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Export the PDF

Print the stage sheet, or choose columns and a portrait or landscape layout, shape the layout yourself — or copy the set as text for the group chat.

Open SetlistForge

On this page
  1. Generate a PDF
  2. The stage sheet
  3. More layout options
  4. Copy as text
  5. Characters and limits

The setlist PDF is generated in the browser — nothing is uploaded. The logo from the show header and the show title, date and venue print at the top.

Generate a PDF

  1. On the Setlist tab, tap Export PDF. The button is grayed out while the setlist is empty.
  2. Under Layout, the Orientation starts on Stage sheet; switch to Portrait or Landscape for a table with columns. Pick the Page size and the Font size: Small, Normal or Large (9 / 11 / 13 pt for a table, 20 / 24 / 28 pt for the stage sheet). Set breaks prints them as a Gray bar, a Line only, starts a New page per set, or keeps them Hidden. Toggle Show header and Show total-runtime footer.
  3. Under Select columns, Number the songs switches the numbers on or off. For Portrait and Landscape, tick the columns you want. They are grouped into Song Info, Performance and Notes: Title (always on), Performing Artist, Composer, Lyricist, ISWC, BPM, Key + Camelot, Duration, Lighting Cue and Notes.
  4. Tap Generate PDF. The file downloads; a toast confirms it.

The stage sheet

Stage sheet is the default: the classic taped-to-the-floor setlist, huge type, one page per set, showing Title plus Key/BPM. Each set is headed SET 1, SET 2 and so on. Tick Duration, Lighting Cue or Notes and they print as a small gray line under each title; the other columns do not apply to it.

More layout options

Open More layout options at the bottom of the dialog to shape the PDF yourself:

  • Exact size — any size from 7 to 40 pt, with the − and + buttons or typed in. Picking a preset again replaces it.
  • Line height — Compact, Normal or Airy.
  • Margins — Narrow (8 mm), Normal (15 mm) or Wide (25 mm).
  • Number style — 1, 1. or 01, and Start again at 1 in each set.
  • Header — show title, date, venue, artist and logo, each on or off.
  • Fit to one page — shrinks the size and line height (down to 7 pt) until the set fits. If it still does not fit, a message says how many pages it needs. With New page per set, every set gets its own single page.
  • Remember for this setlist — this setlist keeps its own layout and prints the same on your other devices. Untick it and the setlist prints with this device's choices again.

Without it, your choices are saved on this device and apply to every setlist.

On the free plan, Number the songs, the size presets, the page size and showing or hiding set breaks are yours to choose. Your own columns, the logo and the options under More layout options are part of the full version.

Copy as text

Copy as text puts the whole setlist on the clipboard as plain lines, with the total at the end — ready for the band's group chat. It follows the numbering (on or off, 01 style, starting again in each set) and adds the lighting cue and notes when they are ticked for the PDF; the layout options do not apply to text. For a page the band can open on their phones, send the read-only set link instead (see Getting started).

Characters and limits

  • Fonts are embedded, so accented, Polish, Czech, Greek and Cyrillic text prints correctly — titles, notes and the show details alike.
  • Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters cannot be embedded yet. Add a Latin transcription to the song if it needs to be on paper.
  • A setlist over 500 entries must be split before export.
  • Set-break rows print with their label unless Set breaks is Hidden.

The PDF from this dialog is the stage document. The royalties report is a separate export on the Royalties tab with the society's own layout and wording.

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