You can print any plan in Storypark, or download it to save as a PDF file. This is especially useful for educators who are required to display planning in their service, or as a way of keeping a record of the plan offline.
Generate PDF
In any plan you wish to print or download, tap the 'Print/PDF' button in the blue menu bar at the top.
This will create a PDF file of your plan that opens in your browser window.
Download the plan
To save the PDF of the plan, click on the download button (arrow pointing down) to save the PDF file to your computer.
Chrome:
Safari:
Print the plan
Once a PDF has been generated, on the Chrome browser you can print the plan by clicking on the printer button:
On the Safari browser, you can download the plan first, open up the plan on your desktop, and select Print from the File menu.
Tips for printing plans
Plan size
Plans will adjust in size to fit horizontally on the paper. So if you have three columns, each column will be relatively wide taking up one third the width of the page, whereas if you have six columns, each column will be smaller.
If you are making a plan on Storypark with the intention of printing it, plans with fewer columns (ideally three or four) will be more readable in print form.
If your plan runs has many rows and runs longer vertically than a standard A3 size, it will add more pages to your PDF while retaining the horizontal fit.
Every service has different print needs so it would pay to experiment with various column numbers and plan lengths until you're happy with how it prints.
💡 If you're printing a plan with the purpose of engaging parents or staff at your service, you can add an extra blank column in your plan to give people a space to write on it.
Later, you could even transcribe these comments back into the plan in Storypark if you wish to keep them as a record.
Fitting to page
Below is what we recommend with setting up your printer options when you print the plan:
Landscape format
If printing on A4 paper select 'Fit to page' (or scale to 71% which is the size that an A3 fits on an A4 page).
This can usually be adjusted in the preview page when you print:
Chrome:
Safari:
This article explains how you can remove the number of pages, date, title etc. that the browser applies to the headers and footers of each printed page by default.