Layouts for PDF Exports

Introduction

The Pdf export view of each Layout allows to configure the layout that will be rendered when exporting to PDF

How to edit the PDF view

Selecting the PDF view

Select the desired Layout, then use the view selector to select Pdf Export :

Using page guides

The canvas displays page guides as an overlay :

*Note : This is displayed in the Designer only, to guide the configuration.

*Note : There is a slight difference between the position of this overlay and the actual end of page in the PDF exports.
This is for a simple geometrical reason : the overlay is displayed between two canvas square guides, but the page export formats (A3, A4, etc) have a size ratio that cannot be reduced to a simple integer ratio.

Default behaviors

Automatic layout

When creating Widgets from another view (the Desktop view for example), the Pdf Export layout is generated automatically depending on available space and widget size.
Often, you may need to later tweak this automatic PDF layout manually in order to create a good-looking PDF export.

*It is a good idea to verify the PDF layout before publishing, and after any change.
This will ensure that you get a good-looking PDF export.

Overlapping pages

When a Widget is configured to overlap multiple pages, it will be resized automatically during the PDF export, to span a single page only.

Important : Widgets with hidden content

Some widgets have behaviors that allows them to hide some of their content :

• a Grid widget with pagination
• a Doughnut legend with pagination
• etc
  

!When the PDF generation engine detects that such a situation occurs, then the Widget is removed from its current position in the layout, and moved to its own full page in the PDF.

*Note : This is often depending on the responsive behavior of the widget, so it may be behaving differently with the Desktop viewing conditions and the Pdf export size and DPI.

Important : Incompatible Widget types

Some Widget types are incompatible with the PDF export functionality.
Those Widgets will simply be ignored during the PDF export, and are automatically made invisible on the Pdf export view.

The incompatible Widget types are :

• PDF Viewer
• Alpana Runtime Connection Input Grid
• Embed
  

Preview

When the selected view is the Pdf export, then the Preview button shows the PDF export.

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