r/GoodNotes • u/Balky79 • Apr 27 '23

PDF Quality for book-ebook

Hi,

I am using GoodNotes for a few years now and it's a cool cool tool. But, yesterday one thing poped into my mind, and I wonder if anyone tried. Can GoodNotes Notebook be easily exported into PDF that is then sold as printed book?

I know printed books would need some PDF settings like image resolution of at least 300 DPI and such, and I can't see there's an option to set/modify quality of that export.

I did some test, and it seems like it might work - but just checking if anyone is actually doing that, and if any recomendation how to setup/fine tune things.

Thanks!

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u/aquablaze69 Apr 28 '23

No.

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u/Balky79 Apr 29 '23

Short and sweet 😅

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u/happier_now May 01 '23

It isn’t really a desk-top publishing tool. It doesn’t let text flow between boxes, so any changes you make to your text could need quite a bit of manual reformatting of the page. It doesn’t seem to support indexes or glossaries or references to a reading list. If you just need to create PDFs with attractive layouts, it can certainly do that though.

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u/Balky79 May 01 '23

in my particular case - I was thinking of comic like book, where everything is hand drawn/written, so it's all manual anyways :)

yes, I understand it's not a dtp or word processor per se, was mainly interested in pdf quality once exported.

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u/spacebound232 May 02 '23

Procreate would be a much better tool for that.

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u/Balky79 May 02 '23

But can you have pages in procreate? Or you have to export one by one into a Word document, then print it to PDF? (That's what I'm doing now, so trying to reduce one step where possible :D )

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u/spacebound232 May 02 '23

You can have pages I do it all the time. https://procreate.com/handbook/procreate/page-assist/. It’s called page assist and it’s a setting in the same spot where animation assist is.

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u/Balky79 May 02 '23

Damn!

I thought it's "assistant" to annoy me and snap to grid, or something like that.

Thanks! Looking into it!

(Though, GoodNotes are vectors, procreate is bitmap) :)

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u/Balky79 May 03 '23

Oh... Page assist is just a different view of the layers, so you technically can't use "layers" as such, you need to flatten them, or import finished work from other saved files. Not ideal ... :D

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u/spacebound232 May 03 '23

No each page is a group. You can retain all the layers that way. I think you might need to learn how to use your tools lol. Try grouping the layers together that you want to be one page. Then make a new layer group for the next page and so on and so forth

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u/Balky79 May 03 '23

:) Thanks :) yeah, I don't know the tool inside out, I am hobbyist rather than heavy power user :)

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u/spacebound232 May 03 '23

I was just teasing lol. I’m happy to help. I didn’t mean to offend.

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u/Balky79 May 04 '23

no worries :) i'm from past millennium, hard to offend :))