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Hello.

Sometimes I will try to access a file and instead of the pdf loading, there will be nothing except a blank screen. This is annoying, and I don't know if it's a problem with my browser or connection, or with the website. What can be done when this happens?

Beth

Update your browser, then update your version of the official Acrobat Reader/Professional application and try again. Sometimes the plugin (if you're using a browser that supports it) crashes (which usually displays an error message to that effect) and requires that the browser be restarted.

It may not be any of that because it often happens to me too. e.r.

That's hardly helpful. If you right-click and choose to download a PDF rather than open it in the browser, and it works, then it's either a browser issue or a PDF reader plugin issue.

This is going to seem stupidly simple, but I've done it on occasion, so make sure that the problem isn't that page 1 is blank for page turn reasons. Theoretically, odd-numbered pages are supposed to be right-side pages, and even-numbered pages are left-side pages. I've thought a document was blank a couple of times when I was just looking at a blank page 1.

steltz wrote:This is going to seem stupidly simple, but I've done it on occasion, so make sure that the problem isn't that page 1 is blank for page turn reasons. Theoretically, odd-numbered pages are supposed to be right-side pages, and even-numbered pages are left-side pages. I've thought a document was blank a couple of times when I was just looking at a blank page 1.

I'm curious as to why a blank blank first page would be included? I could understand if there was a title page, a blank page, and then the score, but a really blank page seems like an unnecessary inconvenience.

Blank pages for scores ARE pretty much useless, but for parts they are sometimes necessary to ensure page turns occur in the right places.

Eh, well they occasionally make it so if you view the PDF as two pages each, the primo and secundo parts are lined up right.