I’m working on a small browser-based tool called 3D Artist PDF Toolkit.
It is made for Blender users, freelance 3D artists, and small studios who need to create clean PDF reports for client projects, revisions, model previews, asset delivery, and project documentation.
The goal is to make it easier to organize screenshots, notes, project details, and revision comments into a professional PDF report without manually building everything in Word or Canva.
I’m looking for honest feedback from Blender artists:
Would this be useful in your workflow?
What features would you expect in a PDF report tool for 3D projects?
Hello ! Do you have a screenshot of an actual possible pdf generated with blender content ?
This can be helpful and I can give some general highlights of what is generally needed.
I think one of the key issue with PDF is that they are hard to modify/annotate for a client.
Google docs are great for that because multiple people can work on the same document, and they can comment / discuss.
Another key point is revision, because it’s generally about iterating, you don’t want to send a new PDF each time there is a change. But rather keeping all the version at hand so it’s possible to compare and keep track of previous comments.
Generally an established studio have dedicated tools for that, like kitsu or shotgrid/flow . But the second best option is something like google doc.
I think there is another option that is like google doc but with more customization out there.
Anyway, providing a good presentation is a way to be more professional, google doc is somehow a bit generic. But for now I don’t see a lot of tools that would allow some form of customization/clean presentation while also allowing to simplify the review process.
Generally you want to favor review process, and when it comes to clean presentation you might want to take the time to really make the presentation yourself and customize it to avoid automated / generic formatting.
So is your tool useful ? well maybe, people have different needs and that can fill a gap, but it doesn’t seem to comply with all the needs interactions with clients could require.
That said, having a quick video of the process, and what the final pdf could look like might help to give more useful feedback !