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Adding pages to a song from a pdf
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My scheme for getting my music into msp (I see that's the abbreviation everyone uses here, so I'll try to be one of the cool kids too!) is to either rip the bookmarks out of a pdf or scan/retype the table of contents, then put that into a spreadsheet and create a csv.  That gives me the initial page number of each song.

title;page;genre
Boot Scootin' Boogie;45;Line dance

In the interest of efficiency I don't bother to page through the pdf at this point to find the end page of a multi-page song before importing the csv.  I figure I'll want to do some page cropping when I get around to playing it so I might as well do all of the fix-up at that point.

Then I get to where I'm going to play this from msp for the first time and the first thing I need to do is get it to show me all of the pages.  So is Boot Scootin' Boogie 4 pages long or 5?  Maybe 3?  6? I go to the files tab and change the pages to be 45-50, click the forward arrow enough times to find out I put in one too many and re-enter the pages as 45-49.

Question:  Is there a way to preview that or somehow just start moving forward through the pdf from page 45 until I find the end and could tell the program "this is the last page" without having to keep re-entering new numbers as the end page until I actually find it?

The work-around is to enter more pages than it could possibly be and then scroll back through that little preview window until I get to the actual end, then enter that number as the end number, but it seems inefficient.
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Adding pages to a song from a pdf - by Frank Cox - 04-12-2022, 05:41 PM
RE: Adding pages to a song from a pdf - by itsme - 04-12-2022, 09:07 PM



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