Issue creating a PDF with text drawings ...

themacboy · 03-17-2025 07:06 PM

good morning,

I just created a Google Docs template to generate my PDFs, which are basically a data table.

The table headers are text drawings, which I have rotated within the Google Docs document, unfortunately, this drawing disappears when the PDF is generated.

Is this an error or am I doing something wrong?

scott192

If they are Google Drawings then you should either SHARE the drawings as PUBLIC with the link (might work) or better still, screenshot the drawings and insert the screenshots of the text into the tables instead.

I am guessing that the access rights on the drawings are stopping the html engine (templates are converted to html before being turned into pdfs) from reading them and rendering the images...maybe the engine can't even deal with drawings?

themacboy

Thanks for the answer.

Unfortunately, the drawings are generated within the same Google Docs document, then I don't understand, or I don't know how to tell it that it is public lol I should assume that since it is within the same template I should already be able to access it.

After a month learning AppSheet I am very unmotivated by the way it converts a Doc to Pdf, it's crazy that they first transform it into HTML. It could simply be done directly, and without lossy transformations, from the same platform, using for example App Script.

It is very discouraging. If I don't end up leaving this software, I could make my own App Script to create the Pdf documents, but it is too ambitious an idea, considering that AppSheet is paid for by my company, I think this problem should already have a solution.