Add a "set thumbnail" button.
Problem: in various cases, whether it be due to frame size or page size, the thumbnail of a score and the front page of a score are not equal in size. Because of this, it becomes quite awkward to create a thumbnail without ruining the score.
For example, here is what the first page of this example piece of music looks like in the musescore app itself; note that there is no whitespace:
Now, here is what the thumbnail of this example piece of music looks like; I have highlighted the white space:
It should be noted that this is also the thumbnail used on the musescore.com side of things, which makes it look tacky. However, resizing the image to account for this whitespace results in the image going onto the next page in the app itself, which looks even worse, as well as uncentering the text, making it look worse as well.
Proposed solution(s):
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Add a "set thumbnail" button, either to musescore.com or the application itself, that allows you to set an image as a thumbnail, separate from the first page of the score. This way, we don't have to deal with different page sizes and frame sizes, among other things, and can instead just upload an image and be done.
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Add a button that adds a special page to the front of your score that specifically functions as a page to place a thumbnail image. It wouldn't be printed out unless you specified to print it and it would simply serve to be a page that is the correct size of an actual musescore thumbnail.
Personally, I prefer solution 1 over 2.
Comments
Could you provide an image of what you are trying to do?
In reply to Could you provide an image… by bobjp
Something like his scores on .com I think.
Something like this (photomontage)
In reply to Could you provide an image… by bobjp
Updated post to (hopefully) make it more clear. ^.^
In reply to Updated post to (hopefully)… by K. Catterall
I could be missing something (probably) but it looks to me like you image needs to be taller and just a bit wider. Yes? This could be adjusted in an image editor to A4 specs, I believe. Though it would be nice to be able to do it in MuseScore.
In reply to I could be missing something… by bobjp
The image that I used is adjusted to A4 specs, but adding it into the frame gives an image much smaller than the page size, which is also set to A4.
In reply to The image that I used is… by K. Catterall
This is what I see on .com.
In reply to This is what I see on .com. … by bobjp
That's weird, maybe it depends on what monitor or something like that?
In reply to That's weird, maybe it… by K. Catterall
I see exactly what bobjp's image shows.
It's the same with me using either the Microsoft Edge browser or Microsoft Internet Explorer.
In reply to I see exactly what bobjp's… by Jm6stringer
Weird, this is what I see (well, minus the yellow marking and little face of course!):
I see on this on Opera and Chrome, haven't tried any others.
In reply to Weird, this is what I see: by K. Catterall
Does zooming in/out affect the thumbnail and/or the whitespace?
In reply to Does zooming in/out affect… by Jm6stringer
I'm afraid not. I think the best solution would be to just make thumbnails separate from the first page.
In reply to I'm afraid not. I think the… by K. Catterall
I suspect it is different for you because it's your account. Perhaps log out of MuseScore and go to your page.
In reply to I suspect it is different… by bobjp
Logged out of musescore page, still the same. For now, I'm just going to do trial and error on every single one until it looks right.
I see all of this as evidence that the edition as a set thumbnail button, possibly the splitting between thumbnails online and the first page, would be 10x easier than whatever options we have now.