Ugly PDF | PDF Export Improvements
Simon MinHo Kim
One of the biggest reasons my using ClickUp is the overall aesthetics. But, when it comes to exporting Doc to PDF… ugh! If it just look the way it does inside ClickUp, that'd fine. But, the exported PDF is unsightly. Please beautify. Thank you.
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Pascal Vuylsteker
In addition to the look, some essential information is missing from the PDF export.
Anything from the Header is missing from the PDF export. It should be there : those information are extremly important in the export, especially in the context of information management : a document without meta data such as the last modification date, or the contributors are useless:
Cover image
Page title & Icon
Subtitle
Owner
Contributor
Date updated
Sticky table of contents
And the main Title should have nice proportion !
Jan Kleiss
How is this not implemented, yet? Shared links are not always an option, e.g., for audit-relevant documents. And having H1 etc. formatted as regular text is not something we could tolerate.
Ethan Whitted
100% agree with this. To give some more specifics to this general request, a minimum few things in particular I'd like to see are:
* Increased font size for headers (H1, H2, H3, etc.) in the PDF export. Currently they render as the same size as normal text.
* Full support for emojis in the PDF export. (PDFs support emojis, but during the conversion process, the ClickUp system will cause most of the emojis to become blank boxes instead.
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Miguel Stevens
This is still the only reason I can't switch my proposals to Clickup, I'm still relying on Notion for this, the PDF's have no styling at all. This doesn't seem like too big of a feature, but I feel like it's really important.
Amara Amzal
Miguel Stevens:If you're using a Mac, consider printing and saving as a PDF instead of using the PDF export feature. This method provides better rendering, closely resembling the edited document.
But this doesn't mean that developers shouldn't integrate the PDF export function so that it respects the original formatting as much as possible.
Matthew Pavkov
The PDF export is essentially unusable in its current state. I understand that it's difficult to get all the styling right, but not even the basic styling is there, and this includes the HTML export, too (which is pretty surprising). You lose the ability to understand and consume the document after exporting to PDF without at least basic styling / informational hierarchy.
You're better off copy/pasting the Doc contents into any number of other word document tools (Google Docs, Word, an email, etc.) and exporting to PDF from there.
Interestingly, when you go to print a Doc, basic formatting is there and it's good enough (some things break though, like tables). So, this is an option at least (print as PDF).
Haven't made a final decision, but I think this essentially eliminates ClickUp Docs as an option, unless other features were added (password protection, public link expiry at the Business plan level).
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Mike McCaman
Please do this... built a really nice looking project status update template for a client and the export to PDF just looks basic... nothing like the doc in ClickUp.
Would also be nice to be able to email a document as embedded html with the same formatting as in ClickUp.
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Miguel Stevens
This is the only reason why I still have to make documents and proposals in Notion, It would be great just to have a PDF look like the actual document we're making.
Christy Pessagno
I didn't realize this was such an issue until I spent a few hours on a document this morning and went to export it ahead of a meeting. Let's just say people in the meeting are either going to have to look at it through a shared link or view my screen grab of it because the PDF export is terrible. Bullets are on their own line separate from the text next to them, font sizes are all over the place, spacing is large and in charge. Would love to see this get fixed, though a bit concerned that this was brought up in Jan 21.
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Jake Tod
The file name should carry over capitalization of the doc title. I have a weekly set of notes I take in a Doc called Submittals Management (DD-MM-YYYY) and when I export to email to the contractor, I have to rename the file each time because it drops capitalization and garbles the date formatting.
Diego Sánchez Cavalieri
At the time of leading a call and taking notes, I use a table of tasks inside the doc to follow up on them. This table is not appearing when exporting to PDF; so I need to add a screenshot of them to get it right. Would be nice to get a the full list of tasks on the PDF exported file. Thanks.
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