need to have 1230 original songs as separate pdf's and also as musicxml

[paulreisler]

Device Type

1. Mac

We are giving our Kid Pan Alley as well as my archives to George Mason University library Special Collections. I need to have a separate pdf as well as a separate musicxml for each song in irealpro. i put them all in one playlist, but the only way i can seem to export is through export playlist/pdf which puts them all in one big file. also there is no musicxml in export playlist. export chord chart doesn't work with multiple songs. Is there any way to do this without doing it all by hand. Thanks so much. Paul Reisler

 

[pdxdjazz]

I don’t know of any iRp shortcut to do what you describe.

There may be a 3rd party pdf manager, perhaps even online, that could take your pdf “book” and turn it into a file of individual pdf’s.

No idea about your musicxml dilemma.

Please let us know what you wind up doing
)BOB

 

[dflat]

There is nothing in iReal Pro which will do this for you, however Keyboard Maestro and other similar apps can be used so you can script what you want to do. (Windows users often use AutoHotKey.)
For example:
Click this location (on the screen), select x from the menu (or arrow x times), wait for 0.3 seconds (while it does something), save, wait (while it saves), arrow to next song ... [then repeat until finished]
For simple scripts, you can set it to record and it records what you are doing, then you can stop it recording and test it with the next song so you might not need to know too much about scripting (at least in theory, depending on what you are wanting to do.)

You might be able to use Mac Shortcuts (Automator) to do this, although I have not looked into it.
I know Keyboard Maestro works because I found an old script I used with iReal Pro for something similar.

As Bob said, you should be able to find a PDF program to separate each page into individual files (make sure it automatically names each from the Song title. Otherwise if you get scripting (as above) to work, you can simply export a PDF in a script in the same way or within the same script.

Someone at George Mason might be able to help you with scripting.
[Just a comment here, for the script I created, the mouse location click relates to my size screen at a particular location, so I had the app full screen so if I ever needed to use the script again, it in theory would work with that click location (meaning a dropdown menu), although changing it is easy, which might be needed if the UI of the app changed since using it last.]