Editing PDF sheet music ideas wanted

[Oldden]

I've got lots and lots of music in pdf form, both single sheets and books. What I would like to do is to remove all the bits that these days I do not need. Things such as bass clef, extra verses and so on. Tried a couple of pdf editing programs, some try to read everything and convert it to txt, which is a disaster, others are just to complicated at my age. Tried convert things to jpg first and it's a very long job, at least with me. Just looking for a simple way to do it if there is one.

[Divemaster]

Mobile Sheets by Zubersoft is the answer to your prayers!
You can download All your Pdf music to this app, and then edit away to your hearts content.
The full version is Well worth buying,
I use it on a Lenovo 10" tablet which displays the music very clearly. You can adjust the background colour to whatever suits your eyesight.
Editing is about as simple as it gets, you can add, remove, alter and do pretty well anything you want with it.
It's a super, super program. I use mine on my lap when I'm editing or composing, and then just pop the tablet on the music rest of my SX700 or my Korg to play the music
I use mine with a LEKATO page turner... So when you hit the end of a page, one prod on the pedal and you're onto the next page.
I'm 77 and I have found Mobile Sheets just so intuitive to use. I wouldn't be without it now.

Gets 110% from me

Keith

[johan]

A simple solution that I sometimes use is to make screenshots of the parts that I want to keep (I use the Windows standard snipping tool for this) and then paste these in a Word file. This also makes it easy to add additional text such as keyboard settings. But I also like the suggestion above to use mobile sheets.

[davidg]

The various solutions available are of course dependent upon the extent of editing you want to do.  I occasionally want to cut out or add parts of a pdf song and one of the easiest ways to do this is:

  -  open the pdf you want to edit
  -  at the same time open a word processing document like Microsoft Words (or similar freeware such as Libre Office)
  -  with a snipping tool outline and copy the parts of the pdf you want to use
  -  paste them into the word processing document
  -  print the word processed document as a pdf

If you are simply cutting out the bass clef, the advantage here is that the snipped (or copied) treble clef parts are automatically an A4 page width.
Hope this is of some help.

Kind regards,
David

[Rick D.]

Olden,

I use Real PDF Editor Plus, it will do everything you want.

Rick D.