08-15-2024, 07:15 PM
Hi there,
i am glad to report that I have recently been able to win a few new MSP users in my musical tribe. As a result, we are exchanging installation/usage tips and tricks which may result in the odd forum escalation.
here is #1 - apologies if this should be a known issue - : assume I have a pdf consisting of several tunes and wish to select these individually in MSP. The following works like a charm:
- use some pdf editor to add pdf compatible bookmarks to the beginning of each tune, then use Import/import pdf bookmarks and voila, you can now see each tune bookmark, navigate to it, search for it... just like documented and expected.
however, not all users habe the tools available to annotate the pdf files prior to importing. One of my friends saw that there is a boomark tool inside MSP and used it like so: Import a multi tune pdf as a pdf (ie without bookmarks), then set individual bookmarks via the bookmark tool. You can see those bookmarks alright, but they will never show up in the tune data base. So two things with the same name and a very similar UI do different things. Unfortunately, the docs mention bookmarks only generically, so it is not clear for newcomers to tell these two apart. Would it not make sense to rename MSP internal bookmarks to avoid confusion?
or is there a way to escalate MSP internal bookmarks to the tune data base?
thanks!
i am glad to report that I have recently been able to win a few new MSP users in my musical tribe. As a result, we are exchanging installation/usage tips and tricks which may result in the odd forum escalation.
here is #1 - apologies if this should be a known issue - : assume I have a pdf consisting of several tunes and wish to select these individually in MSP. The following works like a charm:
- use some pdf editor to add pdf compatible bookmarks to the beginning of each tune, then use Import/import pdf bookmarks and voila, you can now see each tune bookmark, navigate to it, search for it... just like documented and expected.
however, not all users habe the tools available to annotate the pdf files prior to importing. One of my friends saw that there is a boomark tool inside MSP and used it like so: Import a multi tune pdf as a pdf (ie without bookmarks), then set individual bookmarks via the bookmark tool. You can see those bookmarks alright, but they will never show up in the tune data base. So two things with the same name and a very similar UI do different things. Unfortunately, the docs mention bookmarks only generically, so it is not clear for newcomers to tell these two apart. Would it not make sense to rename MSP internal bookmarks to avoid confusion?
or is there a way to escalate MSP internal bookmarks to the tune data base?
thanks!