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 pagination

(updated in 2020 R2)

In the Pdf export, Widgets are laid out on multiple pages.
The view displays the layout one page at a time.

Browsing pages

To browse between pages, you can scroll with the mouse or click on the page number :

Moving a Widget across pages

To move a Widget to the next page, drag it to the bottom of the view and onto the Send to next page message that appears :

To move a Widget to the previous page, drag it to the top of the view and onto the Send to previous page message that appears :

Adding a new page

To add a new page, go to the last page and move a Widget to the next page.

Removing a page

To remove the last pages, remove all widgets from the desired pages.

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
  

Reorder Widgets

We can reorder widgets as followed if needed on pdf layout to quickly compact widgets all together.

Preview

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

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