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This is more obvious when printing multiple songs. And nowadays I print to pdf for my iPad (or tablet). So it is also obvious to have a "Print multiple songs to pdf..." function. The more because when merging pdf's into one book with Adobe Acrobat it creates "AUTOMATICALLY" bookmarks which can be used for searching in your pdf book. How easy can (could) it be!



Well, Acrobat creates markers for each file it has added/merge together. So if you had your PDFs named SONG1.PDF to SONG9.PDF it would have generate bookmarks with those names.

No sure the scope of the program really should encompass this sort of feature. Band in a Box doesn't open multiple files within the program. I guess you could make tweak the jukebox to do it. It sounds like a thing not a lot of people would do, and besides, if there is an iPad App by PGMusic that will open Band in a Box files and display them, isn't that sort of redundant?

A much simpler way would be to script it. On a Mac, it would be pretty easy to get an AppleScript/Automator script created that could open a group of files in a folder with Band in a Box, and print them to PDF to a certain directory, and then run Acrobat to merge them all together. I already have a script that sorta does a lot of this already (the file names in a directory and merging the PDFs). It would be pretty easy to adapt to actually open Band in a Box files and do the other parts.

On PC, I would hope there is some sort of scripting thing you could do that is similar.

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