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Released Documents will contain the standard eDoc header and the immutable embedded snapshot content.
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Appendix - Additional Resources
A. Document Control and Publishing for External PDF Documents
The Snapshot feature can also be used to route, review, approve and publish any external PDF file as a controlled document. This may be useful for teams whose document sources are in alternate formats and they do not want to convert or edit them in Confluence. If the source can be converted to PDF, it can be uploaded to eDoc as a Snapshot.
B. Tuning the PDF Export
Atlassian Confluence cloud has limited support for customizing the PDF page export. For example the default margins of the generated PDF can be reduced to have the snapshot PDF have less white space around it.
Confluence Cloud introduced a new PDF export engine in 2023 that improved some of the page rendering but users lost some of the flexibility and supported customizations. Below are 2 examples for the old engine and new engine. Recommend trying both to see which works best for you.
Apply custom PDF export configuration in Confluence Space Settings > Look and Feel > PDF Export > PDF Stylesheet for the space your working copies are stored.
Confluence New PDF Export Engine
| Code Block |
|---|
/* Adjust PDF export to reduce page margins for eDoc Snapshots */
@page {
margin: 0mm;
} |
Confluence Legacy PDF Export Engine
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/* Adjust PDF export to reduce page margins and hide title for eDoc Snapshots */
@page {
margin: 0mm;
/* including this forces Confluence to fall back to legacy engine */
@top-center { font-size: 8pt; }
}
.pagetitle h1 { display: none; } /* hide the page title */ |
Notes
See https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/customize-exports-to-pdf/ for more information on supported PDF customizations.
Atlassian is working on improving the new engine.
Limitation - The Jira macro only renders an table of Jira issues in the New PDF engine.
Alternative PDF Export Apps
There are additional PDF Export apps available in the marketplace that may provide additional options if the built-in PDF export does not meet your team’s needs.