Printing Webi report as PDF

Hey Guys!!

When I save a webi report as PDF and want to print it, I am having some issues.

The report has a good number of columns but when I change the orientation of the page to landscape and 8.5x14 (in pdf print screen), the columns do not stretch to cover entire size of the legal paper. It stays in portrait and 8.5x11.

The default settings in webi are landscape and letter.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.


MHassan (BOB member since 2013-11-19)

change the settings in the page setup in webi to what you want them to be. those will determine the page size in the pdf or printout. you can use the fit to 1 page wide option in here and leave the fit to pages tall option blank.


erik.stenson :us: (BOB member since 2012-07-30)

Hi,

That is exactly what I have, 1 page width and height is automatic.

When I save as PDF I have to manually set 8.5x14 but the report itself does not stretch out to fit the page size, it stays in original form.


MHassan (BOB member since 2013-11-19)

set the page size in webi


erik.stenson :us: (BOB member since 2012-07-30)

WEBI export options are pretty shocking to be fair. Fit to page(s) generally works best, but I often find I need to move tables/charts around to get it to look reasonable and then, generally speaking the report is only good for export - ie it doesn’t render well from Launchpad.

Thanks,


Thomas Evans :new_zealand: (BOB member since 2013-10-17)

That’s what seems to be the general lesson here. It is really bad exporting to PDF. I have recommended printing from Excel at the moment although you lose header and footer.

I’m sure it is just a setting that needs to be found and set.

Thanks Guys!!!


MHassan (BOB member since 2013-11-19)