Hi Lech,
Thanks for the response and the developer menu tip for grabbing object ids, that's indeed very useful!
Unfortunately I haven't put in the time to become a pro at NPrinting yet - some of it is frustration/inexperience like you said and some of it is due to me being the only Qlik stack person in the company until recently.
We don't have many NPrinting solutions in production, but we do see it as a tool with huge potential. For example, the NPrinting On Demand extension could be a game changer for us, since many users like to have their customized report summarized in a .pdf to share (and the native "Export sheet to pdf" feature is terrible). In theory, our use case for NPrinting is quite simple, basically compile the main existing charts/visualizations in our Sense dashboards and fit them neatly in a .pdf page.
Your point is valid, and I do understand that each tool has its learning curve. With Qlik Sense, I felt it was much easier to get to a working, good looking dashboard, but to get a similar result in NPrinting there's a lot of tweaking that it almost feels like double the work, even though I have the chart/visualization ready in Sense. It's not necessarily that it's hard, it's just time consuming and a little annoying. Below are some examples:
For example, I feel like it's hard to get a feel for what fits and what doesn't in a page. This might be a stupid question, but when does the page break in the PixelPerfect template? Is there any indicator I'm missing?
For charts, sometimes I have to make the object way bigger than I'd like to because the legend doesn't show up.
When I try to use a table object as a image, the # of rows in the table gets reduced when I reduce its size horizontally, when there is clearly room for more rows. I tried my hand at creating tables with Detail Reports, but I also found them complicated to build and customize.
Also the fact that there's no support for themes (the PixelPerfect reports go back to the default color palette which sucks in my opinion).
Since you seem to be very experienced with NPrinting I would love to hear your thoughts (and more "hacks" like the developer menu). Hell, maybe some of my concerns are even already addressed in more recent versions.
Thanks again (sorry for the long post)!
