#169 update and MobileSheets

[Anonymous]

Good Morning,

I have been using OpenSong for about 3 years now. I have V1.7 at both my home and at church.

If I were to download the newer version V2.1.2:

1. would both the church (Mac) and my PC need to be updated?
2. would files automatically transfer, or without difficulty?

I just purchased MobilSheetsPro and hope to put music on a tablet. Is there an easy way to transfer the OpenSong song list to the MobileSheets? Apparently MobileSheets wants PDF files while OpenSong is HTML? (I am not a savvy computer person.)

Thank you, John Lethbridge

[Anonymous]

If you are using an Android tablet, you can use the free OpenSongApp (http://www.opensongapp.com) to use the same songs on both your tablet and PC/Mac.

[Ed Palmer]

John,

It would be best if you put the new version on both, but some users have reported issues with V2.1.2 on the Mac when the Mac is newer and has been installed with Sierra (the latest release) new and not upgraded from an earlier version of the operating system. If you upgrade and the Mac is new, put V2.1.2 on the Windows system and V2.2 beta 1 (found in the files area) on the Mac. File formats are the same.

If you choose to put V2.1.2 on the Windows system and leave the Mac at V1.7, the files should exchange, but some features in V2.1.2 will not be available to you in V1.7.

OpenSong uses an XML format internally. It can export to HTML. Two ways to get PDF to MobileSheets:

1. Use the "Print" feature of OpenSong and target a PDF output destination. Note that some users have reported large PDF files on multi-page songs when using this method.
2. Export from OpenSong to HTML, then open the HTML file in your web browser and print to PDF or save to PDF (if offered by your browser).

Good luck, and thanks for being an OpenSong user.