Hide system separators on one page only

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ajrobb
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Post by ajrobb » Mon Apr 01, 2019 11:37 pm

I have a piano-vocal score with system separators, but one page out of forty is solo piano. How can I remove/hide the system separators on that page only?


KJ_Palmer
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Post by KJ_Palmer » Tue Apr 02, 2019 12:11 am

If I understand correctly, you can hide the empty vocal staves, by selecting the whole score (or just all the staves on that page) and using Ctrl + Alt + Shift + H (if Windows).
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MikeLyons
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Post by MikeLyons » Tue Apr 02, 2019 6:33 am

Because this is a global setting, I think the only way to do it is use a white graphic to cover the separators on the page with no vocal line.
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ajrobb
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Post by ajrobb » Fri Apr 05, 2019 3:00 am

The white/blank image seems to appear behind the system separators no matter what I do, whether I set the appearance order to 1 or 32 - is there a way to bring it forward?

Thanks so much for the help!
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MikeLyons
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Post by MikeLyons » Fri Apr 05, 2019 6:09 am

I tried this myself and you're right, it doesn't work. Perhaps because they are not objects.

In that case the only solution is to insert them where you DO want them either as symbols (there's a suitable symbol in the zymbols menu) or as graphics, manually in the score. It's a global setting so I can't see any way of even selecting individual ones.
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ShirleeFairbanks
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Post by ShirleeFairbanks » Fri Apr 05, 2019 9:51 am

thank you for sharing information it was quite helpful as i was facing the same problem.

ajrobb
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Post by ajrobb » Fri Apr 05, 2019 5:06 pm

Since I want the separators everywhere except that single page, I think I'm just going to make two PDFs, one with separators and one without, and then swap in the page without separators into Acrobat. It's a kludge, but seems like the most elegant option at this point.

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