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Why: Effortlessly provide your members with beautifully formatted meal plans and recipes in PDF format, enhancing their experience and making it easy for them to follow your content offline.
Navigate: App Station > Settings > Content Settings > Templates > PDF
Quick Start
Go to the App Station and navigate to Settings.
Select Content Settings and then Templates.
Click on PDF to access the PDF generation settings.
Customize your PDF templates as needed.
Use the Download PDF option on meal plans to generate your PDF.
Plan Size Limits
It's important to be aware of the limits on meal plans to ensure smooth functionality:
Maximum Recipes: Meal plans are capped at 100 recipes total. This cap applies to everyone, including admins, and serves as a safety net to keep the editor and shopping list functioning properly.
PDF Export Limit: PDF export is only available for meal plans with 50 recipes or fewer. If a meal plan exceeds this limit, it remains fully editable but cannot be exported as a PDF.
Warning Banner: When a meal plan crosses the 50-recipe threshold, a persistent warning banner appears at the top of the meal plan tab, advising you to split the plan into smaller plans and link them using the Related Content property.
PDF Export Modal: If you or a member attempts to open the PDF export modal for a plan that cannot be exported (due to too many recipes, lack of permission, or reaching the daily export limit), the modal will display a neutral message: "This meal plan is not available for PDF export." It will not specify the reason, ensuring members do not learn about any recipe ceiling.
Customizing PDF Templates
You can customize how your meal plans and recipes are rendered in PDF format. Here are the key options available:
Density Preset
The Density preset controls the vertical spacing between blocks in your PDF. You can choose from the following options:
Tight: Fits more content on a page.
Compact: Slightly more breathing room.
Normal: Default spacing.
Comfortable: Easier to scan with nice whitespace.
Spacious: Maximum whitespace.
Page Break Behavior
Every recipe in the PDF attempts to render on a single page. However, if a recipe is too long, it may overflow.
Each major section of the meal plan starts on a new page. This includes the header and schedule grouped together, followed by prep-aheads, shopping list, and recipes.
There are no admin controls or per-block toggles for page breaks.
Shared Image Options
For both cover-image and header blocks (in recipes and meal plans), you can adjust the following settings for consistent image sizing:
Aspect Ratio: Choose from options like 1:1, 4:3, 16:9, etc.
Fit: Select either cover or contain.
Width Percentage: Set the width relative to its container.
Alignment: Choose left, center, or right.
Max Height: Define a maximum height for the image.
Border Radius: Control the rounding of corners.
Additionally, there is a standalone block called pdf-meal-plan-cover-image that mirrors the recipe cover-image block.
Editor Behavior
The editor opens to the Blocks tab by default.
The Show heading toggle is respected on ingredients, instructions, notes, and prep-aheads.
Recipe titles in the meal plan schedule will wrap instead of truncating.
Nutrition Display
PDFs accurately display yield-based recipes, showing the yield amount and unit (e.g., "Makes 500 g") instead of servings. Nutrition information is displayed per unit of yield.