I opened a file today and the page view was completely blank in all modes. Switching to galley view makes everything appear and work as normal. It was fine last night, and I saved before quitting - the only thing I can think of that may have disrupted things is that I force closed the Steinberg Hub during shutdown, but I definitely saved and closed the file before that happened. Any ideas what I did to break it?
Here’s what it looks like on opening in page view:
Not sure as to how exactly the one thing caused the other, but I noticed that the first “bar” was a) weirdly long and b) empty. Deleting it (Shift+B, -1) fixed the issue.
Bravissimo! I think it may have held over some weird formatting settings from the Photoscore XML export which didn’t materialise until I’d deleted the bars before it. Thanks for solving that one
There are a lot of notational oddities in the rest of the file as well, which might take quite some time to track down and fix. With a bit of experience, re-typing from scratch is often quicker than sorting out everything that gets lost in translation.
In this case I just needed some quick notes in Dorico for reference, they’re not staying in the final version. To give Photoscore its due - putting in a PDF and getting an XML out of the other end (including correcting rhythm/tuplet mistakes) took about 20 minutes. If you could recreate that score from scratch in Dorico in less than 20 minutes I’d be pretty impressed!
If you include the time you lost by having to post here, I can definitely beat that And who knows what other invisible guff may still be lurking in this file to cause you trouble down the line…
I am having the identical problem. I tried to find the sorts of things that were involved in the previous solution, but was unsuccessful.
This is a nonet. I have worked on four of the layouts without problems, and I have also opened all the other layouts without problems at another time. This problem arose all at once, so it seems as if something like a cosmic ray corrupted 7 of the layouts. I tried saving the flows separately but it didn’t help. For the sake of efficiency I’m attaching just one flow here. The affected layouts are Clarinet through Contrabass.
Can’t attach! I’ve cut the score down to 5 measures from the middle of the first movement and it’s still 4.4 MB! I have a backup from yesterday which behaves perfectly normally, so I won’t lose much work. Thanks Dorico for automatic backups! But I’m still curious about what happened. If anyone would like to take a look, I can send the 5-measure version (or more) via Blip to a Mac user if you’ll message me privately with an email address.
Daniel kindly looked at the file and replied thus:
Open the Layout Options dialog, and select each of the troublesome layouts in turn: in the Page Templates section of the Page Setup page, you’ll see that the ‘Page template set’ is set to nothing. Set that to the ‘Part default’ page template set and click Apply, and all will be well.
My only excuse for not seeing this was that it was the middle of the night. Thanks, Daniel!
I’d mark it as solved but the solved checkmark is already used for a different solution to this problem.
And who knows what other invisible guff may still be lurking in this file to cause you trouble down the line…
Thanks, Daniel!