Scrolling/Paging through score
On a Mac I use Page Up and Page Down to move through a score, page by page. I set my score view to 75%, which on my screen makes the score fill the workspace with just a little background showing around the edges. But when paging through the score, the image of the score first jumps down revealing more of the canvas, rather than just moving the score image directly horizontal across the window. So to get to page 3 from page 2, I have to press Page Down twice. In preferences, I do have Limit scroll area to page borders checked.
Thanks
David
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Indeed, the page up/down commands are set up to use "logical" pages, so you see your entire score rather than skipping the portions that don't fit on the screen. This is consistent with a lot of other applications. If you want to literally go to the next "physical" page, try Ctrl (on macOS, probably Cmd) plus page up/down. Or if that doesn't work by default, go to Edit / Preferences / Shortcuts and customize these commands (search for "page").
In reply to Indeed, the page up/down… by Marc Sabatella
Marc... you wrote:
... the page up/down commands are set up to use "logical" pages, so you see your entire score rather than skipping the portions that don't fit on the screen.
OK, so given this:
![page.png]( "page.png")
![page0.png]( "page0.png")
Page down produces this to show the score portion that didn't fit:
So it shows the bottom part of the page which was missing from the first.
Using Ctrl + page down will indeed skip to the second page.
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But I think this is what the OP encountered:
OP wrote:
![page-1.png]( "page-1.png")
![page-2.png]( "page-2.png")
...the score fill the workspace with just a little background showing around the edges...
OK... so notice the blue background (canvas):
You can see at least 2 full pages.
Upon pressing 'Page Down', observe the blue border in the following image:
Since the bottom of the score is never hidden, the expectation would be to see the next page rather than a bigger blue border at the bottom of the existing page. Ctrl + page down works, but it seems like it should not be needed.
FWIW: This does not happen with a (zoom) drop down of, say, 50%. Then Ctrl + page down is not necessary.
In reply to ... the page up/down… by Jm6stringer
Oh, I see, I assumed a border on the sides was what was meant (that's all I'd get at 75% zoom). Seems a quirk in the algorithm indeed. But still, Ctrl+PageDown does the trick.
In reply to Oh, I see, I assumed a… by Marc Sabatella
I was getting ready to post some pictures, so thanks for that. It made my point. As Marc says, Cmd page down does what it seems to me just what ordinary page down would do.
David