PDF Export - Header Background Image/Logo

[Volker Weinreich]

Hello,

up to now, we have displayed a background image in the header of our exported PDFs that covers the entire width. This also worked on Confluence Server in the single export. In addition, a logo is displayed for space exports.
Can anyone tell me what I need to do to make this work in Confluence Cloud (besides paid apps)? No matter whether Legacy or New Editor, with or without @page, single or space export.

I already know these pages:

https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/customize-exports-to-pdf/

https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/advanced-pdf-export-customizations/ 

(The descriptions given here are outdated.)

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Exported-PDFs-now-more-accurately-match-Confluence-pages/ba-p/2130971 

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-76035 

Thanks,

Volker

[Greg Landgraf]

this used to work by exporting the space - seems to be broken now. i also can not use the Choose pages to export anymore and only export a selectoin of pages - the entire space gets exported.

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Volker Weinreich I don't need to generate PDFs from Confluence, but based on the number of questions people post here related to issues with headers, footers, and page breaks in generated PDFs, my process if I needed to make a PDF of my Confluence content would be:

1. Export from Confluence to Word.
2. Change the style definitions to the fonts, sizes, colors, paragraph spacing, etc. that I want (or apply a template where I already have these defined).
3. Adjust the page size and margins, as needed.
4. Insert landscape sections where I need wider pages to display wide tables or images.
5. Add the headers and footers that I want.
6. Replace/add my own Title page, TOC, and other front matter or back matter pages.
7. Start from the beginning and make sure my pages break where I want them to (tip: add the Paragraph keep with next and Paragraph page break before commands to the Quick Access Toolbar in Word).
8. Generate a PDF from Word.

[Volker Weinreich]

Hello @Barbara Szczesniak

thank you for your answer. Yes, I have of course also considered the idea of exporting a Word document first and then creating a PDF from it. But it takes too much work.

I'm trying to use Confluence as a halfway professional single source medium. This means, for example, that the pages that I export as PDFs consist of several other pages and the content is exported in different formats and in different contexts. The whole process is automated. I don't want to have to intervene any more, but rather define it correctly once. If someone changes something in the content, I don't want to have to manually create a new PDF every time. But since there aren't very many PDFs, I want to be able to do it myself with the on-board tools of Confluence without having to buy an app.