[Alstromeria]

[I’ve been searching through the forum, and although I see a few similar/related posts, the suggestions have seemed too complex and I’d like to ask a fresh question… forgive me!]

My hella-long choral PDFs come from all over the place, including IMSLP, and I don’t generally edit them separately to add bookmarks directly to the PDF before importing to MobileSheets. I tend to do most of my work on my iPad anyway.

When I navigate & add bookmarks to these scores in Mobilesheets, it’s a huge PITA to ensure that the page numbers match the PDF page numbers. I really don’t want page 1 to be the front cover of the score - page 1 might actually be page 8 in the PDF. I want to be able to navigate quickly to a specific page in the score while my choir director is yelling at us. Doing the math in my head isn’t great under pressure!

It seems like it shouldn’t be too complex from a coding standpoint to include a per-PDF option that permits us to to set page 1, on the page we designate as page 1. A tickbox or radio button & offset integer field in the score properties / in the add bookmark section could indicate the settings.

[Zubersoft]

While that is something I plan on adding, should those first pages then be displayed with a negative page number? Just curious how users will expect to see that.

Mike

[rockcreek]

(Puts choral singer hat on) 

How do you feel about lower case Roman numerals? That would still allow you to enumerate those pages count-forward.

[Zubersoft]

I'm not opposed to that if that is what people prefer.

On a side note - if you add PDF page labels and enable Settings->Display Settings->Show PDF Page Labels, then the MobileSheets will display those labels instead of just the page numbers, allowing you to have page offsets. In Adobe Acrobat, for example, you have can have the first 5 pages use roman numerals, then the pages after that will be numbers starting at 1.

Mike