Improve PDF exporting
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Quince Cat
The process to export articles into a PDF is unreasonably obtuse, and is severely lacking in the features necessary to produce a professional looking document of a web-based document. Currently if you wanted to create a singular PDF of several Articles, you would have to first publish the articles, and I cannot find reason why that should be necessary. Additionally, the template UX/UI for exporting PDFs is missing a lot of the configuration options I would expect to see. Much of the formatting such as font type is not configurable when trying to export published articles and fonts used on articles are not maintained in the export. However, when exporting a singular article from the Preview page, font and style choices are maintained in this export process. It would improve the exporting process a great deal if PDFs could be generated using multiple unpublished articles, and they kept their fonts and style formatting in the export.
Additionally, trying to create a decent looking PDF from web-base documents is quite difficult. The articles being created with HTML which does not-nor does it need to-account for text and images fitting properly on a standard size paper. This means there really should be an easier way to preview what an article would look like on standard document sized pages. Users should not have to create a preview page to generate an export just to to determine if images are of an appropriate size or if there are any awkward cutoffs of text. Each adjustment means creating another export to confirm the layout is fixed, and more time spent finding workarounds for lacking features
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Kavya
Hi Quince Cat,
hank you for sharing this detailed feedback.
To better understand the requirement, could you please clarify a few points?
Is the primary requirement to export multiple unpublished articles into a single PDF, or are there other publishing workflow challenges you'd like to address as well?
Which PDF configuration options are most important for your use case (e.g., fonts, margins, page size, spacing, headers/footers, image scaling, page breaks)?
Are you looking for a WYSIWYG PDF preview that reflects the final PDF layout before exporting, allowing you to adjust content without generating multiple exports?
Should the exported PDF preserve the same fonts and styling used in the Preview experience for both single and multiple article exports?
Could you share a few examples of the formatting issues you commonly encounter, such as image cutoffs, page breaks, or font inconsistencies?
This will help us better understand the end-to-end PDF authoring workflow and evaluate the most appropriate improvements.