Click Share, choose PDF Export, drag your pages into order and click Export PDF to hand the document over as a file anyone can print. Where: Publisher Studio › top bar › Share › PDF Export · Plan: Included in Pro
What it is
A graph is a network, and a document someone reads is a line. The PDF is where you choose that line: a book proposal chapter by chapter, a report for an editor, a handout or a revision pack. Each page of the document starts on a new sheet, with its title, its cover and everything on it, in your page style.
How to use it
- In the Publisher, click Share at the top right.
- Choose PDF Export. The window lists every page of the document.
- Drag a page by its handle to move it up or down, and untick a page to leave it out.
- Set the switches below the list, if you like.
- Click Export PDF. On Windows, choose where to save it, and Filamental writes the file. On macOS and Linux, the document opens in its own window with the print window over it: choose Save as PDF there.
The first time, Filamental suggests an order: the hub page first, then any chapters joined by a leads into connector, in the direction its arrows point, then the rest of the pages the hub leads to, in each page's footer order. Pages the hub doesn't reach go at the end, unticked. Reset order goes back to the suggestion.
The switches:
- B&W: off by default. Every colour turns to grey on white paper, pictures included, for a printer with black ink only. The page style's text colours stay dark enough to read.
- Paper: A4 or Letter.
Tips
- Filamental remembers the order, the ticks and the switches for each project, in the project folder, so the order travels with it. A page you add later joins the end of the list, ticked.
- A cover sits at the top of its page's first sheet, and never takes more than a fifth of it.
- A link to another page in the PDF turns to that page when you click it in a PDF reader. A link to a page you left out becomes plain words, and links to websites still open.
- A video can't play on paper. A video from a link prints as where to watch it, starting from its timestamp, and a video file as its name.
- The page footer and attached files stay in the app and in shared links, so the PDF holds just the pages.
- On the free plan the window says "PDF Export is part of Pro. Building and formatting stay free.", and Export PDF shows what Pro adds.
- While the project has a live shared link, choose PDF Export from the Link badge's menu.
How this helps you
Use it when the work has to leave as a document: a chapter outline for an agent, a thesis chapter for a supervisor, a client report that will be printed and annotated, or a revision pack for a class.
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