11-05-2023, 06:45 PM
Hi Bronz,
you said "Exporting files generates copies with hard embedded (ineditable) graphics. The same with printing." That is not really true. In the export menu you can select if you want to include the annotations at all. If you do, they are rendered as pdf annotations in the exact same way they are drawn into the pdf by the function "Automatically embed annotations".
So you can already export a number of songs while writing your annotations in as pdf-annotation by e.g. selecting all songs of a setlist and then using the export-function.
Of course I don't really know your specific use case, but I would also want to add that when you embed all your annotations all the time it makes it way more inconvenient to edit/change annotations for two reasons: First, you then have to activate the option to edit pdf-annotations in edit mode. This takes a longer time to open songs in some (many?) cases and you might accidentally erase something with your eraser that was before secured from this mistake. Second, I have had several occurrences of pdf-embedded annotations that move very slightly every time MobileSheets loads them to edit them. Over time your annotations might not look the way they were supposed to if you have very fine annotations that have to be at the precise correct place.
As I said, everyone has their own way of setting up their systems and configuring MobileSheets, but I am not really sure an option like the one you are requesting would be such a time saver as there is already a way to export lots of songs at the same time while writing the annotations in and it may confuse users to want it and then have the downsides I talked about.
you said "Exporting files generates copies with hard embedded (ineditable) graphics. The same with printing." That is not really true. In the export menu you can select if you want to include the annotations at all. If you do, they are rendered as pdf annotations in the exact same way they are drawn into the pdf by the function "Automatically embed annotations".
So you can already export a number of songs while writing your annotations in as pdf-annotation by e.g. selecting all songs of a setlist and then using the export-function.
Of course I don't really know your specific use case, but I would also want to add that when you embed all your annotations all the time it makes it way more inconvenient to edit/change annotations for two reasons: First, you then have to activate the option to edit pdf-annotations in edit mode. This takes a longer time to open songs in some (many?) cases and you might accidentally erase something with your eraser that was before secured from this mistake. Second, I have had several occurrences of pdf-embedded annotations that move very slightly every time MobileSheets loads them to edit them. Over time your annotations might not look the way they were supposed to if you have very fine annotations that have to be at the precise correct place.
As I said, everyone has their own way of setting up their systems and configuring MobileSheets, but I am not really sure an option like the one you are requesting would be such a time saver as there is already a way to export lots of songs at the same time while writing the annotations in and it may confuse users to want it and then have the downsides I talked about.