Introduction
Templates are used to export your pencil file to a single HTML page, png files, doc, odt of pdf documents.
Step by step
1. open the pencil file you want to export
2. select Document > Export document ...
3. select the output format
4. select pages that you want to export (all / all except backgrounds / only selected pages)
5. finally, select the template you want to use from the drop-down list (you will retrieve your imported template in this list)and the destination folder
6. click on "Finish" button et voila !
I can generate HTMl files OK using the plugins, but no other doc types are working currently.
I am currently unable to export to anything other then PNG using V1.3
Same for me, unable to export via the default pdf template. (1.3)
What is a template? How do I get a template and use them? where can I find documentation on this? I need to be able to export the multiple page into a single PDF document.
Thanks.
You could download the templates from the Downloads page. http://pencil.evolus.vn/en-US/Downloads/Templates.aspx I can generate HTML files, but cannot generate PDF or other doc type files (with v1.2).
Hi, of course we can download templates, but when I add a new template in the "export template management" form, nothing happens. I click on "Install New Template...", choose any of the templates donwloaded on pencil.evolus.vn, click on "Open"... and nothing.
I only can export to PNG, nothing more. No PDF, no HTML.
Erratum : I manage to install templates on the plug-in version (v1.3.2 on FF9.01), but not on the stand-alone one (v1.3.2).
Furthermore I do not manage to export to PDF, Pencil says "no template has been installed for exporting to text documents", though I installed Simple Text Export Template (DefaultODTTemplate.zip), like the first comments.
I eventually managed to export vector data out from pencil to pdf with following steps:
I can confirm that galki...'s method to export to PDF works for me too! Thank you!
Can't download templates from http://pencil.evolus.vn/en-US/Downloads/Templates.aspx.
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I was able to generate a PDF on a Mac using standalone v 1.3.4 by using 'send to printer' and then using the Mac's native print dialog to "Save as PDF".
I tried the svg -> firefox method but it has all 3 of my pages on one truncated page...
anyone know how to prevent truncation? my document page width was 900px
I also cannot use the native "Export document to pdf" function. A few lines and shapes show up, but thats about it. I was able to print to a 3rd party PDF printer (Bullzip) on Windows 7 and all of the vector objects came in fine, however, none of the Native UI Widgets show up. I ended up having to export to PNG and manually build the PDF, which works fine... but obviously it doesn't scale well as I'm just embedding images in a PDF. This needs to be fixed! Exporting a document to PDF is the #1 method of sharing wireframes with clients!
Hello,
I manually changed the width and height attributes in the <svg> tag of the exported svg and managed to avoid the truncation. Then using galki...'s method I managed to get a PDF file that can be opened in Inkscape.
Note that it might be that you have to export to SVG one page at a time in Pencil. I haven't tested exporting multiple pages yet.
Cheers!
Can we somehow export the wireframes as we can in inkscape or gimp using guillotine?