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Exported les are saved in the selected destination as follows:
<project name> <layout name> <date and time>.<le extension>.
Example: MyProject Soprano 2016-05-01-143723.pdf
Monochrome and color graphics processing
Dorico Elements applies different settings when you export monochrome and color graphics. The
most appropriate setting depends on your intended purpose for the graphics.
Most musical scores are monochrome, meaning they use only black ink and are normally printed
on white/near-white paper. Some educational books occasionally use colors to highlight
particular notations, for example, to identify clefs, or to color notes according to their pitch. If
you export graphic les and print them with your own printer, you can leave Color selected in
the Destination section.
However, if you export graphic les in PDF format for direct printing on a platesetter or for
further production work in a page layout program, select Mono, unless your layout actually
contains colored elements. If you select Mono, Dorico Elements uses a different color space for
the resulting PDF, ensuring that the printed image only uses black ink. If you choose Color, then
the black items in your layout are exported as rich black, that is, black produced by combining
multiple colored inks. This can cause problems in production when making color separations at
the pre-press stage.
Dorico Elements species colors using the RGB color model, rather than the CMYK color model
which is used by platesetters and other professional printing machines. If you have colored
objects in your layouts and your layouts are printed professionally, you must post-process the
graphic les that are exported from Dorico Elements in another graphics application to convert
the colors from RGB to CMYK.
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Exporting layouts as graphic les on page 356
Embedding of fonts in PDF and SVG les
How fonts are handled in PDF and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) les mainly depends on the
fonts that you use in the project.
PDF Files
The music and text fonts that are supplied with Dorico Elements, these and their sub-
sets are embedded in PDF les during the export. If you open the PDF les on a
different computer, they look the same, even if that computer does not have the
fonts installed that are used in the document. If you use different fonts, make sure
that these permit embedding.
SVG Files
SVG les do not embed fonts directly: some font characters, such as note heads,
articulations, and accidentals, are converted into outlines, so that they do not
depend on the font from which they are taken. Other font characters, such as time
signature and tuplet digits, are only encoded using references to the font from which
they are taken. The latter also applies to regular text, such as staff labels, tempo
instructions, and dynamics. This means that the SVG le looks incorrect if rendered
by a web browser on a computer that does not have the fonts installed. It depends
on the browser or the rendering software, and on the fonts that are installed on the
computer, how the SVG le appears.
To ensure that the SVG le appears correctly if embedded in a web page, you can
open the SVG le in an illustration program and convert all font characters to outline
Print mode
Exporting layouts as graphic les
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