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Sorry, @Heather Kendall , I haven't personally found one yet, but then I'm a technical writer and do things completely differently: I work with other technical writers to document what SMEs know in professional tech comm software, such as FrameMaker, InDesign, Flare, RoboHelp, XHTML, and/or HTML+CSS. A format + tool that…

Put another way, Confluence by itself without additional tools is a terrible tool for tracking multi-page documents. And, like a steel trap, content goes in Confluence but can't come out without additional tools to help the output since Confluence outputs only outdated Word and non-ADA compliant PDF files.

Hi Roman, I do feel your pain. Unfortunately, I have no additional wisdom to add beyond what Bill Bailey said: no copying-pasting or you'll get junk. It's an epic fail on the part of Atlassian, because training developers to not copy-paste is not a solution to bad software design on the part of Atlassian. Developers are…

Love this work-around! Thanks!

Hm. That's a thought... I can't swear nobody's been copying from one Confluence page to another... We know better than to copy from Word or the Internet or anything, but I suppose I haven't specifically prohibited copying from one page to another within Confluence. I'll look into that, thanks! It's definitely not browser…

Thanks, @Peter Andersen , that helps some! (Every little bit, right?) Thank you!

Thanks, @Steve Lewis! That's a very useful solution when you are the one who is doing the pasting of text with unwanted formatting, but not so helpful when someone has previously pasted a formatted mess that needs to be cleaned up after-the-fact without removing ALL formatting unilaterally. :-) Still, it might help some…

Is there a shortcut for "Clear formatting" (for removing all formatting from text pasted from elsewhere)? I super-need one!

Indeed, I found the same thing. They may not be telling us the whole tale. :-)

See my discussion https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-discussions/PDF-Export-Confluence-does-not-support-CSS-3-only-2-1/td-p/1202508

See my discussion https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-discussions/PDF-Export-Confluence-does-not-support-CSS-3-only-2-1/td-p/1202508

See my discussion https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-discussions/PDF-Export-Confluence-does-not-support-CSS-3-only-2-1/td-p/1202508

See my discussion https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-discussions/PDF-Export-Confluence-does-not-support-CSS-3-only-2-1/td-p/1202508

WOW! Thank you @Herve Frydlender This helps tremendously! Thank you so much. It's not the answer to all of my problems, but gets me much closer to my endpoint. I really appreciate this. (The word-wrap is indeed the key I was missing.) Cheers!

@Kevin Marlowe Thank you so much for sharing your code! Regrettably, this doesn't help me, however. I've been testing versions of this for a few days now, on and off. And so my search continues. Thanks for your help, however, as this might solve someone else's problem! --Laura Here's what I'm seeing... The code you…

Hello @Merve Nur Bas , Vielen dank! Yep, it was a really stupid question and I think I was too used to the Windows model of creating the container and then putting objects into it. Your answer is perfect: in both languages. LOL! Made my day. Let's stick to English, though, because my German is even worse. Thanks again…

Sorry, @Merve Nur Bas . This is such a stupid question, I'm sorry I know it must be, and I probably just need to know what access permissions to request so that the "create a folder" option button or menu item is available to me. I figured it would have a simple answer, though, so here are all the details. My working file…

@Sharon Metzger and @Robert Lauriston I did understand Robert, but as I say the Scroll PDF Exporter licensing has been thoroughly researched and found to be prohibitively expensive by thousands for my company. I'm not sure why my company is being given a price so different from yours, but that is a closed issue. Wish me…

Thanks, @Robert Lauriston . I'm just focusing on getting Confluence's basic functionality to work. I'll troubleshoot the existing tables and iterate to solutions for the content we have. I'm getting no responses from Confluence at all on this, unfortunately, so apparently they are ignoring the issues with their PDF export…

@Sharon Metzger , wow, good catch, I'll look into that about the "role" tags: sorry I didn't catch that myself. Thanks much! I do think your answers will help many folks who can afford the Scroll PDF Exporter pricetag. :-) I wish Confluence would just use and parse standard, validating CSS, like they're supposed to per…

Thanks, @Matt Reiner _K15t_ . That's good to know about itextpdf. @Sharon Metzger thanks, that sounds perfect for some folks who may be looking for this answer and already have Scroll PDF Exporter! It sounds like a great tool for some users who can afford it; numerous folks have recommended it for solving all kinds of bugs…

@HuseinA Thanks much for your link to confluencedefaultpdf.css, that is just what I was looking for but not finding anywhere. I think it will solve a bunch of problems for me. Cheers!