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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Jarod Ivey
Yes, need better printing! Currently, Dashboard with an Everything embed looks great on screen but will not print or save as PDF.
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James Mallorie
Yes please!
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Cado De Clercq
Couldn't agree more! The current export is nothing more than a screenshot. If you have info in the cards that's not showing (because you need to scroll in the card) is doesn't even export. To us it's useless this way.
Michael
Simon MinHo Kim - how do you feel about your request getting merged into
There are a number of similar requests. Merging them would get the number of votes up which helps the ClickUp developers decide what to prioritize.
https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/richer-formatting-and-layout-design-for-docs-and-related
We could get these all into one thread that would be close to 250 votes.
Mel H
Michael: Hey Michael!
Mel from ClickUp's Senior Technical Support team here.
I think merging all of these posts is an incredible idea! 💡
I've reached out to our Product team internally to ask to have these posts merged. Thank you so much for sharing your input and for helping to make us better!
Michael
Mel H 👍🏼😎👍🏼
Yohan-Kévin COMPANY
I tried to export to PDF a document I carefully crafted in Clickup, to share a nice printed version with people, and I was amazed that NOTHING is preserved except the raw text. Please do something so it looks like the document (at least a little bit ?), it would be so much better !
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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