I would like to be able to generate a single, very long (~40 pages) document from a bunch of rich text sources that can be printed out. When I do this, I run into 2 issues. First, the Glide interface is shown on the top and left of the page, meaning it would be present on the document. Second, th…

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Is this one-time only or do you need it to be a function for people who use your app?

Ideally it would be something that generates on the fly and could be viewed in full in the browser before printing. If it’s generated beforehand, then I can easily do that myself outside of Glide and then make it available as a PDF.

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I’d like to come up with a solution within Glide that doesn’t require any external add-ons or services.

Then I would explore creating HTML from content you have, and then convert that HTML to PDF. Though I’m still not sure what layout you want, or just packing all your “rich text” together.

I was hoping that there was a solution where I could basically have a “print” button that would print all of the rich text without the header Glide and without having to turn it into a PDF first.

I’m not aware of something like that since you mention it should be previewable as well and opposed to external solutions.

The issue with an external solution is that I would need to ask every user (which would be hundreds of people) to install a specific extension onto a specific browser, which is a bit of a tall order. Generating a preview is easy since I basically have a Rich Text box that calls each of the things I…

This will very likely be the solution for me, but I am still on the free plan and can’t implement it yet. Thanks!

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ThinhDinh March 26, 2025, 1:34pm 10

If you’re still interested in exploring HTML to PDF, this might be possible for you.

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