PDF layouts won't work

Question

Hello,

I was trying to set up a footer for our pdf export. And for testing purposes I used very simple HTML and CSS codes, but they won't show up in the exported pdf file.  I used this documentation already to set it up:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf56/exporting-confluence-pages-and-spaces-to-pdf-658736967.html

https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf56/advanced-pdf-export-customisations-658736969.html

https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf56/customising-exports-to-pdf-658736968.html

I also tried it on our first confluence instance and I had the same result. Nothing showed up in the exported file.

Thank you in advance,

Ingo Herbrich

AnnWorley · Answer

Thanks for the update. According to our doc, Customize Exports to PDF, it is working as expected:

* PDF customization only applies to space exports (not single page exports via Tools > Export to PDF)

I was not surprised to see a suggestion ticket open for this:

Provide ability to customize single-page PDF and Word exports

I noticed there aren't any comments, which did surprise me. I can see why you wouldn't want to grant access to space tools to everyone who needs to export a page to pdf.

If you vote or comment on the suggestion, you will be added to notifications so you will know when there is activity on the issue.

In the meantime, please check out this free add-on and let me know if it works for your use case: PDF Macros for Confluence

unknown · Answer

Update: When I export via Space Tools -> Export -> PDF -> Normal Export/Custom Export the HTML code is working. But it has to work on the page itself via the "..." menu. Everything else wouldn't make any sense for us.

unknown · Answer