Export to print-ready PDFs

[alexfjelldal]

Long story short: I would like Mechanic to export print-ready PDFs.

More specific:

• PDF must include crop marks
• There must be some way to tell the PPI of embedded images before export (PPI must be at least 300 for printing)

(⚠️Warning: I'm a designer teaching myself more about code, not a developer. The last months I have fiddled around with mechanic.design.)

The promise of turning rules into tools is just what I am looking for in several of my projects. But when you're implementing across digital and print media, you need the output inteded for print to be production-ready. I would really like to see mechanic.design solve that 😃

I looked into converting SVG and Canvas to PDF, but quickly gave up (not being a developer).

[fdoflorenzano]

Hey @alexfjelldal! Thanks for reaching out. This is very much on our radar, along with a more generalized way to specify export formats, so your idea very much aligns with that.

We've been focusing on other projects the last few months, so Mechanic development has been slow lately. Once we finish some already started loose ends, this will probably be worked on.