[RobNY]

Today I loaded MobileSheets on my M3 Macbook.  Everything went fine and I was able to sync my library without issue.  Two things, however, have me stumped.

1. No matter what settings I alter, I cannot get the scores to advance when in Library (all songs) mode.  I get the "End of Song" toast message when my expectation is that it would move to the next song as it does on the iPad.  Note, this works fine when in setlist mode.

2. I cannot zoom into scores.  I can only scroll a score only by using the touchpad and click-dragging.  Nothing I have tried will zoom (tried Pinch, click-pinch, mouse drag [apple mouse], click-drag, mouse-scroll, etc).

Any help would be appreciated.

[Zubersoft]

1) Can you plase check if Settings->Library Settings->Automatically Load Next Song is checked? It sounds like it's unchecked but you are wanting to switch between songs outside of a setlist.

2) That's a little bit of an oversight on my part, as the app just listens for a pinch gesture to zoom, and I'm not sure if you can simulate that on a Mac with a mouse. The app was originally just designed for the iPad and iPhone, and MacOS support was just possible due to the fact that you can run iOS apps on MacOS with M1 and higher processors. I'll have to add code similar to what is available on Windows where you can hold Ctrl + scroll with the mouse wheel to zoom. I may add a zoom slider at some point as well.

Mike

[RobNY]

"Automatically Load" was checked.   I then went through all the settings screens on my iPad and compared with MacOS.  Turns out "Repeat Mode" was turned "on" for MacOS and that solved the issue.  Not sure how that happened (if I turned it on for MacOS or turned it off for iPad), but it fixed the song navigation issue I was having.

On the zoom front, this is sort of a big deal because many of my charts are 8 1/2 x 11 landscape and cropping alone will not give me an aspect ratio that fits the entire chart on the screen.   On iPads, I've been using zoom (allowing zoom past 100%) to tailor my chart display.

This brings up another potential question:  When sync'ing, are the crop and zoom settings also copied from device to device? (I know settings are not).  I'm asking because I have 3 different devices (2 iPads and 1 Mac) that each have different screen sizes and would require different zoom settings for the same chart.

[Zubersoft]

So, just to be clear, zooming in on a part of the page is really no different from just cropping the parts of the page that went off the screen. You can also tap the page order icon at the bottom of the song overlay and switch this to something like "Full screen" if you want the pages scretched to completely fill the screen. Having said that, I can look into addressing this with the next update which I'm preparing to release tomorrow. I'll just have to verify that something like Ctrl + mouse wheel (or Command + mouse wheel) works as intended on MacOS.

As far as synchronization, yes, crop and zoom settings are synchronized unless you uncheck the option to synchronize metadata. So you could consider unchecking that, although that would impact many other things too (like link points, smart buttons, bookmarks, etc).

Mike

[Zubersoft]

On a side note, you will also want to tap the second icon at the bottom left corner of the song overlay, then Zoom/Pan Settings and enable high-quality zooming if you are going to use it a lot like that. It will give you higher quality renderings of your pages.

Mike

[RobNY]

So, just to be clear, zooming in on a part of the page is really no different from just cropping the parts of the page that went off the screen. You can also tap the page order icon at the bottom of the song overlay and switch this to something like "Full screen" if you want the pages scretched to completely fill the screen. Having said that, I can look into addressing this with the next update which I'm preparing to release tomorrow. I'll just have to verify that something like Ctrl + mouse wheel (or Command + mouse wheel) works as intended on MacOS.

As far as synchronization, yes, crop and zoom settings are synchronized unless you uncheck the option to synchronize metadata. So you could consider unchecking that, although that would impact many other things too (like link points, smart buttons, bookmarks, etc).

Mike

It is really about zooming OUT so that the entire page fits on the screen.  On the iPad, I zoom out until the entire page is visible -- understanding that sometimes there will be right/left or top/bottom black space.  This is still preferred to scrolling or having to pan... And it works fine on the iPads.

[itsme]

Are you aware of cropping the pages and setting page scaling mode to "fit screen"?

[RobNY]

Are you aware of cropping the pages and setting page scaling mode to "fit screen"?

I am, yes.  It comes down to me having some PDF's that are just large enough vertically for MS to think it is a 'full page'.  As such, it sometimes is going into 1/2 page mode even on sheets that COULD fit onto a single page.  On the iPad, I can zoom out beyond 100% to fix these.  This doesn't work on the mac -- so I would have to turn OFF 1/2 page when landscape -- which I don't really want to do because on my "real" full size sheets this is a useful feature.

This is really just a nit at this point as turning off 1/2 page mode actually does fix most of the zooming issues on the Mac.  I have not tested whether this gets reset when the library is re-sync'd.

[RobNY]

I think that by using a different cropping strategy and turning off 1/2 page view, my sheets are displaying much better on macos even without having the ability to zoom.  This also somewhat addressed the variations in screen size among devices. 

I'd like to better understand the relationship between using "crop and fit to screen" when 1/2 page mode is on vs. off - because I think it was the 1/2 page mode that was causing me some issues early on...