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Improvements to Export PDF

  • Cris in Miami
  • MFahmy

1) Please give us a third alternative to “small file size” and “best quality” when we export a series of frames as a PDF. The “small file size” has insufficient image quality for some of our uses and the “best quality” creates a PDF that is huge. It shouldn’t be too hard to offer an option in the middle, or allow users to specify the resolution of the resulting PDF.

 

2) When a series of frames is exported, please have Miro force itself to fully load the images in each frame before producing the PDF. As it currently stands, we need to manually zoom in on each frame to fully load each image and then choose Save As. It seems like it should be simple to have Miro internally force image loading when frames are going to be exported.

 

The way I use Miro is to set up a board for the Concept Design phase of one of our projects. Multiple team members sketch, add images, create tables, etc - all on this single board, which tends to sprawl over time. This is how our concepts evolve. In the past when we periodically had to present our progress to a client, we would put together a powerpoint or use InDesign to create a PDF. It was time consuming to export images from whatever program we were using to brainstorm. What we like about Miro is the ability to take a messy two-dimensional board and create a ‘pathway’ through it that looks orderly and logical, simply by creating a series of frames that focus on certain areas of the board. We export those frames as a single PDF and it condenses our two-dimensional thought process into a linear stream for sharing, much like creating a powerpoint would do. The nice thing about Miro is we don’t have to open another platform and create this serial path; we simply create a series of frames to guide clients through our existing messy two-dimensional whiteboard.

 

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The relationship between font and page sizes to the Miro board is very mysterious - if you start with a letter size frame in landscape orientation, it will produce a PDF that’s 8.76” x 5.67” no matter what scale the frame is. As a result, the font sizes of Miro have no real relationship to a physical inch or millimetre.


  • New Here
  • 1 reply
  • February 6, 2023

The export dimensions of PDFs is very confusing. I’m using Miro to organize my portfolio into frames that I export into a deck. But it seems like each time I export update frames, they come out in different dimensions than the previous version. Sometimes smaller, sometimes larger. This prevents me from simply replacing the relevant PDF pages in the existing deck, and forces me to recreate the entire deck even if I’m only updating one page, so that the continuous-scroll PDF will remain the same width.


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https://community.miro.com/ideas/crisp-pdf-export-9018
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  • Beginner
  • 7 replies
  • June 26, 2023

Also having pdf export issues. I make an 8x10.png, import it, and it looks correct, but when I export the pdf it is closer to 12x14 or something similar.


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