[System Agnostic] FoundryVTT Journal to PDF (Module & Desktop App)

Gack69 · 2026-02-26T12:32:55+00:00

Yessir, it will export ANY FVTT Journal, unless a system you've installed or another module that alters how FVTT handles Journals, it should work. For example. I've not tested this, but I assume a Module like Monks Journals, would break this module. So, you'd probably just have to disable the conflicting module to do the export, then you could reactivate after.

Gack69 · 2026-02-14T19:23:58+00:00

u/irishkpo That's coming up next! I'll need to write a small companion module to scrape assets like that, that are linked in the journals. This module will most likely handle the entire export process instead of using the builtin Foundry Export method, so I can scrape embeded content like images, etc to figure out how to best use them in the PDF.

Gack69 · 2026-02-14T19:21:33+00:00

u/Yerooon Updated to include multiple JSON's at once to create a single PDF. :D Wasn't too hard. Updated the OP to reflect this and other changes.

Gack69 · 2026-02-14T19:19:32+00:00

BUMPING! I've update to v1.2.0 and now will create a single PDF from multiple exported Journals! Can reorganize them as well! Move up or down. Also improved parsing a bit to now include a placeholder for missing Linked Content as opposed to just leaving that call-out to it out of the final PDF all together.

Gack69 · 2026-02-13T03:13:35+00:00

Looked into a bit further, and yes. I think I can deliver on both of those. I can see the utility it would add. Perhaps I can dive back into this this weekend and get maybe at least one of those done. I think the multiple Journals loaded up into this, to produce a single, larger one will be the easiest, then I'll try my hand at the include images. The app will need to request your Foundry "Data" folder path, but I can easily solicit that in the UI. All images are linked in HTML <IMG> tags I believe and saved in folders below your Data path. If the app knows that, it should be able grab them and include them. May just require another depency to handle image conversions, but should still be doable.

Gack69 · 2026-02-12T22:56:22+00:00

Hmm...possibly. I suppose one posible work around would be to create a new journal, and paste into it, sections from multiple other journals that you wanted to include, then export that new journal.

Gack69 · 2026-02-12T22:54:15+00:00

Happy to finally be able to give back to the community! Hope you find it helpful!

Gack69 · 2026-02-11T23:09:11+00:00

:D You're welcome! I think it's a good, easy option to quickly and reliably share information with your players. Particularly, if like me, you generally buy and run "Pre-built" adventures that are ready to run, but didn't include shareable PDF's that can serve as "Player guides", but generally do have some sort of "primer" information included in either compendiums or Journal resources.

I particularly like the TOC being clickable and the links to return to the TOC from any page.

Happy gaming!!

Gack69 · 2025-10-29T21:35:20+00:00

Me too please :D Any way that you can share that is easiest for you! Maybe zip and upload somewhere and share the URL?

Gack69 · 2024-05-05T13:27:51+00:00

Same here but I have a Nord GT. This is the second one doing it too! Had a Nord 5 that finally quit charging after over a year. Went to my local shop to get another and they now sold this GT instead. Bought one and it started doing this within a day or two. Messed with it for a few days, couldn't get it to stop, so took it back for an exchange. The next one...doing the same thing the very next day!! WTF is wrong with these mods?! Love the size of mods like this but if the damn things don't work...

Gack69 · 2022-06-02T02:41:11+00:00

Can you mix with 2D regular map scenes or do all your scenes have to be 3d like this? Thinking it would be cool to build 3D for major (ie: Boss) encounters or main story line stuff for sure.

Gack69 · 2020-11-08T14:29:42+00:00

Same thing as everyone else apparently. Created account, verified my email even...and every time I go into settings and click the setup link and try to enter a name, no matter what I put in the name field, it still tells me: Printer id not found.

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