Used the export facility so I could have my created character sheets available to a large school D&D group printed out.
Export worked fine, and I subsequently filled in the gaps in the 'Features & Traits' section and saved PDF. This info appears on screen but on printing out that box is blank. Frustrating as am likely going to have to manually input said characters into a form fillable sheet from scratch now. As busy school librarian, had hoped this particular aspect of DnDBeyond would save valuable time.
Further to this issue, at my place of work I was using Adobe Acrobat reader. At home, I tried a print of the exported PDF which was opened in 'Reader' (on Win10 laptop) and the missing information printed out. Will check out availability of Reader at work, as I need to be able to print stuff out for my large school D&D group.
Further to this issue, at my place of work I was using Adobe Acrobat reader. At home, I tried a print of the exported PDF which was opened in 'Reader' (on Win10 laptop) and the missing information printed out. Will check out availability of Reader at work, as I need to be able to print stuff out for my large school D&D group.
Now wondering if it is an Adobe Acrobat problem?
Yes - this looks like an Adobe Acrobat problem - neither version worked as text was missing.
Problem now appears solved by opening the PDF in Google Chrome.
Further to this issue, at my place of work I was using Adobe Acrobat reader. At home, I tried a print of the exported PDF which was opened in 'Reader' (on Win10 laptop) and the missing information printed out. Will check out availability of Reader at work, as I need to be able to print stuff out for my large school D&D group.
Now wondering if it is an Adobe Acrobat problem?
Yes - this looks like an Adobe Acrobat problem - neither version worked as text was missing.
Problem now appears solved by opening the PDF in Google Chrome.
On closer inspection of the printout - now missing other fields - this time it hasn't printed the Class/lvl; background; Race, etc. Personality trait also only printed in part - ie. last line, bottom half of text! :-(
I think you guys really need to have QA test exported PDFs on several mainstream PDF readers. A form-fillable PDF is a nightmare across platforms, so if you insist on using this technology, then you really have to test on major PDF readers that people use.
As of today, I can't even display a simple exported sheet in the most official of all PDF readers (Adobe Acrobat Reader DC on Mac OS) without getting a bunch of layout problems. There are font sizes either set wrong or unset, some fields seem to auto compress content to fit available space but others don't, etc. If you put a good number of custom Ideals, Bonds, Flaws, and Backstory to fill the boxes, you will see how it all goes to hell. From a user perspective, if you can't support Adobe, the iOS built-in PDF viewer, Preview (MacOS), and the more popular non-Adobe PC PDF viewers, your export function is really pretty useless.
In my opinion, you should abandon form-fillable PDFs, because these can't work across all those platforms unless you do a crazy amount of testing and tweaking. Just export to a static PDF that is NOT based on forms, so it can be printed correctly and used in paper form. You already have "fillable forms" by being a web site :)
My biggest issue right now is with those that have to prepare spells. If I export this character to PDF the only spells listed are those that I've set as prepared. This doesn't make any sense since in the PDF you can click the dots next to spells to mark them as prepared, yet they aren't marked for those spells, and it doesn't then share the unprepared spells. The checkmarks I get, it lets players check and uncheck them with a pencil, but not showing all the spells makes no sense.
If only we had any idea when that was...I'm teaching new players how to use this interface when it'll be gone anytime between today and a month from now probably.
I also amend my character sheet and was having problems with the edited fields turning blank if I tried to print it. I looked at it in Adobe Acrobat and the edited fields were still there but didn't show up, so I changed the font colour to black (even though it looked like they were already set to black). When I did this, the fields appeared and would print.
There were also quite a few errors on the sheet which I went through and fixed.
If you'd like a copy of my blank stat sheet that will edit and print, you're welcome to download it here: (removed)
Billie
PS- There's no spell sheet on this one as my character doesn't have spells!
Used the export facility so I could have my created character sheets available to a large school D&D group printed out.
Export worked fine, and I subsequently filled in the gaps in the 'Features & Traits' section and saved PDF. This info appears on screen but on printing out that box is blank. Frustrating as am likely going to have to manually input said characters into a form fillable sheet from scratch now. As busy school librarian, had hoped this particular aspect of DnDBeyond would save valuable time.
Thank you.
Same type of issue for class / race abilities -I want full description on printed character sheet not just name of ability.
Further to this issue, at my place of work I was using Adobe Acrobat reader. At home, I tried a print of the exported PDF which was opened in 'Reader' (on Win10 laptop) and the missing information printed out. Will check out availability of Reader at work, as I need to be able to print stuff out for my large school D&D group.
Now wondering if it is an Adobe Acrobat problem?
HighlandL4ss,
Can you PM me the URL for some of the characters you're having an issue with. Thanks!
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I think you guys really need to have QA test exported PDFs on several mainstream PDF readers. A form-fillable PDF is a nightmare across platforms, so if you insist on using this technology, then you really have to test on major PDF readers that people use.
As of today, I can't even display a simple exported sheet in the most official of all PDF readers (Adobe Acrobat Reader DC on Mac OS) without getting a bunch of layout problems. There are font sizes either set wrong or unset, some fields seem to auto compress content to fit available space but others don't, etc. If you put a good number of custom Ideals, Bonds, Flaws, and Backstory to fill the boxes, you will see how it all goes to hell. From a user perspective, if you can't support Adobe, the iOS built-in PDF viewer, Preview (MacOS), and the more popular non-Adobe PC PDF viewers, your export function is really pretty useless.
In my opinion, you should abandon form-fillable PDFs, because these can't work across all those platforms unless you do a crazy amount of testing and tweaking. Just export to a static PDF that is NOT based on forms, so it can be printed correctly and used in paper form. You already have "fillable forms" by being a web site :)
Well then how do I export into a non-fillable form so I can print more than fist the first page stats and skills???
My biggest issue right now is with those that have to prepare spells. If I export this character to PDF the only spells listed are those that I've set as prepared. This doesn't make any sense since in the PDF you can click the dots next to spells to mark them as prepared, yet they aren't marked for those spells, and it doesn't then share the unprepared spells. The checkmarks I get, it lets players check and uncheck them with a pencil, but not showing all the spells makes no sense.
Wait for the revamp of the character sheets. Will probably fix alot.
I'm not stupid. I'm just unlucky when I'm thinking.
If only we had any idea when that was...I'm teaching new players how to use this interface when it'll be gone anytime between today and a month from now probably.
They said Q1 so it should't be long
I'm not stupid. I'm just unlucky when I'm thinking.
Hi all,
I also amend my character sheet and was having problems with the edited fields turning blank if I tried to print it. I looked at it in Adobe Acrobat and the edited fields were still there but didn't show up, so I changed the font colour to black (even though it looked like they were already set to black). When I did this, the fields appeared and would print.
There were also quite a few errors on the sheet which I went through and fixed.
If you'd like a copy of my blank stat sheet that will edit and print, you're welcome to download it here: (removed)
Billie
PS- There's no spell sheet on this one as my character doesn't have spells!
If nobody needs this, I'll take the link off! :)