Export as a document
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
hi Parker Jones, thanks for the suggestoin.
This is probably doable-ish, but I think the challenge will be that a lot of our fancier layouts wouldn't be possible to replicate in docs.
What would you expect to happen with those layouts when exporting to docs?
Parker Jones
Nik Payne (Gamma design) Firstly, thank you for such a quick reply. Hmm that is a good question. Could you give me an example or two of which layouts could be at issue?
For instance, it seems pretty good at handling tables and figures which are probably the extent of my complexity. My use case it primarily taking already written professional documents, in this case an RFP, and using Gamma to bring the design to a more "modern standard." In this workflow I want to keep the material mostly unmodified and have Gamma adjust styling to make the document a bit more visually appealing.
Another tangentially related feature is being able to take an uploaded document and toggle which pages/sheets should be "AI updated". For instance there are times when RFPs have very specific cover letter requirements and should be left "as is."
Please let me know if you have any other thoughts and questions. I am also a full stack developer so I hope this will assist me in providing a more in-depth perspective!
Parker Jones
Nik Payne (Gamma design) Best case scenario is Gamma can export 100% of content to .docx. However, if certain UI edge cases prevent this, even a solution which is able to export some of the document to .docx and the more complex layouts are either omitted or converted to a photo and embedded within the document seems like a decent start to a solution. Happy to hear your thoughts on this.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Parker Jones Thanks Parker Jones this is helpful. Yeah I imagine a quick and dirty version of this is fairly straightforward, and a good version involves chasing down the long tail of specific cases.
I can pitch this to our head of product and see if we could explore it
Parker Jones
Nik Payne (Gamma design) Nik, Thank you and I appreciate you taking the time to reply today with such quickness. Please let me know if there's any more specific information I could provide to you all that may prove helpful!
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
What file format do people expect when we say document? We do have PDF right now, and we have A4/Letter sizes in page setup
David Vanderpool
Nik Payne (Gamma design) I am imagining a Word or Google Doc That will keep the formatting of the cards while allowing me to make a printable book out of it.
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Fredy Banyuke
I want this hotabh design to go straight to PDF and PPTX
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Hao Zhao
Currently what I do is command+a select all per page, paste contents to a new Obsidian note, rinse and repeat. It works fine but is some mind-clearing manual labour. Would be lovely to be able to output a strictly text-based MD file.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Hey David Vanderpool did you try the A4 or US letter sizes in page setup?
David Vanderpool
Nik Payne (Gamma design)Yes I have and they are very helpful. I was thinking of a direct print service akin to Canva so that I can generate reports for my clients and mail them a physical copy within Gamma.