A few suggestions, mostly printing
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:31 am
I have a few suggestions for possible updates in the future. More later, but I wanted to post these tonight (this morning?) before I turned in.
Printing suggestions:
1) Have the "save as default" option also save the coordinate sheet report style (half pages, quarter pages, etc). I always do quarters, seems like it always defaults to halves.
2) Have a "save as default" option for the print preview windows. I use crazy large monitors, and having them able to always start up at 150% would be fantastic. It would also be beneficial to have the sizes it saves as default to be different between coordinate sheets and the actual drill charts.
3) Have the "save as default" option save printing preferences in the shortcuts for the drill charts. Rarely do I ever want to print out my subsets, just one less click.
Glue tool suggestion:
1) Sometimes when I create a block, my groups are all crazy from how I got them there and built it. My next step is usually to go to the cut tool and reset it all and then redraw them relative to my new block. If you have a large band of 100 or 200+, this is really time consuming. I would propose some way to click and drag through the performers to glue and regroup them. I could click on the first person in the front row and drag my way all the way across.
Audio suggestion:
1) I realize I'm probably a broken record here, but I'm going to keep asking for some way to restore mp3 functionality to the program, even if it's a backdoor config file alteration or a "use at your own risk" check box or something like that. I'm also a composer and arranger; having to make multiple copies of the same file is not the end of the world, but I would rather not have to do it. Invariably I realize at the last second that I didn't make a new file and have to stop what I'm doing to go convert it in another program I would otherwise never use.
That being said, I still love the program. I resisted moving from the light board for years, but after the last 7 or so years, I don't think I could ever go back. Keep up the good work.
Printing suggestions:
1) Have the "save as default" option also save the coordinate sheet report style (half pages, quarter pages, etc). I always do quarters, seems like it always defaults to halves.
2) Have a "save as default" option for the print preview windows. I use crazy large monitors, and having them able to always start up at 150% would be fantastic. It would also be beneficial to have the sizes it saves as default to be different between coordinate sheets and the actual drill charts.
3) Have the "save as default" option save printing preferences in the shortcuts for the drill charts. Rarely do I ever want to print out my subsets, just one less click.
Glue tool suggestion:
1) Sometimes when I create a block, my groups are all crazy from how I got them there and built it. My next step is usually to go to the cut tool and reset it all and then redraw them relative to my new block. If you have a large band of 100 or 200+, this is really time consuming. I would propose some way to click and drag through the performers to glue and regroup them. I could click on the first person in the front row and drag my way all the way across.
Audio suggestion:
1) I realize I'm probably a broken record here, but I'm going to keep asking for some way to restore mp3 functionality to the program, even if it's a backdoor config file alteration or a "use at your own risk" check box or something like that. I'm also a composer and arranger; having to make multiple copies of the same file is not the end of the world, but I would rather not have to do it. Invariably I realize at the last second that I didn't make a new file and have to stop what I'm doing to go convert it in another program I would otherwise never use.
That being said, I still love the program. I resisted moving from the light board for years, but after the last 7 or so years, I don't think I could ever go back. Keep up the good work.