Improve documents and ebooks features (fill space, automatically split to better fit on fixed sizes like letter, A4, epub)
Dan Verton
U.S. letter dimensions for exporting documents in pdf do not export in 8.5" x 11" - they are 12.1 x 16" - Can you fix the export function so that it exports the document in the correct dimension?
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Merged in a post:
문서 파트만 빈여백이 너무 많습니다.
k
karin an
여러번 시도했지만 프리젠테이션이나 소셜의 기능에는 만족합니다. 다만 문서로 만들때마다 하단부에 공백을 계속 만들어 냅니다. 이미구성도 안되고 문서 형식 틀도 조정이 안되서 매우 불편합니다.
아래 공백을 없에 달라는 프롬프터도 넣어봤지만 잘 되지 않았습니다. 기본서식에 이부분이 체크 안되는 것 같습니다.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
karin an thanks for the detailed writeup (and the screenshot). Totally get how annoying that is if you’re trying to use Gamma in a doc-style workflow and it keeps forcing a big blank area at the bottom.
A couple quick questions so we can pass something actionable to the team:
1) Does the extra whitespace show up only in “Document” output, or also when you export/print (PDF) too?
2) Is it happening on every doc you create, or only with certain blocks (like the Memo card / multi-column section) or certain themes?
If you can share what device + browser you’re on (ex: Chrome on Windows, Safari on iPad), that’d help us narrow it down fast.
k
karin an
Nik Payne (Gamma design) I'm using a Gamma-only app on my Windows computer. I've worked with letters and pdf files several times, but I think this error occurs every time I document it. I'm not sure if it's posted like that in the context of paragraphs. I tried to divide it by card before Ai work started, but it didn't work as a setting itself. Once I document it, all pages are processed like that, so I can work again. It's so perfect when I make social media or other media, but only documents keep on making it, so I suggested it.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
karin an: Thank you!
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Merged in a post:
View two pages of eight of a document at once and be able to edit it like book style.
Cristian Popa
You can only edit one page at a time, but it'd be nice if you had two pages side by side, like how it was in Adobe InDesign, and you can format it like a book where the two pages are combined.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Merged in a post:
Export to DOCX and EBUP formats
Rafael Pecin
I'm using Gamma to write and format my ebook, however I can't export it to a market standar ebub format. PDF is not a good option and it cant be converted to DOCX of EPUB withotu loosing the formatting.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Merged in a post:
Document pain points
Grant Lee
Caught up with a founder that loves our product and is trying to use it for all of his sales and marketing collateral. His biggest pain point is that our export is not WYSIWYG. Example: <https://gamma.app/docs/AI-Powered-Healthcare-Solutons-lv788wpf0m92e9b|here is a gamma> that he set to Letter that looks weird in our editor, but exports more closely to what he wants through a lot of trial and error (see pdf attached). Is this one we're actively working on?
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Merged in a post:
Template Document
Thomas CHARLES
Créer des template plus "graphique" pour les Documents un peu format newsletter avec texte sur 2 colonnes etc.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Merged in a post:
Ein Schularbeiten A4-PDF-Export besser als nur Präsentationen
Mailbecken Mailbecken
Ich habe ein 30-seitiges PDF erstellt. Die manuelle Gestaltung von Layout und Formatierung ist dabei sehr zeitaufwendig und mühsam. Aus diesem Grund habe ich ausprobiert, das Dokument mit Gamma aufzubereiten – was hervorragend funktioniert hat.
Umso bedauerlicher ist es, dass aktuell kein Export als A4-PDF-Dokument möglich ist. Gerade für umfangreichere Arbeiten wäre diese Funktion extrem wertvoll. Der Bedarf, längere Inhalte professionell zu formatieren und als druckfähiges Dokument zu exportieren, ist meiner Meinung nach deutlich grösser als der Fokus auf Präsentationen.
Alle diese Schularbeiten, bei Beruf, Lead Magnet, E-Book, Kindle Publishing, etc..
Ein A4-PDF-Export würde Gamma für einen noch grösseren Anwendungsbereich und Markt öffnen. Es wäre schade, dieses Potenzial ungenutzt zu lassen.
Vielen Dank für das grossartige Tool und die bisher sehr gute Nutzererfahrung.
Freundliche Grüsse
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Merged in a post:
Handle 1:1 50 Page Document polishing more reliably with preservation of text
F
Fernand Schroell
I tried using Gamma to convert a 50-page document into a usable, proper format with images and well-structured pages, with 1-to-1 text transfer. So no summary, no extract—the text should ideally be taken over exactly as it exists.
I started several attempts using Create New with AI, selected the document, chose A4 as the format. Sometimes I tried letting it generate page breaks automatically, sometimes I even generated them manually, and sometimes I just chose a specific number of cards. But nothing resulted in the document being cleanly generated 1-to-1.
Gamma's biggest problems are filling pages completely and accounting for images in certain places. Either the pages are half empty or it can't manage to fit the content onto the specified number of cards. It's unable to adjust the document's font size, structure, and number of images so that it fits the given number of cards—even when you specify roughly as many cards or even more than the document has A4 pages. It always runs out of cards and cuts parts at the end no matter how geenrous I was with number of cards.
This is really unfortunate because that would be a very useful feature: being able to generate a proper e-book from existing Markdown text with the necessary visuals and everything. And obviously I'm not interested in condensing it because I value every word in there since I wrote and formulated it myself.
So this 1-to-1 conversion is very difficult. I also tried it with manual Gamma and that's way too cumbersome. I produced different upload files types—PDF, Word, or whatever is allowed—to see if that makes a difference. Nope, as soon as you choose A4 and Preserve Text, Gamma goes haywire and nothing reasonable comes out.
I think I made three, four, or five attempts and nothing was even remotely usable. This is really still a major problem.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
hey Mailbecken Mailbecken is your gamma set to a4 in page setup? That can help, although it will cut off content if your cards are taller than the aspect ratio
Mailbecken Mailbecken
Nik Payne (Gamma design) Handle 1:1 50 Page Document polishing more reliably with preservation of text
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Merged in a post:
Working within page limitations
Jaymes Regualos | EISB
Having trouble with formatting. Most of my gamma are documents, a4 sized. I have continuous issues with gamma creating pages where information is cut off becauase it creates pages that go beyond a4 limitations. Without the ability to simply "push" data to the next page (or just automatically adding pages). What is the work around?
Load More
→