Creating a PDF file for Children's POD Songbook
What would be the most straightforward way to create a multi page PDF for a Print on Demand songbook?
It's just a simple children's songbook with an introduction, table of content and less than a dozen scores, and page numbers.
I don't seem to be able to find this instruction in the MS handbook but perhaps I am searching the wrong terms.
If there's a tutorial that someone can point to, that would be great.
Thanks an bunch.
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Sadly, the best way to do this is in Adobe Acrobat (or another program that can create PDFs). You'll have to make PDFs of each individual song in MuseScore and PDFs of the non-score pages in a word processing program. Then combine them in Acrobat.
It used to have a way to combine files into a "book", but that was apparently removed in version 3 (I think 3!)
In reply to Sadly, the best way to do… by TheHutch
The songbook needed them all to have the same instruments in the same order, though.
I’ve begun work to do so with Tₑχ/LᴬTᴇΧ as I don’t have Adobe software, but I’ve not finished it since there was no funding, and in the end, the project for which it would have been dissolved suddenly anyway. The idea is the same, though: at certain places in the document, I include pages from mu͒-generated PDFs, and pdflatex renders all page numbers, the front and back matter, title page, preface, table of contents, and indicēs. For this, I beforehand edited the
.mscxfiles to remove the page numbers from the footers, then exported one PDF that starts on page 1 and one that starts on page 2 so I have even‑ and odd-starting PDFs, and wrote some Teχ macros so it chooses the correct one based on the current page automatically, and also fills in the indicēs from metadata in the scores.I would do it in a suitable pdf-tool. Acrobat professional is, of course, a possibility but, to my opinion, much too expensive for private use. I've Kofax Power PDF with almost as many features as Acrobat professional but much cheaper. Completely free alternatives are also available.
In reply to I would do it in a suitable… by TomStrand
Too bad that MS can't do this in a more straightforward way.
For now I am exporting separate PDFs for each score and building a songbook in Pages on my Mac.
I guess there's really no way to do two or more consecutive scores, on a single document, in MS, each with a separate title, etc, right?
That would be an awesome upgrade, I think.
In reply to Too bad that MS can't do… by Adinol
Add a Section break and a text frame after each piece. As an alternative to a text frame, use a vertical frame and add whatever text you need.
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/using-sections-multiple-movements-o…
And https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/using-frames-additional-content