Music example imports not showing

I have been successfully converting my Finale files to Dorico by way of the Finale 27 batch converter. However, when I convert independent short footnote examples, each of which is an individual Finale file, there is no actual content in the new Dorico file that opens, although the correct name is shown at the top of the window and a flow has been created for it in the Setup window. Here’s an example of such an example:

What am I doing wrong?

Hi @John_Ruggero, can you upload the resulting Dorico file?

I sure can.
Bach Flute Sonata Bm Ex 1.1 Gm copy.dorico (508.9 KB)

Hi @John, I found a solution to your issue. There are no pages and even inserting a page, the page templates are scrwed up. A total reset via Library manager lets all appear as expected :slight_smile:

In Layout Options, when I changed the Full Score from a very small custom size to A5 (and left the part at A4), I got this for the score

and this for the part.

Thanks so much @Christian_R and @StevenJones01

I think I see what is happening. The file is coming in at its original small size, but Dorico is not dealing well with that, perhaps because the margins are greater than the actual page size or something like that. I will experiment tomorrow and set up a template to see if that works without having to reset anything for each example, since there are so many of these examples. Then I can do graphic slices for each one. But it looks like a lot more work that I had hoped for.

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