Blurry PDF

Heyho,

we are new in the Metabase world :slight_smile:

We like the Dashboards and the fact, that we can create PDF reports of it. We want to ask, why are the exported PDFs blurry ? In the pictures below you can see the difference

We are using version 0.54.6 and in version 0.52.2 the exported PDF were in a weird shape, but sharper than the attached pdf.

Happy regards,
Tjorben

Hi there,

In case this helps, I found a hack/workaround that is worth trying:

If you open up the developer console of the browser while in the dashboard, and type window.devicePixelRatio = 3 (the default in my browser seems to be 2), then press Enter and then download the PDF, the file size should be larger and the quality should be better. Larger values yield better quality and larger exports.

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Hi, we introduced Metabase to present a business report to the managers of an insitution. They want to have the PDF in advance of the meetings. Now we realized that the exported dashboard elements are quite blured, leaving not the best impression. Marcos input of increasing the devicePixcelRation is great and works for me as developer, but I can’t expect the customer sending the PDFs to do this. It would be cool to define the PDF export quality in the settings, is that a big thing?

It’s specific to the browser, nothing to do with Metabase.

You could do a separate export using a headless browser or online service. Not a trivial solution though.