Guys, it’s basic to offer a proper print/export function in any software or app since the invention of computers. This feature used to work perfectly in the early days of Coda, and for a platform designed to build apps and even deliver solutions to clients, it’s terrible to see that printing a table cuts off parts of it — and there’s absolutely nothing we can do about it.
Every single day when I try to generate reports or client proposals — in a module that Coda has otherwise enabled beautifully — the tables get cut, information goes missing, and the output is unusable. Every one of those days, I find myself opening another browser tab looking for an alternative app that can at least deliver the most basic thing: exporting or printing a decent PDF.
My app has become quite complex over the years, something I’ve built with great effort here. But now I’m rebuilding it on other platforms simply because Coda fails to deliver on such basic features. The delay in implementing something as simple as a comma for number formatting was the last straw. I’m still here holding on to some hope — but each passing day, I lose more motivation to build new modules or to think of Coda as a platform I’ll rely on in the future.
seen the many promises coda made earlier this year, I am confident they will eventually deliver on performance and on permissions, not sure about print.
Obviously this needs to be natively fixed. I have struggled with this ever since I started using Coda. There are some workarounds and they actually work good. You need to do some setup work, but if this is for repeat jobs (like a monthly report) I have found it to be worth the effort - I use it for reports, for plain database to pdf print, for rather complex prefilled forms, etc.
In order to accomplish that I use the CloudConvert pack from @Eric_Koleda . I have build a sort of template doc that should get you started. If you are interested, you can find my post here: Create PDF with a button
This is something that bothers me too: Coda seems to have no interest in fixing the basic document editing features. There’s still no search/replace functionality either, for example.
When I raise this issue, the response seems to be, “Well, Coda isn’t really about editing documents. It’s about software functionality. Look at this cool new API endpoint!”
OK, but I find that a bit frustrating when I’m trying to get things done.
I wholeheartedly agree. My team encounters this difficulty – unreliable generation of pdf’s – on a daily basis. We resort to screenshots, and it’s a disappointing experience. Like, my data is laid out in my doc, I can see it, it’s right there on the page in my browser. I should be able to get a faithful pdf without resorting to command-shift-4 or a pack.
So much talk of AI features and “productivity” and yet no fix for this incredibly basic function that ends up taking endless time via trial and error. Unbelievable….
Coda: “But don’t you want all the shared intelligence of your Coda brain with you anywhere you go online, like the Clippy of 2025? Think of all the tables it could reference!”
Me: “Uh, ok. But can you also make this thing print properly?”