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I have some large PDFs (such as a Beatles anthology) with over 100 songs. The PDFs have bookmarks which are in alphabetic order. I have imported the PDF (as a single song) into MobileSheets with the "convert PDF bookmarks to MobileSheets bookmarks" option on. When I view the bookmarks, they always appear in page number order. This makes it time consuming to find a specific song. An option to respect the PDF order (vs. defaulting to page order) would be very helpful.
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Eric
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You could use pdf2csv by Sciurius
https://zubersoft.com/mobilesheets/forum...ht=pdf2csv
to convert the bookmarks to a CSV file.
With CSV import the book still is a single PDF but the songs show up as separate songs within MobileSheets
LibreOffice Calc is imho the best tool to manipulate the CSV as you like.
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Your suggestion makes sense Eric - I can look into adding an option for that when time allows.
Thanks,
Mike
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Thank you, itsme, that's good to know. I am currently using the "import PDF" functionality to create entries for selected songs from each book (pdf).
However, I'm trying to avoid filling up my song library with *all* the songs in artist anthologies. So right now, for example, I have one "song" for my Beatles anthology and I've used PDF Import to pull out a dozen individual songs that I play regularly. But if on a whim (or by request) I decide I want to play song X by the Beatles, having an alphabetic list of bookmarks would make finding the song easier.
That said, all the bookmarked songs show up in the Bookmarks tab, so if I know the specific song I'm looking for from an anthology, I can search for it there.
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Perhaps you could use collections?
All your songs will show on the Songs tab but you can choose your "normal" songs from smaller subsets of those available - these subsets are collections.
Geoff
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