Format Page to DIN A4

Question

The appearance of the page in the browser is fine, but after printing it looks overflowed. The formatting for a DIN A4 sheet is simply not available. In addition, reading the page in the browser is difficult, because the text goes too long to the edges.

In order to be able to read faster and more fluently, it would be nice if you could limit the page to a DIN A4 size.

Everything would then read more fluently like in a book, which is an advantage for a lot of documentation.

Is there an option to format the page to a DIN A4 format?

Thank you in advance.

Mario Carabelli · Accepted Answer

Hi and welcome @sonara-smoother

After studying your question it seems you have two issues.

The first one is how to print confluence content in a formatted way that it looks nice on a print-out.

For this issue I would recommend you to do a pdf-export of the documentation space or of the single pages in question (How-to is found here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/export-content-to-word-pdf-html-and-xml-724764824.html).

The standard pdf export does a reasonable job of formatting and you can change the layout of the resulting pdf if you follow this documentation (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/customize-exports-to-pdf-190480945.html).

The other issue you seemingly have is the readability of documentation pages in the browser.

I agree that the standard page layout is to wide to be read easily (especially on big screens). It is in my opinion more suited for homepage/dashboard designs.
To mitigate this problem on documentation pages or blogs you can use page layouts (https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf613/page-layouts-columns-and-sections-964960524.html) and use the layout with one wide column in the middle and two small columns on the side. If you add your content in the middle column the result is in moste cases "good enough" so that you don't have to worry about layout any more and can focus on the content.

I hope this advie helps you and best of luck with your further use of confluence. Feel free to ask more questions if my answer missed the mark or wasn't understandable for you :)

With kind regards,
Mario Carabelli