[edward50]

I haven't got this to work. I have checked 'join files' and OK and I have a message 'Successfully exported /storage/emulated/0/mspro/**********.pdf' and have touched OK, but I can't find the new pdf. When I go back to the song to edit it, the three original pdfs are there but nothing else. Any suggestions, please, as to what I might have missed?

[edward50]

Sorry Geoff, I hadn't seen your message when replying to Mike. I'll look into those.

[edward50]

Thanks Geoff, PDF Merge has done the job.

[itsme]

PDF Split and Merge https://pdfsam.org/ is another PDF toolbox program with many features to merge, split and re-combine  PDF files.

[edward50]

Having further explored the scanning software on my computer, I now have options for scanning new material into a multi-page pdf as well as for combining existing pdfs. Many thanks for all the helpful replies.

[k-pfeiffer]

Hi, I have a related but slightly different need. I've got three songs in MSP, each with its own PDF file. I don't need to combine the PDFs, but I'd like to combine the three songs into one song (with three files attached). What would be the easiest way to do this that would also preserve my annotations?

I just tried the export file including annotations, which works fine (re-importing into a single song), but the problem here is that the annotations are now embedded in the PDF (it seems) and no longer editable.

Many thanks!

[Zubersoft]

Unfortunately, there isn't an option at the moment to merge songs, so if you want to preserve your annotations, you would have to do exactly what you already tried - export everything to a single PDF. Just remember that if you enable the option in the annotations editor to "Enable editing of embedded PDF annotations", then you can still interact with the annotations that were written into the PDF.

Mike

[k-pfeiffer]

Unfortunately, there isn't an option at the moment to merge songs, so if you want to preserve your annotations, you would have to do exactly what you already tried - export everything to a single PDF. Just remember that if you enable the option in the annotations editor to "Enable editing of embedded PDF annotations", then you can still interact with the annotations that were written into the PDF.

Aha, yes, that -- "Enable editing of embedded PDF annotations" -- should work fine (I forgot about it). It's not that I intend to extensively change these annotations, but that should give me the option to delete something if necessary. 

But I see no need to export to a single PDF. I'll simply add all three PDFs to a single 'song', which is exactly what I was looking for. (This was a case where I imported three movements of a single work and later realized it made much more sense for me to keep them together in a single 'song'.)

Many thanks!

[k-pfeiffer]

Dear Mike,

This worked perfectly -- was able to export four of five movements to a local directory and then immediately re-import them into the song file of the first movement, which I accordingly renamed. Took less time to do than to write this message. And editing the embedded annotations (e.g., in this case a deletion) also worked great.

Thanks again!

[Ike Eldie]

Hello,

I am curious if there have been any features added in the last few years that would allow for combination of existing songs including layered annotations?

To add some context: I have three separate files relating to an opera that I want to combine. I have two files containing isolated arias, recits, etc. from one role each, and then I have a complete score. I want to disperse the two "role" files into the complete score, replacing certain blank pages of the score with their counterparts in the already marked-up "role" pages.

Here's what I've already tried:

• Exporting as pdfs and combining into one file with "enable editing of embedded pdf annotations," and then rearranging pages: gets close, but the annotations lose quality (lines get broken up), and they also lose their layering, which I would love to preserve if possible
  

• One one of the annotated files: edit -> files -> rearrange pages -> dot menu on one of the pages -> insert file from library:
  This preserves the annotations and layers of the original file, but not the added one.

Unfortunately, combining them into one PDF before making any annotations wasn't an option.

I don't necessarily need these songs to be in one file at the end, but it would be very helpful to be able to click through (for example) score pages 1-15, role A pages 1-3, score pages 18-25, role B pages 1-6, etc. while still having access to their layers and full-quality annotations

Thank you!

P.S. a feature that allows for the selecting and dragging of multiple pages at once in the page order editor would be great!

[Zubersoft]

No, unfortunately no features have been added to merge existing songs and their annotations. Adding something for that is still on the list. For now, embedding annotations and then merging the files is the only option.

Mike