11-07-2022, 02:00 PM
The sheet music for a musical that I'm about to do is 115 pages long and is contained in three different PDF's. I have made extensive annotations that have taken me hours of time to enter. And now, the director has changed the sequence of the songs a bit.
What I have now as the files is (not the real names):
file1.pdf pages 1-48
file2.pdf pages 1-1
file3.pdf pages 1-66
So you can see that comes out in MobileSheets as pages 1-115. They contain 25 songs.
What needs to happen is that one of the songs gets replaced by one of the other numbers. So, using those three files, I might have something like (not the real numbers, but close enough to discuss it):
file1.pdf pages 1-20
file3.pdf pages 30-31
file1.pdf pages 23-48
file2.pdf pages 1-1
file3.pdf pages 1-66
That still comes out to 115 pages.
So here's my question. How are the annotations tied to the pages? Are they tied to the pages as rendered in the final song? In other words, would they still be tied to the original MobileSheets page number 1-115? That would make the annotations mostly correct exept for the "moved" pages. Or, are they tied to the page number within the original files by file name? That would make the annotations follow the original pages. Or are they tied to the first file in the list, the 2nd file in the list, the 3rd file in the list, etc. The first two ways would be okay, but the 3rd one would screw up my annotations.
Another way of doing this might be to replace the two pages in file1.pdf and just replace that file in the MobileSheets folder. Then, I'd have to redo the annotations on those two pages. I think I have an app that will split and combine PDF files.
So, bottom line is, what's the best way to do this so that I don't mess up my annotations? Actually, if the replaced song had the annotations from the song it replaced, that's not a biggie. It's only two pages.
What I have now as the files is (not the real names):
file1.pdf pages 1-48
file2.pdf pages 1-1
file3.pdf pages 1-66
So you can see that comes out in MobileSheets as pages 1-115. They contain 25 songs.
What needs to happen is that one of the songs gets replaced by one of the other numbers. So, using those three files, I might have something like (not the real numbers, but close enough to discuss it):
file1.pdf pages 1-20
file3.pdf pages 30-31
file1.pdf pages 23-48
file2.pdf pages 1-1
file3.pdf pages 1-66
That still comes out to 115 pages.
So here's my question. How are the annotations tied to the pages? Are they tied to the pages as rendered in the final song? In other words, would they still be tied to the original MobileSheets page number 1-115? That would make the annotations mostly correct exept for the "moved" pages. Or, are they tied to the page number within the original files by file name? That would make the annotations follow the original pages. Or are they tied to the first file in the list, the 2nd file in the list, the 3rd file in the list, etc. The first two ways would be okay, but the 3rd one would screw up my annotations.
Another way of doing this might be to replace the two pages in file1.pdf and just replace that file in the MobileSheets folder. Then, I'd have to redo the annotations on those two pages. I think I have an app that will split and combine PDF files.
So, bottom line is, what's the best way to do this so that I don't mess up my annotations? Actually, if the replaced song had the annotations from the song it replaced, that's not a biggie. It's only two pages.