PDF Export for dashboard with a table in it exceeding width of the page

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Hi if the length of the columns exceed the width of the PDF report can it still be downloaded as a pdf without losing the snapshot of all the columns?

for instance my dashboard contains multiple visuals and it also contains a table which has 20+ columns. The PDF I export only shows what can fit into a pdf page and rest of the columns don’t show up.
any solution to this ?
does Paginated report solve this issue?

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I don’t think there is a current work around for your use case.

How would you want it? Like on a second page with the rest of the columns?

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Yes on the next page with the rest of the columns is what I was looking for

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With paginated reports, you do have the ability to print out in landscape format, and different page sizes (A3 for example gives you a lot of room. I suspect this should give you the flexibility to present all of the data on a single report

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Hi @mukarramkhan95,
We hope the reply from @jhnjos resolved your question. And if it did, please help the community by marking the reply as a “Solution.”
Many Thanks,
Andrew

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HI @abacon
it really isn’t a solution to be honest as there is no built in functionality for it.

I think it’s a solution quicksight team could work on.
I do have a suggestion for this.

Instead of separate pdf and excel export quicksight could look into adding a functionality where we can download the entire dashboard into excel format.

Like the visuals at the top
and the table with multiple columns below that

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Currently horizontal pagination is not supported, couple of workarounds is to :

  • Make use of the layout option to use a higher width to render. That will make the pdf effectively more dense and afford space for more columns.
  • Resize columns to fit more
  • Use a smaller font size for the table.

Having said that, I have noted this in our internal feature request tracker.