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Confluence Page export to PDF cuts off left edge?

Mac Newbold

I have a simple confluence page. No tables, just a table of contents at the top and some header hierarchy. Single column layout. When I export to PDF, all but the top header have the leftmost character or two cut off in the margin of the page. Any ideas why or how to fix it?

Accepted answers

Steve Ostopchuck

If it's of help to anyone, the below PDF Stylesheet CSS is fixing the issue for me:

(Space settings -> Look and Feel -> PDF Stylesheet)

@pagetTeng
{
size: 216mm 279mm;
margin: 6mm;
}

div.wiki-content {
width: 190mm !important;
align-self: center !important;
margin: 18px !important;
}

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Shannon S

Mac,

Can you show us an example of what it looks like? Did you add any PDF Export customizations? What version of Confluence are you running?

Shannon

Mac Newbold

Here are two examples. One when I export PDF using "Single Column" layout, which cuts off left edge, and one where the only change is to switch to "Full Width" layout, which works fine on paper, but is not very usable when viewed online on a wide screen, because it makes extremely long lines that are hard to read.

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Shannon S

Thanks, Mac.

I tried to replicate this on my Confluence instance, single column layout, but I'm not able to.

Can you confirm your Confluence version? Maybe that makes a difference. Also, can you let me know if it happens on all pages or only certain ones? Do you have all custom PDF export CSS turned off?

Regards,

Shannon

Mac Newbold

We're using the Cloud version:

1000.0.0-81f15a8ab0a

No custom PDF export stuff, just totally vanilla.

Laura Ortiz

Any updates? I wonder if there's a way to "fix" this by adding some CSS rules to the PDF Stylesheet.

Shannon S

Hi Laura,

If you watch the bug ticket linked (CONFCLOUD-59605), then you will receive any updates there once there is progress or any further workarounds.

If you want, you could also comment there with your question above about adding CSS rules; perhaps someone is able to help come up with a workaround using that theory.

Regards,

Shannon

Steve Ostopchuck

If it's of help to anyone, the below PDF Stylesheet CSS is fixing the issue for me:

(Space settings -> Look and Feel -> PDF Stylesheet)

@pagetTeng
{
size: 216mm 279mm;
margin: 6mm;
}

div.wiki-content {
width: 190mm !important;
align-self: center !important;
margin: 18px !important;
}

jayant yadav

Thanks for the code! saved me a lot of time to change each page layout in order to export to PDF.

Jim Brashears

Saved me lots of time as well

James Garford_1refti

Thanks Steve!

Jonathan Holdsworth

This is still broken a year later.

If the person you want to work with doesnt have a confluence licence or is a low level user there is literally nothing you can do to collaborate with them. I have invested so much time into Confluence I want to cry. I agree with Jordan Smith from over a year ago, this destroys the value of confluence.

Carolina Rizzotto

agreed! i'm running into the same issue and it's ridiculous. when you export into Word doc though, you get the entire text... it just messes up the entire formatting of the document, which doubles up the work.

Gregory Nash

It looks like you linked the wrong bug ticket. Here's the one that I'm watching:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-68183

Mitch Flindell

Hi there Atlassian, we have this issue on every PDF export we do in our team of 20. We're using confluence cloud and ive seen this issue for the last 3 months.

Is there really nothing you can do? It seems like a pretty simple and important thing to fix.

Cheers, have a lovely day

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Shannon S

Whoops! Thank you for pointing that out, @Gregory Nash!

Jeff Krigstein

Hi Shannon,

I can confirm that this issue is still happening for us as well.

Even with the top CSS fix applied, it aligns the left side of the page but still cuts off on the right.

I agree with Greg and Jordan's frustration. A feature that doesn't work as indented isn't available.

Is there any news on this being fixed? Thanks for any information you can provide us with.

For reference, we are using Cloud.

-Jeff

norton

Hi Jeff,

Just in case you haven't found a solution yet. I had the same problem with the right side being cut off with the above fix. I just edited the CSS since the page widths minus the margins were wrong. Code is below that worked for me, hope it helps.

{
size: 216mm 279mm;
margin: 6mm;
}

div.wiki-content {
width: 168mm !important;
align-self: center !important;
margin: 18px !important;
}

Tom Vian

Worked perfectly - thanks

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