That One PDF Thing from Adobe

Adobe PDF files are basically what happens when someone decided paper needed to go digital & still look exactly the same. (Groundbreaking, we know.) OnSong can totally view PDFs, scrollin' through page after page like you're readin' a bleepin' book. Fair warnin' tho: OnSong expects each song to live in its own PDF file — no mash-ups, no "greatest hits" PDFs. One song, one file. Done.

Here's the thing about PDFs tho — they're real good at lookin' pretty, but sometimes they're secretly just a bunch of shapes & pictures pretendin' to be text. Sounds legit to the human eyeball, right? Wrong. Computer eyeballs? NOPE. OnSong tries its best to squeeze the actual words out of those sneaky files. But if it's like, basically impossible, OnSong's gonna phone a friend — a fancy OCR service (that's Optical Character Recognition, y'all — aka robot eyes squintin' at your document). Results may vary dependin' on how jacked up the original file is. No promises.

Oh, & if your PDFs are all "you shall not pass" with passwords? OnSong's got you. It'll ask for the password when you open it. Type it in once & boom — OnSong remembers it for the whole gig. No more typin' passwords like you're defusin' a bomb every 30 seconds. You're welcome.

Here's the part where we blame Apple: PDFs get shown using whatever PDF viewer your iOS/iPadOS is feelin' that day. If your imported files look wonky, it's probably because of iOS/iPadOS versions & updates. We didn't break it, Apple did. (Probably.)

Wanna nerd out about PDFs for real? Hit up Adobe's website at http://www.adobe.com/pdf