Allow exporting to more formats (specifically PDF, and a higher quality JPEG).
The file sizes of the images and PDFs can be disregarded, in my opinion, since we would really like to see our maps on our Android phones and iphones as images exported from MindMup, and currently, the quality of the JPEGs are quite unreadable for large mindmaps, defeating the purpose of making the mindmap..
Probably the Devs can take a look at this feature?
We added security and privacy, so this is now ready for general use. PDF Files are stored on our servers for up to 24 hours – here is a bit more info on the security etc: http://blog.mindmup.com/p/pdf-export.html
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Iani Ionidis commented
I agree that PNG is better than JPEG so no issues there. But a PDF export is ideal, especially as it will let people copy text from it if necessary. Also it will scale much better when imported into presentations.
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Ayori commented
Fantastic, thank you, I'll use this a lot more with this feature!
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Anonymous commented
For distribution, mark-ups, search within map, the PDF is a preferable solution atleast for me.
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Siegfried Kiermayer commented
@MindMup you could make an 'higher quality JPEG' with using an higher dpi. Instead of exporting it as 1:1 jpeg (or png) you could export it as 10:1.
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@Farrel
what's missing from the HTML output we have to give you what you need from bullets?
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Farrel Buchinsky commented
Yes. PDF is useful because one can print it or share it in high resolution. I, for one, do not care for jpeg output. I would love a bullet point text output (you have something such as that in htlml)
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@Kshitij Bansal
1) Can you send the PNG you have a problem with zooming to contact@mindmup.com. PNG should be lossless, and if it's not we have a bug.
2) if you're talking about zooming above it's original size, you will get pixelation and this is independent of whether it is PNG or JPEG - it's a problem with the bitmap format. JPEG has loss compression so it will actually be worse. For that, only a vector output will actually work. we can play with PDF for vector outputs if this is what it's really about, and not waste time on building another image output
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Anonymous commented
I agree that the png is sufficient for printing out the map. I find it easy to scale to the appropriate size, with no loss of detail. I don't use my phone for maps, as mine are too large and detailed for the small screen to provide a useable picture. That said, I just opened the png of a map, and it looks great. I guess if there was an app, I would be able to open the map directly, rather than saving it to a png in my gdrive and then opening the png from the gdoc viewer. But, that's for another request... I think you could move on from this one.
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Kshitij Bansal commented
Errr... The PNG is not exactly lossless, IMHO,
It gets grainy and the text gets aliased if a bit of zoom is applied on it..
As for why different image outputs are necessary, a pdf seems to be the industry standard for exporting stuff... Like, if I wanna compile many mindmaps into one pdf, and send it over to somebody, its easier to do if it was exported as one pdf in the first place.. Rather than building a pdf on my own from the images.
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Seshagiri Rao Pothapragada commented
As suggested by Daniel Melo - A tree visualization of the notes. Main Node - Title, Branch Node - Bullet 1, child branch - bullet 1.1 and so on.
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Daniel Melo commented
THe PDF print could have an option to show the notes on the nodes.. a tree visalization would make it organized.
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Iani Ionidis commented
With regards to more exporting format, this will only be useful if you can actually export the PDF as vector graphics with selectable text. Otherwise, another bitmap format will add no value at all.
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Kshitij Bansal commented
The other formats of export, (HTML, Mindmup, FreeMind, Text) all cannot be viewed as the same thing on Androids and iPhones, since no good application exists to view them.. a better quality JPEG, with priority on quality should be nice :)