
b) PDF (2 versions zipped; black & white and coloured) of how the charts appeared in August 2019
c) PDF (single version; black & white)
d) Screenshot of downloaded "guitar charts" showing formatting issues.
I would love some assistance with or advice on how to revert it back to the original layout see PDFs (perhaps by saving it with an older previous Musescore version) or edit it, so it resembles the original layout (see PDFs)
Thank you in advance to anyone to can assist with this.
Alison 0412 378 243
"A-Part To Play" (Music Education & Piano/Guitar Tuition)
https://musescore.com/user/26377/scores/5665583/s/3sHbnV?share=copy_link
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Hello! Looks like you've disabled download for that score over on musescore.com. Better to just attach it here.
It's normal that any score as heavily adjusted as this might display differently from one major version to another, but probably there would be some simple style settings to tweak to get it working. I'm not really understanding the part about not being able to select or edit things, though. Nothing has changed in that respect since the very first release of MuseScore. But once you are able to attach the file here, we can understand better.
In reply to Hello! Looks like you've… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you so much. I'm not sure how to attach it here but I will continue trying. I will also take a video of me trying to edit it so you can see what I mean. MANY thanks.
In reply to Thank you so much. I'm not… by Alison Riggs
Also what setting do I change, to make it downloadable? I changed it to public so that might make a difference.
https://musescore.com/user/26377/scores/5665583/s/3sHbnV
In reply to https://musescore.com/user… by Alison Riggs
Access denied :(
https://musescore.org/en/node/289899
The *.mscz file?
Edit: Download the version you were using in August 2019 (3.2?) and correct your score with that.
https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/musescore-nightlies/windows/3x/stable/
In reply to Access denied :( https:/… by Shoichi
Thank you so much. I'm downloading it now and will try. I'm always a few versions behind so will try a few before that too.
In reply to Access denied :( https:/… by Shoichi
I've attached the file from my files rather than a link from my online scores. I hope that works. Thank you again to those who are helping me.
In reply to Access denied :( https:/… by Shoichi
SHOICHI- THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOO MUCH! It worked straight away! Very straight ford! Thank you again.
I've attached a couple of videos showing how the score behaves when trying to edit it, Musescore. Thank you
In reply to I've attached a couple of… by Alison Riggs
I couldn't attach the videos.
In reply to I couldn't attach the videos. by Alison Riggs
Nobody could correct the *.mscz file or check it through the video (or an image). that's why you should attach the *.mscz file.
In reply to Nobody could correct the *… by Shoichi
I've attached it from my computer files (not my online scores) Thanks.
Unfortunately it appears the scores you attached are all the 3.6.2 versions - they've already been imported and resaved. We'd really still need the original files in order to understand exactly what happened here.
As it is, I can make a decent guesses, though. It seems you have some very unusual style settings for header and footer that you were using to create special effects, but this interfering with the normal operation of things. Somehow one giant header is being created that appears to be covering the entire score and I can't quite get rid of it - except by turning off headers & footers in Format / Style, then saving and reloading. I guess you were using that as a trick to get the big box around the whole page. Clever, but it's backfiring here. Headers and footers used to not be selectable so you couldn't edit them directly, but now you can select them and double-click to edit, and that causes the problem - the header covers literally the entire page and makes it hard to select anything else.
So once you get rid of that, you can work with the score normally. The formatting differences from there are relatively small. probably just a matter of a couple of style settings that didn't get preserved properly. Also it seems the fret diagram is getting scaled too big, it's current set to 3.6 but it seems 2.6 - which is your style default - works better. Maybe the meaning of this changed, not sure. With the original file we could probably say better.
In reply to Unfortunately it appears the… by Marc Sabatella
Here's a version with just those two changes, FWIW.