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Hi Matt, Thanks for replyïng. I had a little discussion yesterday with my band members. Two of them and me (3) use BIAB already decades but we also use all 3 Adobe Acrobat Pro(9). We always tried to print to "Adobe PDF" in efforts to print to pdf every time a new release of BIAB was presented in the hope they solved the problem. We always noticed that most of the time text (title and chords) was missing in the pdf's 2 or more out of 3 prints so we decided already long ago to print to .jpg and import it into pdf. That's a work around. But one new member in our band told me he did always use "CutePDF writer" and he said never to experience a problem. So I tried today to print again to "Adobe PDF" and again I experienced the same problem. No text.
However when I did install a few days ago 2013 and tried to use the "Print to PDF" function the first time BIAB asked me to install a driver "PDF995" which I did of course. That function seems to work OK. So I'm was very pleased. So it seems to be a default problem between BIAB and "Adobe pdf". While experimenting today now I noticed that PDF995 seems to be some "sponsered driver" you need to buy it, the print is OK. So I installed CutePDF writer since it does not have this sponsering problem, but surprisingly it acts differently from PDF995 but the print is only ok with a single print.
I did try all drivers one by one in the "print set up" and did make 6 prints. 3 with normal "OK-Print" (also producing a pdf file of course) and 3 times with "Print to pdf" I noticed that the "Print to pdf" did automatically always choose PDF995, irellevant whatever setting has been choosen. I can see that since it is the only driver which opens with a yellow window at the right top side of BIAB saying "Printing to PDF.....". Then you need to choose in which directory you like to save it. After saving it opens automatically the saved pdf file.
Choosing "OK-Print" will choose the set driver. Of course if chosen PDF995, it follows the same procdure. If printing to Adobe pdf it just opens the window to choose the directory for saving. After saving it opens the pdf, with NO text printed. If choosen the CutePDF writer it follows the same procedure but does NOT open the saved pdf. The result is however the same so OK.
Now while choosing "Print multiple songs" all Adobe results are without text, so useless. Choosing "Print multiple songs" with the CutePDF writer it creates also only files with missing text, so useless as well. Only choosing PDF995 does print correct "multiple songs" except that the only way to struggle through all the time disturbing advertizing resulting it sometimes did save files under wrong names (unbelievable). So the only way to get it all right is to buy it. So far my experience today with BIAB 2013. (XP Sp3)
If one uses "Print multiple songs" and you like to get most songs on one page you need to remember in the song how it is organised to fit to one page. So in options e.g. you set the number of bars at the screen. This seems to be remembered in the song. Although I'm not aware of what is beïng remembered and what is NOT beïng remembered from all the possible settings. It seems that e.g. the "Notation Fonts" (in the same window) is NOT beïng remembered since if you change that it stays the same for all songs.
Trying to get a song into one page will at least effect the font Size (def.) = 24 option and the number of staves. So that will be the least 2 settings more which should be stored into a song. I should not include More... || margins since this is something which needs to be set differently for paper then for tablets. I think that basicly all other options should be the choice of the user if he starts printing since he probably always want it to be the same for all his songs. So including the "number of bars" it makes 3 properties to be stored into the song in total. That's what I can think of right now, but remember my experience with "all" BIAB options is limited.
Since I've learned now printing using a correct driver like PDF995 while setting up the printer the "print mutiple songs to pdf" is actually not an important gadget anymore. Only I need to install a bought version for multiple song printing.
Musicians and music publishers are still wasting too much paper...come on men we live in the digitised age...Wake up!
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