How to print a specific page

The program boasts with being able to export the songbook into a PDF in different formats, but what if you do not want to print the entire songbook? What if you changed only one song, or perhaps just added some new songs and do not want to print what has not changed?

Obviously you can export the entire songbook to a PDF and then specify what do you want to print in the printer dialog. However this sucks and it is not always an option.

The program does not exactly come with the option to export (and print) whatever you like, but it can be bent to your will.

Hiding songs

In the collection editor window you can hide songs from the songbook. This will not delete the songs but they will no longer be displayed and also they will not be included in an exported file. You can exclude songs from the PDF and then export the entire songbook. This is useful, but if you have a hundred songs and want to print a single page where you fixed some typos, you will not want to disable the other 96 songs just for this and then enable them again.

Previews

Besides the export files, there is another type of PDFs the program produces. The PDF preview feature (surprisingly) generates a PDF file and PDF files can be printed. Moreover, you have complete control over the songs in the preview files generated.

Each click of a PDF Preview button under normal circumstances generates a PDF file that is (under normal circumstances) stored at /temp/segment_preview.pdf, which is in the program's temp folder. Keep in mind that this file is overwritten every time you generate a preview, so you will have to copy it out of the temp folder. The temp folder is also regularly wiped clean, so beware.

A4 previews

The PDF Preview button in the collection editor generates an A4 portrait-oriented page with the song you select in the collection editor list.

A5 previews

In the main window the PDF Preview button generates an A5 landscape-oriented page that features both of the songs that are being displayed. You can choose which songs are being displayed by browsing the songbook or by manually settings the songs.

In the control panel on the right you can set the left song (Song 1) and the right song (Song 2) by entering its id to the input field and clicking the corresponding Apply button. Generating a preview will create a PDF of the very page you see, so you can set any two songs on either side and generate the page. To find a song id, look it up in the collection editor window.

Merging PDFs

If you need a single PDF file out of multiple pages you generated as previews, the program does currently not support that, but there are multiple online services that let you merge several PDF files for free and when you run out of free trial, you can always find another service.