02-20-2024, 02:57 AM
One of the ensembles I play with distributes PDFs with all parts (for a given composition) in a single PDF. I have been looking for the best way to handle this. If I always played the same part, it would be no problem because I can just select the page(s) for that one part.
The problem is that MobileSheets saves this page selection with the song itself. Let's say I have a setlist for July 4 that includes America the Beautiful, and I know I am playing trombone-3, I have no problem setting that up to display only the trombone-3 page(s). But if I have another setlist for July 15 playing the same song, and on July 15 I am playing Trombone-2, this doesn't work. That is to say, I can't prepare my setlists in advance because one will override the other.
I realize I can manually go through the entire library and break all the original PDFs into multiple PDFs, one for each part, but that is a lot of work. Am I missing something important here? Is there some way to do this without having to crack open each PDF externally to MobileSheets?
The problem is that MobileSheets saves this page selection with the song itself. Let's say I have a setlist for July 4 that includes America the Beautiful, and I know I am playing trombone-3, I have no problem setting that up to display only the trombone-3 page(s). But if I have another setlist for July 15 playing the same song, and on July 15 I am playing Trombone-2, this doesn't work. That is to say, I can't prepare my setlists in advance because one will override the other.
I realize I can manually go through the entire library and break all the original PDFs into multiple PDFs, one for each part, but that is a lot of work. Am I missing something important here? Is there some way to do this without having to crack open each PDF externally to MobileSheets?
I use MobileSheets on a Chromebook notebook because this has a larger screen than any tablet I can afford.