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Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by craze3 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @12:58PM (#20517155)
This is so badass! I love using pen & paper for mockups.

FYI, I just shared your project on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/printable-mockups

I think the design community there will find it really useful!

Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by tiborsaas on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @11:13AM (#20516046)
This is very well executed.

One suggestion: maybe add an empty block for a placeholder to make space for notes.

Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by eg312 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:56PM (#20517792)
Thanks! The Notes block is the next thing I’ll add to it
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by app4soft on Thursday July 25, 2019 @05:34AM (#20523932)
Is there such add-on for Inkscape?[0]

On GitHub found only few Inkscape add-ons for creating interactive mockups.[1,2,3]

[0] https://inkscape.org

[1] https://github.com/jonathanmann/inkscape_app_mockup

[2] https://github.com/garrett/magicmockup

[3] https://github.com/ajashton/Inkscape-Mockup-Toolkit

Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by kleer001 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @12:32PM (#20516863)
One of those simple yet brilliant things I wonder why it hadn't been invented yet.
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by katttrrr on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @12:39PM (#20516937)
Aren't those ideas the ones that are always the most successful businessess too?
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by kleer001 on Thursday July 25, 2019 @12:36PM (#20526821)
If one can continue to crank out those simple genius ideas, yes. And if one has the rest of the skills necessary to run a business.
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by porker on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @02:23PM (#20518092)
Lovely work! Can we have arrows too please? So we can build the flow between screens into the document
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by social_quotient on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @04:34PM (#20519367)
Seems like if this was to become a product/service you could offer a service like https://www.uistencils.com/ but with custom layouts.
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by ramon on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @09:43AM (#20515148)
Very cool! Now I want one which is a full online version :)
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by lucasverra on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @11:17AM (#20516087)
yay ! direct import into marvel app :)

Also, might be due to inexperience in the field but why import/export in JSON ?

Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by tracker1 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:54PM (#20517775)
JSON is a very lightweight text serialization that can closely resemble your in-memory object structure. By Contrast XML support way more methods of serialization that are more complex and/or less clear in practice.

They could use a different file extension and even gzip the file as well. I often use line separated JSON+GZ as an interchange format for records.

Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by vcoelho on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:53PM (#20517769)
So you can load previous configured pages with its settings and mockups.
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by ramon on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @07:07PM (#20521009)
Dude imagine this: Canvas on top of this with free drawing and save the results in json-gz all in frontend technology. Save trees, unleash creativity!
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by lucasverra on Thursday July 25, 2019 @03:10AM (#20523315)
Could hand made mockups (a la apple pen) be stored in json and be reproduced flawlessly ?
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by reaperducer on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @09:26PM (#20521826)
This could be useful.

For all of the electronic communication in my company, once things get to a certain level of management, they want to see stuff on paper.

Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by tsieling on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @12:25PM (#20516807)
This is really well done. And +1 for the suggestion of placeholder spaces for notes. Great work, thank you for sharing this.
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by eg312 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @02:00PM (#20517832)
Thanks! The Notes component is on the to-do list
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by notadoc on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @03:31PM (#20518786)
This is a great idea.

You could probably turn this into a product if you were to print out notebooks where pages were the templates.

Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by roldie on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @11:53AM (#20516474)
This is fantastic! Very useful, especially for those of us who still think best with pen and paper.
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by sgt on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @05:06PM (#20519702)
Cool, although I noticed the output PDF is fairly blurry. Can this be made crisper?
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by eg312 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @05:26PM (#20519917)
The blurriness is a problem… With the pdf library I’m using (jsPDF) I cannot export the SVG directly so I convert it to an image and then embed the image in the pdf. To solve the problem, I can increase the converted image’s resolution but then the pdf becomes huge (~20 MB, for example). There is a ‘quality’ parameter in the code, maybe I’ll expose it in the UI and you can find an optimum value. I’ll try to find a way to export or ‘write’ the svg data directly in the pdf, I think it’s the best way to do it.
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by bootloop on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @06:47PM (#20520826)
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by sleepychu on Thursday July 25, 2019 @05:59AM (#20524042)
Can you convert to eps from the SVG and then whack the eps into a PDF?
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by rhcom2 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:40PM (#20517590)
Is it common to use jQuery with React? I'm relatively new to React.
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by baddox on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:51PM (#20517747)
I don't think it's common to start a new project with both jQuery and React, or actively develop jQuery and React modules in the same project, but it is probably quite common for projects that initially used jQuery to gradually move modules to React.
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by vcoelho on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:56PM (#20517796)
Not recommended, but they are compatible. The important is to achieve your goal with whichever tools you currently have.
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by pluma on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @04:50PM (#20519522)
It's possible. It's not something you normally intend to do in a new project but it's possible to use jQuery and other libraries inside React and it's handy when working with legacy code.
Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by hpen on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @04:20PM (#20519232)
Yes it’s common and you can use it. Of course there is also the fetch api.

If it’s a startup project just use whatever your most familiar with and change it when/ if it becomes a problem.

Re:Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wirefr... by mozillamaxx on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @12:02PM (#20516580)
Love it. Working out UI issues analog like this really helps sometimes!