Creating a booklet of songs and words/drama
I've created some songs, and want to insert pages of dialogue/reflections in-between the songs. Is there an easy way of doing this? So far I have created PDFs of the songs and I suppose I could do the same with the pages of script in between, but then I'd struggle to add page numbers/headers, etc (it's hard to do that with a PDF) and format it so it looks good. I have a Macbook.
One option might to insert the music as images (pngs) into Word and then manipulate it, but then the music looks really small, and I would have to fiddle with page margins etc.
I have around 55 pages altogether of music and script/dialogue/reflections in-between. I guess eventually I would create a spiral bound booklet of the final edit.
Any help would be very gratefully welcomed! Thank you.
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Just to add, I think in the past I have used text frames in between songs (with whole pages of text), and a reminder how to do this would be much appreciated. As well as a reminder on how to create multiple songs in the same document. Thank you.
In reply to Just to add, I think in the… by Darren Garfield
I would "print" my doc as a PDF, and then insert my additional pages in a PDF editor.
In reply to I would "print" my doc as a… by mikey12045
Thank you. Sadly though, PDF editors on Mac aren't cheap!
In reply to Thank you. Sadly though, PDF… by Darren Garfield
No, they aren’t cheap. They’re free! You can easily do this in Preview.
In reply to No, they aren’t cheap. They… by mikey12045
Indeed, although my struggle is adding page numbers. Although adding page numbers is fine within the score, I also want to add them to the pages of script, and I'm not sure how to successfully do this.
In reply to Indeed, although my struggle… by Darren Garfield
You can add page numbers in Preview, although you would have to do them individually. If you do a search for PDF Paginator, and you may find an app for it, although probably not free.
In reply to You can add page numbers in… by mikey12045
Thank you. I'll take a look and have a go.
It's hard work in MS but possible using text frames. The result means that you have page numbers and headers/footers - plus a playable score book which is a nice bonus. You can also print or convert such scores to PDF.
You may be able to borrow some ideas from this score which was manually built, based on a website document.
https://musescore.com/user/28842914/scores/7526063
Based on https://takadimi.net/documents/Takadimi%20short%20guide%20for%20Web.pdf
In reply to It's hard work in MS but… by yonah_ag
Many thanks. It would be good if the use of frames was a little more intuitive, rather than a hard chore with very much hit and miss results, although that may be due to my lack of understanding/skill! Inputting music is fantastic, but adding block text is less so. Three things, amongst others, I really struggle with is
a] doing a copy and paste from word to a text frame, as it just seems to go outside the frame (wrapping of text would be helpful),
b] and of course all the formatting (tabs, etc) disappear. A choice of different fonts would be good too, although again I might have missed where fonts are located in MS.
c] adding frames 'above' the top of the score.
The attached screenshot is an example off my issue! Any help would be appreciated.
In reply to Many thanks. It would be… by Darren Garfield
I've fiddled with text frames and properties, and managed to get it looking much better (attached). Would be good to get bigger gapping between the lines though.
In reply to I've fiddled with text… by Darren Garfield
There is a line spacing option for text formatting.
In reply to Many thanks. It would be… by Darren Garfield
Frames are a bit painful and it would be nice if they supported more formatting and better pasting.