[SOLVED] Inconsistencies among installations
Hi there!
I have MuseScore 2.0.2 installed on three devices of mine: a Windows XP, Mageia Linux (compiled from source), and Ubuntu 14 (from MuseScore own repository). Now, my problems are the following:
- On Mageia Linux (compiled from source), exporting to PDF has some items appearing as empty boxes (in my case: 8va treble and bass clefs, parentheses around a flat, staccato dots لآلات الريكوردر.pdf).
- On Ubuntu 14 (from MuseScore own repository), a downloaded plugin won't show in the menu (so, unusable).
I have no idea what could be missing in either case... So, your suggestions would be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Hosam Adeeb Nashed
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on Mageia it Looks as if you have (a wrong version of) some MuseScore font installed, mscore or bravura probably.
in Ubunto, does the the plugin Show int he plugin Manager?
But I think there is a known issue with Ubuntu, the PPA and a missing dependency, QtQuick or some such.
In reply to on Mageia it Looks as if you by Jojo-Schmitz
In Ubuntu, the plugin does show in the Plugin Manager, but not in the Plugins menu.
As for Mageia, I only have three fonts in the /usr/share/fonts/mscore/ directory, and all dating from Oct 2014, all TTF, and all start with mscore-. By contrast, the build directory of MuseScore 2.0.2 does contain much more than that! And I don't know where these should go if I need to put them somewhere manually, as they seem not to have been put where they should by the make install script...
In reply to In Ubuntu, the plugin does by HosAdeeb
Delete the ones in /usr/share/fonts/mscore. And get the missing QtQuick on the other machine. MuseScore has the fonts built in, but uses external.ones if these exist
In reply to Delete the ones in by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks a million!!
You've just drawn my attention to an issue: I never uninstalled the older MuseScore 1.3, installed from Mageia repositories. You see, I still need some of the older plug-ins, as no newer ones of the same functionality exist yet. But I tried a trick, and it worked just fine: I put all the other "mscore" fonts in the same place, seeing as they haven't the same names. The PDF now comes they way it should.
Many, many thanks again. :-D
In reply to Thanks a million!! You've by HosAdeeb
The older MuseScore doesn't need those fonts either, it just doesn't react that badly if they do exist
In reply to The older MuseScore doesn't by Jojo-Schmitz
Actually, all versions of MuseScore react badly if the wrong version of a font is installed. That is, 1.3 will not be happy if the 2.0 version of the font is installed, and vice versa. The correct installation is to have *no* versions of these fonts installed, so both version of MuseScore use their own internal version rather than what is installed.
In reply to Actually, all versions of by Marc Sabatella
There are problems with that though, as I've mentioned before - some vector graphics programs capable of importing PDF files cannot interpret MuseScore generated PDFs properly without a copy of the MuseScore fonts in the Windows font directory.
eg this output from Inkscape with font substitution turned off
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In reply to There are problems with that by ChurchOrganist
I guess then these programs need to be taught to use the fonts that are embedded in the PDF
In reply to I guess then these programs by Jojo-Schmitz
It would be simpler to adjust MuseScore's code so that it ignores core font files in the Windows font directory.
In reply to It would be simpler to adjust by ChurchOrganist
Windows and Linux font directories...
won't help for 1.x and 2.0.x though
In reply to Windows and Linux font by Jojo-Schmitz
Windows and Linux and Mac font directories. ;-) (And maybe BSD?)
In reply to Windows and Linux and Mac by Isaac Weiss
Mac is not affected as far as I knowe, there the fonts are not built into MuseScore in the first place.
In reply to Mac is not affected as far as by Jojo-Schmitz
No, they are—actually inside of the application bundle. /Applications/MuseScore 2/Contents/Resources/fonts.
In reply to No, they are—actually inside by Isaac Weiss
still not the same as Windows/Linux, where they are built into the MuseScore program itself
In reply to It would be simpler to adjust by ChurchOrganist
@ChurchOrganist Please do so ;)
In reply to @ChurchOrganist Please do so by [DELETED] 5
I will certainly have a look Nicolas :)
I still couldn't solve the problem of MuseScore 2.0.2 under Ubuntu 14 not being able to show a certain plug-in that works fine in other installations.
I did make sure QtQuick Controls are installed, and the plug-ins that come with the installation do work. So, I have no idea why a particular plug-in (QuarterTonePlayback, downloaded from the site) works on Mageia and Windows but not on Ubuntu!!!
In reply to I still couldn't solve the by HosAdeeb
When you start MuseScore from the command line and enable that plugin, do you see any error Messages?
Of if you lod theat plugin into the plugin Editor?