after exporting for pdf, it looks like some of the symbols i use reposition themselves, as well as change the copy to something it was previously

Correct positioning

after export

with sketch's prototype feature you can add navigation links
but the default PDF export doesn't seem to support these, even though PDF itself will, unless I'm missing something

(and it's odd because I'm sure i've used that feature with sketch once before)

I wonder if that's something you'd consider adding?
It would allow to make simple transportable demo mockups

although perhaps a bit dependent on the PDF viewer, eg I dont think the mac default preview supports the hotspots

Hello, it seems like the plugin isn't working with the new version of Sketch. Has anyone else experienced this?

It should not possible to export a page if their are no artboards. However, at the moment the plugin will export a blank PDF page. It should instead popup an alert, saying that Artboards must be present.

The description for the fourth feature i.e. Include 'Symbol Master' Artboards in README.md is incorrectly given as a subset of the description for the preceding feature.

Hi,

thanks for your plugin and your work. It's great that you can ignore some artboard with a prefix but in may case, my artboard has already a prefix to name my artboards by ascending...so here it is : 100_artboard1, 200_artboard2 etc. and if I add a prefix with "-" it will blow all my order... :(

I was thinking of : 100_artboard-noExport- for example.

Thanks!

I downloaded this plugin hoping it would have this functionality over and above the standard "export to PDF" - there doesn't seem to be a way to export the artboard names into a PDF and have them readable as the page names/bookmarks (rather than just 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc)

UI opens and interacts as usual, export prompt behaves correct, and does not actually export a file.

Does not throw errors at any point (from my testing)

Once you mark an artboard to not export, you'll never be able to export it again. If you use ~ or - and then you remove it. It won't export ever again. You need to create a new artboard and copy all you work over. Can you fix this?

Hi! I am having this issue when i export to pdf (with the option export as PNGs into PDF unchecked). The fonts in the PDF looks a little bolder than in the original artboard. I have tried with a lot of different fonts and the problem is the same.
Some examples:

Exporting to PDF an artboard containing a symbol which has a background does not include this symbol's background color, even if the option "Include in Export" is ticked in the native "Background Color" settings of the symbol's artboard.

Add an option to compress the PDF during the export.
Perhaps using Ghostscript.

When using the 'Export PNGs into PDF' option, shapes and placed PNGs export with a gray matte. This only happens when there is no background color behind the layers with transparency, so when designing on a "white" background. I have to go back and add a white shape to all of my artboards in order to mitigate this.

I'm wondering if you could make the default matte white instead? Thanks!

I updated within the last day or so and the plugin is no longer working for me. No file is exported. No error is shown

First of all, thank you for an awesome plugin! :)

However, i found a bug. When using Auto Layout to vertically center text in a symbol with text overrides, the PDF export ignores the vertical centering. You can see an example of this as well as the specific Auto Layout setting in question here:

Sketch version: 44.1

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a rectangle on an empty artboard
2. Place one line of text on top of the rectangle
3. Make the textfield and the rectangle into a symbol
4. Go into the symbol, click on the text layer and select "Pin to center vertically" in the Auto Layout pane.
5. Go back to the artboard and duplicate the symbol a couple of times and use text overrides to make one of the copied symbols text layer long enough to split into two lines of text
6. Do a PDF-export and you should end up with a PDF that ignores the vertical centering, rendering the symbol with two lines of text looking weird because the two lines start from the middle and down instead of being centered vertically

I have included the exported PDF and the Sketch file as well:
https://adobe.ly/2qAzlfu

As you can see in the screenshots, I can't get Paddy to behave the same on both of these symbols.

The only difference in these symbols that I can figure out is that one has the icon on the left, one has it on the right.

The symbol with the icon on the right is behaving as expected.

I can't get the symbol with the icon on the left to do the same thing.

The layers are exactly the same.

And there are no constraints set in the symbol elements.

Any suggestions?

Would it be possible to allow this plugin to export to JPG as well as PNG?

Hope add an option，artboard name add to pdf directory

Hey i was using the plugin fine, until a couple weeks ago, after the update from mac. I uninstalled the plugin and reintalled it. but still it is not working.

It makes a pdf allready, but it doesn't export the images correctly.
all icons or images with a fill over it will turn solid.
all background images with a overlay fill on it wil turn bright of the color that was used.
Seems like the plugin doesn't correspond with sketch? or it makes a pdf but on the same way as the sketch one dpes it.

Seems to be an issue with Sketch Elements displaying weird editing behavior after exporting a PDF file using this tool.

Sketch Version 43.2
Steps to reproduce

1. Install the plugin.
2. Choose an artboard in Sketch and export to PDF using the plugin.
3. After export return to the Sketch artboard and select a text element and hit return to edit the text.
4. Text element cannot be changed but shows new text on top of old text.
5. Quitting Sketch and opening the file again or drawing a new artboard then deleting it seems to resolve it.

Exporting artboards no longer generates a PDF file, no file is created.

Title says it all, pdf pages could be sequenced in the output by artboard prefix or suffix or order in layers list.

Cheers,
Dmitri

Hi there!

This is a quick note to remind you that Sketch 45 will include a plugin update system.

It would be awesome if you could add support to it (it's really easy!) before Sketch 45 comes out. Ideally, you should release an update for your plugin while we're still in Sketch 44, so your users will have a nice & easy experience when 45 is released.

For more details, please check http://sketchplugins.com/d/229-updating-plugins and http://developer.sketchapp.com/introduction/updating-plugins/

Thanks in advance!

Sketch version 50.2

After export pdf, some pages will have the black cover that didn't exist on the artboard.
Please refer to below:

It was working a couple of weeks ago but suddenly stopped.

I do not have the 'Export as PNG into PDF' selected which seems to have been the previous issue.

Any ideas?

Hi,
Thanks for your great job!

I've got a little trouble when rendering nested symbols
Here is the comparison

I'm on the new version of Sketch and have been having lots of trouble with this plugin. First it was deleting entire "symbol-master artboards" so I no longer export those. But now, it's converting all my symbols to layers after I export. I go a bit crazy with symbols since I have loads of state changes so this is a HUGE inconvenience.

I am using masked symbols in my buttons to allow the button colour to be controlled with overrides.

Is there a way I can get Paddy to work with this technique?

This is where I got stuck:

The latest update broke the ignore prefix for me. It was working in the previous version.