Hi everyone,
I'm currently using Metabase version 0.55.80, but this issue started happening at some point during the recent updates.
Previously, when exporting dashboards to PDF, Metabase would correctly generate them in landscape orientation if the dashboard was wide. However, in the more recent versions, all PDFs are being exported in portrait mode only, even for dashboards that clearly require a landscape layout.
I've reviewed the settings but couldn't find any option to control or force the page orientation during export. Has anyone else noticed this behavior? Is there any parameter, flag, or workaround to bring back the landscape export?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Hi Alex,
I checked this and couldn’t reproduce it but I think that maybe you are seeing this with dashboards that don’t have full width enable. Can you check if that is the case?
I did see that when you have a dashboard with full width, the PDF export is horizontal and when the full width is disable the export is vertical
Hi Pierinasalinas,
Thanks for the suggestion.
I've confirmed that the dashboard is already set to "full width," but the PDF export unfortunately still comes out in portrait mode.
I'm attaching a couple of screenshots to show you what I mean: one with the full-width setting enabled and another showing the vertical PDF output.
Let me know if you have any other ideas.
Best,
Alex
Is anyone else seeing this issue? I’ve still got it after months (v0.56.8).
What Web browser are you using when you download the PDF?
I have attempted to do this using four different browsers (Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, and Opera), but in every case, the document is generated in portrait mode. I need it to be in landscape mode.
Is this happening to you too?
Same here. I tested on Safari and Chrome on macOS and Chrome on Windows (10). The image that’s generated scales with the size of the browser window, but always generates in portrait orientation. I can use macOS print settings to rearrange it into landscape, and it’s a very manual process, but no such luck on Windows.
The ‘Full width’ dashboard setting controls whether you can expand the browser window out to get a “wide” image generation, but doesn’t control the orientation.
I’d have to go back through the changelogs to see when this changed, but I suspect at some point Metabase switched from rendering PDFs in-Metabase to in-browser, and the in-browser functions provide nowhere near the level of control required.
It also should be noted that the in-browser PDF generation is broken on Firefox. This is a Firefox issue and not Metabase-specific, but anyone reading this thread later should know.
Got it, thank you for clarifying! I really appreciate you taking the time to investigate and explain the issue. It's good to know it's a known limitation and not something I was doing wrong.
