Lloyd, yes the pdf realbooks are fakebook style charts like Biab produces, most are one line of staff with the melody and chord symbols written above.

Mac, I think we have the same realbook pdf file. It's got 12 books in it with a master index. You're right I may not need anything else. I just met again with the guy I bought the Fujitsu from because the battery was bad and he had another one for me. The guy is a total geek who knows way more about these things than I ever will. I showed him that file and he showed me how using the stylus I can swipe the screen to land pretty close to where I need to be in that index. Example, he swiped it fast bottom to top and almost instantly it scrolled all the way to the last page, swipe it slower and/or not the whole screen and it's less. He said with a little practice I can control it pretty good. Just messing around I found specific songs in a few seconds. This the entire index, not just specific books. That may be good enough and for page turns the screen has physical page up/down buttons right on it. Just reach to the screen with either hand and push the button. I do that anyway with paper, no big deal.

Here's something else he showed me that may or may not be old hat to some of you guys. I asked about editing a particular chart, the pc has Onenote on it that can layer stuff over top of whatever you have up and save it but when he asked me exactly what I was trying to do (good question, one we ask here all the time) he said why not use the Snip tool. I never heard of it. What it is is a screen pixel capture thing. Whatever is on the screen can be captured but the beauty of it is not the whole screen if you don't want that. Just put the stylus anywhere and swipe and it creates a box so I found one chart that was smaller than the others so I swiped it, made a nice box around the parts I needed and pasted it into Paint. There he showed me how to completely mess with it like placing the stylus on an empty space next to one of the chord symbols clicking on "match background" and using the pen to "erase" by painting over it, then switching back to writing in black and simply writing by hand the new chord symbol. Or, you can just write whatever you want anywhere you want on that page in any color. You can blow the image up to write on it and when it's back to the regular size the new chord looked perfect. He also said want to copy something, just draw a box around it and use the normal copy/paste. So, want to tag the last 4 bars? Draw a box around them and paste it to the bottom of the chart and write the word Tag. This happened much faster than me writing about it right now and that's much faster than messing around in Biab creating a tag ending. I had no idea we could do that with a locked pdf file. He explained the original source doc doesn't matter, Snip is grabbing pixels from the screen not the original doc. Sort of like us recording "what you hear". And once those pixels are in Paint you can do absolutely anything graphically with it. Snip is apparently a Win 7 thing, I don't think XP has that.

This just blew me away, this is a much faster and easier way to edit Biab charts that didn't quite print the way we wanted. No need to first print it out, make our marks by hand, rescan it to send to somebody or store it. Snip and Paint does it all digitally and I just save it as normal and do whatever with it. You have to have a graphics digital pen to do this but those are available via USB for a desktop if somebody doesn't have a graphics tablet already. Man, the things I learn just by talking to somebody who really knows this stuff.

Bob

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