I prepared a mid-length outline last night and printed it. The printed document was 99 pages long. The typeface was giant and extended off the pages and the last 35 or so pages were more or less blank with column lines on them.
So printing a useful document out of the app wasn’t going to happen. How else could I do this? There was no “save as” option in the file menu or anywhere I could find (I was working from the SetApp version of Bike - maybe that was the reason). In any event, I printed it to PDF and got the same thing in a different file format. Jumbo-sized letters, 99 pages. My PDF apps (I tried a couple, including Acrobat DC) couldn’t shrink the font down to human size. In retrospect, I see that I could have done a “select all” and pasted it into a text editor - which shrank my 99 pages down to 10, but being able to find and use a “save as” function would have been nice, as would having some way to control at least the font size in the outline. The app usage instructions tell me that I can save to OPML, PDF, or txt and that the native file format is HTML (which would have been news to Brave, which didn’t recognize it.
Did I miss something in my attempts or is this just the way things are with the app at the moment?
That goal is to print the outline you see… including expand/collapse state, focus state, and text size. To print in a smaller font you can adjust what you see by View > Text Size > Zoom Out.
Quite possibly I have something wrong with the font sizing/resolution interplay, but you can get a pretty normal print size with Zoom Out.
Blank lines at end of document… I think you must have had more indentation in your outline then there was room on the page for layout. In that case the indented paragraphs end up laying out the text 1 char per line (and out of print region).
(This problem might go away if you print using smaller size)
It’s confusing, but “Save As…” mostly left standard Cocoa macOS apps ~15 years ago.
The “new apple way” is you are supposed to “Duplicate” and then “Save”… OR if when showing the expanded File menu you press on the Option key, then the “Duplicate” menu changes to “Save As”. This is often complained about, but it’s also the behavior provided by the standard macOS framework and apps for many years now. Just yesterday I saw a post where someone claimed this change was the moment “Apple went bad!”. It is confusing to many.
It is HTML, but the file extension is .bike, because it’s a specific subset of HTML. It’s likely that Brave requires you change the file extension from .bike to .html … once you do that I think Brave should open it.
Or I guess you have found, but you can use Edit > Copy > … to get outline in various formats.