Printing and export

Print / Save as PDF

Print / Save as PDF prints the seating plan on the stage, A4 landscape, filling the page. For a PDF, choose Save as PDF in the print dialogue.

A wide stage prints across as many pages as it takes for every name to be easy to read. Each page says which it is ("page 2 of 4"), and the chairs are the same size on every page, so you can lay them side by side. A large choir on a wide stage can take several pages; first name and initial (under Names below) needs narrower chairs, so it takes fewer.

Options, the right-hand part of the same button:

• Layout: the full stage, or a page per section.
• Names: full names, or first name and initial ("Ekaterina D."). Shorter names print larger, so the plan is easier to read at arm's length. Where two singers would come out the same, like Selma Rowntree and Selma Rose, both keep their full names.
• Include the neighbour check, on its own page.
• Include the walk-on order, on a portrait page.
• Every seating plan in this concert, when it has more than one.

A ! on the Options button means the names would still print small, and the options say what to change.

Export

Download spreadsheet saves a CSV file, which opens in Excel, for printing or emailing:

• Current plan: the seating plan on screen, laid out like the stage.
• All plans: every seating plan of the concert, one block each. Shown when the concert has more than one.
• Walk-on order: the current plan's walk-on order, one singer per line.

These files are for reading and printing; the app can't load them back in. To keep a copy of your plans or move them to another device, use a backup file, which restores everything.

Which way round

By default the plan is drawn as the audience sees it, with the audience at the bottom. In Settings you can draw it as the choir and conductor see it instead, with the audience at the top. You can also choose how chairs are labelled (like B-7): letters or numbers, and which corner is 1. Only the drawing turns; nobody moves. A printed plan shows the audience bar on the side the audience is, and a spreadsheet export names the viewpoint in its first line.