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Exporting songs as PDF

When you export a SongSheet-native song to PDF, you have control over much of the layout and formatting. The live preview updates whenever you change an option, allowing you to easily see exactly how your song will be rendered.

These settings do not apply to PDF, RTF or Word files. If you want to change how they are converted to PDF, try converting them to SongSheet-native format first.

Export options

You are able to customize:

• Paper controls the paper size, orientation, and margins.
• Song layout controls columns and the space between columns.
• Import styles from theme applies song styling from the app themes.
• Song formatting controls the layout, visibility, and formatting of the song title, artist, key and capo, stanza names, chords, lyrics, comments, and footer.

Paper

• Size: Options include US Legal, US Letter, Tabloid, A4, A3, and A5.
• Orientation: Portrait or Landscape
• Margins: For A-series paper sizes, margins range from 5mm to 40mm. For US Letter, US Legal, and Tabloid, margins range from 0.25” to 2.00”.

Song layout

• Columns: 1 or 2
• Gutter: 5mm to 20mm (A-series paper) or 0.25” to 1.00” (Imperial sized paper)
• Column width: A read-only field displaying the resulting width in either mm or inches.

Import styles from theme

Tap on Import styles from theme to apply a theme onto the song formatting options.

Song formatting

Tap a row in Song formatting to open its options for changing the formatting of that type of text. A sample line shows the outcome. The formatting options include:

• Font
• Size
• Color

In addition, each feature has its own unique options. The feature-specific options are:

• Song title: Only formatting controls.
• Artist: Only visibility (on/off) and formatting controls. If the song has a year, it is printed after the artist name, separated by a dot, in the same formatting. The year is printed even when Artist is off, and it does not have its own switch.
• Key + Capo: Separate visibility (on/off) controls for the key and the capo, with shared formatting controls. Capo is unavailable while Key is off, and the capo is only printed when the song has a key and a capo set.
• Stanza names: The names can be placed in the left margin of the song, inline with the lyrics, or turned off entirely.
• Chords: These have an on/off control, but you can also Always leave space for chords. When turned on, this setting will ensure that lyric lines without chords will still have adequate space for chords to appear.
• Lyrics: Here the line spacing can be adjusted, controlling the spacing everywhere in the song: between lyric lines, chords, and comments; between the song title, artist, and key and capo; and between lines in the footer.
• Comments: These can be turned off, and they also have an optional background color that can be set or cleared.
• Footer: Only visibility (on/off) and formatting controls. The footer contains the left-aligned CCLI number and copyright, and the right-aligned page number. The page number is only shown when the song takes more than one page, and turning the footer off hides it too.