The OP has 200 individual songs to include in a book. That means 200 titles, 200 lyricist/composer fields to enter and position, and possibly copyright info or text boxes with instructions.
The computer can put all the individual PDFs into one PDF file and number them automatically, with no extra messing around with titles, etc. I’d definitely go with combining PDFs. This is what the computer is for, for sure. Christopher > On Tue Dec 13, at TuesdayDec 13 1:44 PM, Robert Patterson > <rob...@robertgpatterson.com> wrote: > > FWIW: > > If you make sure that both (all) file you are merging have the exact same > staff list and staff properties, then Score Merger works pretty well. This > is likely if all the files came from the same template. Otherwise it may > take some messing with. > > So far what I've found that it messes up is: > > 1. Lyric text gets mangled, but if each file has different > verse/chorus/section numbers, you can recover pretty well using tools in my > plugin set. (I've added a plugin to make changing lyric numbers really > easy.) > 2. Staff baselines don't get transferred. I've added a plugin to do that. > (You'll have to manually set the doc-level baselines to match.) > 3. Staff styles are transferred incorrectly. I had to remove and reapply > them on the merged score. > 4. You may have to mess with staff groups. I've added some functions to > help with that. (But if the groups match in all files there does not appear > to be a problem.) > 5. You may have to edit with multipage headers like page numbers and > measure number regions. > > Still, I've managed to do it with results I am happy with. ymmv > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 7:24 AM, Robert Patterson < > rob...@robertgpatterson.com> wrote: > >> Because collating and processing are what computers are for. I'd rather >> spend my time writing a program to massage the files than constantly >> collating and processing by hand. Which is what I've done. >> >> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 1:41 AM, Steve Parker <st...@pinkrat.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> Hi Robert, >>> >>>> On 12 Dec 2016, at 20:24, Robert Patterson <rob...@robertgpatterson.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I refuse to do post processing with a pdf editor. I would be willing to >>>> simply combine pdf's output by Finale, but any further post-processing >>> than >>>> that is unacceptable to me. >>> >>> Not to start one… but why? >>> I’ve always collated these kind of things outside Finale. >>> >>> Steve P. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> Finale@shsu.edu >>> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >>> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >>> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
