topic Re: Print as PDF? in Developer

Print as PDF?

brendaivett — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:05:02 GMT

Hi,

Is there a way to print a Power BI Desktop report as a PDF? I know could get a print screen, but I wonder if I can print it directly as a PDF.

Thanks!

Brenda

Re: Print as PDF?

ianbarker — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 03:23:24 GMT

@brendaivett there is the ability to do a standard print.

If you have a PDF print driver installed such as CutePDF, you can simply print to you PDF printer which will generate a PDF for you.

Re: Print as PDF?

brendaivett — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 13:24:51 GMT

Thanks @ianbarker, and sorry if this is not too obvious to me, as I'm really new with Power BI, but from the Power BI Desktop, where I create the report, I don't see anywhere the printing option, I see import, export, save, etc. but not printing, am I missing something?

Brenda

Re: Print as PDF?

ianbarker — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 13:34:18 GMT

@brendaivett I'm really sorry, I should have mentioned that the print option is currently only available in Power BI Online. You would need to publish your report there first.

Re: Print as PDF?

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 13:34:57 GMT

@brendaivett The out of box functionality doesn't support that from the Desktop. The print option is only available from the Power BI Service.

Re: Print as PDF?

brendaivett — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 13:36:03 GMT

Thanks a lot @Anonymous, @ianbarker, I do still appreciate your responses.

Brenda

Re: Print as PDF?

dolss1 — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 15:11:16 GMT

We found if you use Chrome and the "Save As PDF" option,

(important- with background graphics) you can get a pretty good print.

Re: Print as PDF?

AndrewDang — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 20:58:47 GMT

@dolss1; @brendaivett; @Anonymous; @ianbarker

I have an issue that it only print my dashboard at 5% scaled down. Would you please help.

Re: Print as PDF?

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:01:59 GMT

@AndrewDang What browser are you using? I don't see the "Scale" option. What happens if you increase that? Chrome, IE, Edge - I can't get that to display, and the functionality works in all.

If it isn't that, is the report page a custom size, or just default?

Re: Print as PDF?

AndrewDang — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 22:04:20 GMT

@Anonymous

I had tried both Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. I had the same issue with both.

Thanks;

Andrew

Re: Print as PDF?

jasminwing — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 14:56:55 GMT

I have this same problem. It's very frustrating as I have to do a screenshot of every page of a dashboard to produce a 'moment in time' record of the figures.

Would be great to know if there is a solution now?

Thanks

Re: Print as PDF?

pfrazho — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:23:30 GMT

I installed Chrome and do not see the Save as PDF option. How do I get to that option?

Re: Print as PDF?

jaure — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 08:09:45 GMT

What hapens if you have a report with more than one page?
Can I export, save... the report ans PDF?

Thanks in advance!
Xabi

Re: Print as PDF?

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 14:27:09 GMT

Nope. Stinks, right?

Re: Print as PDF?

JPBTech — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 23:17:20 GMT

Check out this short tutorial: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-print

Re: Print as PDF?

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:31:18 GMT

That tutorial is irrelevant. Try using that to help you print a multi-page list.

Microsoft refuses to rename the "Print" function in Power BI. It needs to be called "Print Screenshot".

Re: Print as PDF?

Rick4him — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:55:10 GMT

Hi, Unless I am mistaken and I hope I am as we have been waiting for this option. What I see is this print option is just a fancy print screen. It does not actually print the visuals with their data. Example, if you have a matrix table with more rows than what will fit on the screen, you only get the printed view of what fit on the screen. While I suppose for graphical representations this is good, but for data and graphical, it is not very helpful. I thought the print option would be more like printing from Excel, too wide, extra pages, too long extra pages. It seems this option should expose to the visuals a print option method as they have data set. Seems it would be hard (probably not impossible) to do it generically. Does anyone know if Tableau or the other "data visualization" software allows printing? Thanks, Rick

Re: Print as PDF?

Marineide — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:25:54 GMT

I saved a report from Power BI to PDF by clicking "Ctrl and P" keys. I was on my desktop version.

Re: Print as PDF?

iversa — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:20:10 GMT

Coming here for the same thing. I wonder is there is anyone at Microsoft reading this? I see many users making this request

Re: Print as PDF?

sharan_sy — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 18:17:34 GMT

Yes ,it worked fine with CTRL + P from desktop version .You can either save the PDF or print it directly .